Scotland's George Burley under renewed pressure after Welsh romp

George Burley was close to the Scotland exit door last night after his team were thumped 3-0 by a young Wales side - and he refused to say whether he would be in charge for the Scots' next game.

Burley saw his team taken apart by Arsenal youngster Aaron Ramsey, who helped put the Welsh three up inside 35 minutes.

Scotland fans booed Burley throughout the second half and one supporter hurled his blue shirt onto the pitch.

Burley said: "It's not an easy one to take. As a manager, you are disappointed by a defeat.

"I've got a squad of players that I'm utilising, I've got a squad of players out there and we didn't perform.

"It's one of those areas where you've got to look at it and move on. The first half wasn't good enough, it was shocking the way we conceded the goals, so that's something that's got to be better."

Burley was then quizzed on whether he still expects to be in charge of Scotland when they host the Czech Republic in March, and replied: "Well, that's up to other people, isn't it?

"I'm just thinking about this game, it wasn't good enough, we've got to do better and we were beaten too easily.

"As far as positives for this game, I couldn't pick one out, whereas in the other games we had been going in the right direction. We've got to assess it again."

However, he admitted he could not blame the Tartan Army for turning on him.

"I'm not surprised," he said. "If you are a manager and your team performs like that, you are going to get stick from the crowd because the performance wasn't good enough."