Fire cancels Scottish managers' meeting
Scotland manager Berti Vogts has had to pull the plug on a summit meeting with the nation’s top managers after fire swept through the country house hotel he had booked for the occasion.
The Gleddoch House hotel at Langbank, west of Glasgow, was severely damaged by a blaze last night.
The Scottish Football Association had arranged for the Scottish Premier League’s 12 managers to have dinner with Vogts on Sunday evening and then stay overnight at the hotel – which was used by Real Madrid before the 2002 Champions League final – before reconvening at Hampden Park the following day.
An SFA spokesman said: “We were not able to reschedule the meeting at another hotel so it has had to be cancelled.
“It was a get-together to discuss the international team’s programme for the year ahead and was more in the spirit of good co-operation between club and country rather than urgent business.
“We hope it can be rescheduled later in the season.”
Celtic manager Martin O’Neill had a prior engagement anyway and the bosses were to have been joined on Monday by members of their coaching staff to meet with Vogts, under-21 coach Rainer Bonhof and SFA chief executive David Taylor.
Vogts had also invited Erich Rutemoller, head of coach development at the German FA, to be guest speaker.
