Keep the Home Fire Burning ; Preserving Hampden's New-Found Status As a Fortress Is Our Ticket to Germany and We've Got Themen for the Job Pressley As Berti Tries to Tip the Qualification Balance in Our Favour, a Trusted Lieutenant Vows to Reward His Efforts

Daily Mail › January 21, 2004

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EVENTS here in the Eternal City will certainly have some bearing on Scotland's World Cup success or failure.

Berti Vogts is desperately keen to stack the Group Five fixture list in our favour. To this end, he and the other two members of the SFA's travelling unholy trinity - chief executive David Taylor and chairman John McBeth - will attempt to master the dark arts of manipulation in a country which gave the world Machiavelli.

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Keep the Home Fire Burning ; Preserving Hampden's New-Found Status As a Fortress Is Our Ticket to Germany and We've Got Themen for the Job Pressley As Berti Tries to Tip the Qualification Balance in Our Favour, a Trusted Lieutenant Vows to Reward His Efforts

The players excitedly waiting for news of our potential path to Germany 2006 appreciate the efforts being made in the luxurious surroundings of Rome ' s Majestic Hotel.

But whether or not Scotland return to a major finals for the first time in eight years will ultimately rest on the dirty w...

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