Levein set for Scots post

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Yep, time is running out fast. The primary objective in his job is to get Scotland qualified & barring an intervention from some sort of god, that's looking rather unlikely.

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  stewarty said:

Hindsight is a wonderful thing and I can see the logic of Souness far more clearly now than I did when he was interviewed by the SFA.

 

If anything, the Burley and Levein eras (so far) have shown that any success we might find on the pitch will come from the leadership shown from the manager. Under Walter Smith, and to a lesser extent Alex McLeish, the players played for their country but also their manager. He fired them up, dressed them down, set them out as difficult to beat but gave them the belief that they posed a threat in attacking areas. In essence, Smith was Scotland's 12th man on the pitch. Under Burley it was like being two men down before the game even started; and under Levein, the performances have been uninspiring at best so he could be going down the same road.

 

I hope to be proven completely wrong by Levein I certainly have more hope under him than I ever did under Burley. Time, however, is running out.

 

If Levein had failed to beat Liechtenstein and played that abysmal formation against the Czech he would have been gone by now, if he wasn't then there is seriously something wrong up top but I doubt they'd have the balls to sack him during a campaign.