Sink or Swim; Scotland Are 10-0 Down On Aggregate From Their Last Two Games so When Romania Visit Hampden On Wednesday Night Berti Vogts Is Under Pressure to Bring Some Credibility Back to the Side. Alan Campbell Reports On a Critical Time for the National Coach

Sunday Herald › March 30, 2004

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RESULTS and performances under his regime provide almost irrefutable evidence that Berti Vogts is not the right man for the job, but the Scotland manager seems more concerned about an absence of leadership on the field than his own shortcomings off it.

Patience with routs such as those which have seen 10 goals shipped in the last two matches is wearing as thin as ice on a mid- summer pond. Heavy defeats in the friendlies against Romania at Hampden on Wednesday and Denmark next month would surely cause Vogts to slip under. Sunk with a great deal of trace.

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Sink or Swim; Scotland Are 10-0 Down On Aggregate From Their Last Two Games so When Romania Visit Hampden On Wednesday Night Berti Vogts Is Under Pressure to Bring Some Credibility Back to the Side. Alan Campbell Reports On a Critical Time for the National Coach

Yet, for a man under pressure there was almost a bravura performance from Vogts as he faced his media doubters at two separate press conferences last week. He may still not understand all of the questions, which in itself is an indictment, but his utterances were more spirited than of late.

There was much drumming on the tab...

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