Burns hits back at Vogts' critics

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Scotland assistant manager Tommy Burns says the former players who have called for Berti Vogts to be sacked should know better.

Gordon McQueen, Craig Burley and Charlie Nicholas have all been critical of Vogts' performance as manager of the Scotland team.

But Burns feels it is too easy for these pundits to be critical.

"There are so many people taking money to slaughter players and managers and some should know better," he said.

"A lot of them disregard the circumstances. Some of them disregard the circumstances because they have not been in the managerial side of the game.

"They have no perception of what it is like to be a manager of a passionate nation, with a passionate Press and having to make decisions.

"You pick a team and then lose five or six of those players. That's fine but all of those things are totally disregarded.

We're just looking for people to have an objective view Tommy Burns

"We cannot say what we feel about some of the things we have to read and hear from people who should know better.

"We have to suffer in silence and try to show a bit of dignity. It's easy to take money and criticise. So easy. And that's the big disappointment for me now."

Burns insists that sacking Vogts would be an exercise in futility.

"I think we would just go back to square one. So you bring in whoever it is that people are shouting to bring in and he loses a game, or two games - what happens then?"