Burley say it's win or bust

Published Date: 09 October 2008 GEORGE Burley yesterday underlined the significance of Scotland's match with Norway on Saturday by hinting strongly than anything less than victory would virtually sabotage his team's prospects of reaching the World Cup finals in two years' time. The national team manager stopped just short of using the phrase "win or bust", but made perfectly clear his conviction that failure to take all three points from the Group 9 qualifier would represent a setback that could prove to be irrecoverable. In a section of only five teams – the others are Holland, Macedonia and Iceland – with only eight matches to be played, Burley recognised the need not to lose more ground on his rivals for one of the top two places following the defeat by Macedonia in Skopje in the Scots' opening match last month. "I... [read full story]