Not many managers say that they have had enough of football even when they have had a bad experience and been sacked.
 George Burley has had a chance to consider his future after being sacked by the SFA from the post of national team manager. As with most people involved in football, he can't wait to get back in the thick of it and would like to return to club management. It was just in November, after a 3-0 friendly defeat by Wales in Cardiff which followed a failed 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, that Burley was relieved of his duties. He had been heavily criticised for his lack of results delivered during his tenure and eventually the SFA listened to the clamour for his head and called it quits. The former Hearts, Ipswich and Derby boss is looking to get back to the day-to-day involvement with players on the training pitch, which he missed while in charge of Scotland when he had his players for just days before a game. Burley said: "It was a great experience and a great honour. It was something that has made mestronger, made me a better manager and now I'm looking forward to getting back into club football. I don't think there are many people who have the opportunity to manage their own country and I was very fortunate. It was great coming back to Scotland and giving it my best shot as far as trying to take the country to the World Cup play-offs or finals but it wasn't to be. But there's no doubt you miss the day-to-day involvement I had for 15 years as manager at club level. In the last couple of years you were going six weeks and two months without any training sessions and with no games. When you have been used to every-day involvement on the training ground since you were 15 years old as a player and manager, you do miss it. You are very restricted as a national manager as far as being out on the training ground and working with players, giving them your own ideas and bringing young players through which you would do with a club. So I am certainly looking forward to getting back in to club football." |
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