Game's up for Levein the loser: It is now a 事柄 of time before Scotland boss is axed

By John Greechan for MailOnline

Published: 00:57 BST, 12 September 2012 | Updated: 00:57 BST, 12 September 2012

Dead man walking. The only question now is how long the SFA 許す Craig Levein to drag Scotland along （刑務所の）死刑囚棟 with him.

Maybe this is just another 突発／発生 of... what did Levein call it this week?... ah, yes, hysteria. After all, the 経営者／支配人 himself does not seem 極端に troubled by our worst start to a qualifying （選挙などの）運動をする since those dark, dismal days of 2004, when a point from two games 始める，決める the scene for Berti Vogts’ 出発.

Levein speaks with the 肉親，親類d of 静める, almost condescending, 当局 you would not 推定する／予想する from a man with a truly pitiful 競争の激しい 記録，記録的な／記録する. In 10 qualifiers, he has guided Scotland to victory in just three 勝利，勝つs ― two against mighty Liechtenstein. Mere 詳細（に述べる）, when 始める，決める against all the real 調印するs of 進歩, 明白な only to the trained 注目する，もくろむ.

Game over: It is now a question of when Craig Levein will be 解雇（する）d, rather than if

He was utterly 納得させるing as he 取って代わるd his ‘there’s still 27 points left’ mantra from Saturday with ‘we’ve still got 24 points to play for’ on Tuesday night.

At this 率, he’ll remain perfectly unruffled until it is mathematically impossible for Scotland to qualify for the big show.

That 運命／宿命 looks ますます probable に引き続いて an utterly wretched and hugely 損失ing 1-1 draw against a team drawn from the very depths of the European game.

Our World Cup （選挙などの）運動をする lies in 廃虚s after two games, two points from a home 二塁打-header against beatable 対立 leaving us needing snookers to get 支援する into the Group A race.

The very real 関心 is that, with ultra-用心深い Levein at the 舵輪／支配, home and away 勝利，勝つs against the better teams are about as likely as the former Hearts and Dundee 部隊d boss 存在 knighted for his services to attacking football.

Think about it. Do you honestly feel that, without a change in 管理／経営, this Scotland ― who つまずくd against Serbia and misfired so appallingly against Macedonia ― are 有能な? of making it to Brazil in 2014?? Perhaps only as 観客s.

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Changing the boss is not always the answer, of course. There are deeper problems than one man, even Sir Alex Ferguson himself, could 直す／買収する，八百長をする. But, although blessed with a surfeit of attacking talent, Levein seems utterly incapable of putting together a starting XI and a game 計画（する） 有能な of 達成するing the results needed to reach a major 決勝戦.

The Tartan Army know it, which is why they booed Levein when his picture went up on the big 審査する. There appears to be no way 支援する for him の中で fans who chipped away and 詠唱するd at his 選択, his 策略 and the man himself during the 90 minutes.

Having seen Scotland flirt 本気で with a humiliating 敗北・負かす, only two 優れた Allan McGregor saves keeping them in the game, there was little room for 親善.

If there was a mood of 穏やかな 反乱（を起こす） at Hampden on Saturday, on Tuesday night the last few Levein 現体制支持者／忠臣s may have been 本人自身で volunteering to 問題／発行する him with his P45.

After all of the talk about how pleased we should have been with a point against Serbia, a whole five places above Scotland in the world 最高位のs, this game 現在のd the hosts with the chance to take on someone more to their liking.

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Macedonia are 97th on the 公式の／役人 FIFA 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）, a 十分な 50 位置／汚点／見つけ出すs below Levein’s men, and have never qualified for a major 決勝戦. 平易な meat, 権利? On a 冷淡な night reminiscent of so many 広大な／多数の／重要な Hampden occasions in the past, there was certainly some 空気／公表する of 見込み as the （人が）群がる began to filter in.

The changes to his line-up hinted at a more exciting approach and, sure enough, there was plenty of quick-footed, sharp-witted attacking play in the 早期に 段階s. Most of it, from Macedonia.

Blessed with 見通し, strength and a left foot so finely calibrated it could 選ぶ out a speck of dust on a passing asteroid, Goran Pandev was at the heart of everything that the 訪問者s 生成するd in a panicky 開始 （一定の）期間 for the home 味方する.

If losing a goal after 10 minutes is always 保証（人）d to create a few shockwaves, no one could argue they didn’t see Macedonia’s opener coming.

Given a lead to defend, in 前線 of a home （人が）群がる growing more agitated with every misplaced pass, fluffed move and fouled-up 試みる／企てる at defending, there was a real 恐れる Macedonia would now be playing to their 反対する-attacking strengths.

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It took a lot of hard work and some 罰金 goalkeeping to keep Scotland alive before they got their equaliser, Kenny Miller’s strike coming just at the 権利 time. There was a feeling that, as bad as things had been for 40-半端物 minutes, at least getting the goal just before half-time would 生成する some 勢い.

式のs, that was about as good as it got. 認めるd their wish to see Jordan Rhodes thrown on, the fans watched as he got himself into a couple of dangerous positions.

Before anyone starts 宣言するing Scotland 勝利者s on chances created, though, consider that McGregor needed to make one more excellent 脚 save to 妨げる Macedonia going home with all three points.

We Scots are still a mighty people. A proud 冒険的な nation 誇るing world and Olympic 支持する／優勝者s across a 範囲 of disciplines. So why the ぐずぐず残る fascination with a game that has passed us by and 完全に forgotten that we even 存在する?

Because this is our game. The sport that moves us like no other. We care about it 深く，強烈に ― and never more so when it comes to watching our 国家の team.

Levein has not been equal to that passion. 追加するd to his 無（不）能 to understand what a successful （選挙などの）運動をする 要求するs, that surely leaves the SFA with no 選択.

手渡すs up all who think our Hampden leaders will be 勇敢に立ち向かう enough to 行為／法令／行動する 速く and decisively?