Scottish managers' meeting goes up in smoke

A hotel fire has put paid to Scotland manager Berti Vogts's plans to meet the country's top club managers.

A hotel fire has put paid to Scotland manager Berti Vogts's plans to meet the country's top club managers.

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 Premier League's 12 managers to have dinner with Vogts on Sunday evening and then stay overnight at the hotel 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.

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"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.