Former Scotland boss Craig Levein found the national job a frustrating role
Tuesday 22 January 2013 21:19, UK
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Former Scotland boss Craig Levein has revealed he found managing the national team a frustrating job due to the stop-start nature of international football.
Controversial
Levein found it difficult to overcome the negativity towards him from fans disillusioned by his striker-free formation in a 1-0 Euro 2012 qualifying defeat by the Czech Republic.
Levein, who remains in legal dispute with the Scottish Football Association, said: "If it hadn't been so early in my reign, if I had known the players better, and if some things had been a little bit different then I probably wouldn't have played it.
"But I didn't do it to be controversial. I had watched a couple of European matches, watched Rubin Kazan play Barcelona the same way and they drew 1-1.
"I did it for what I thought were the right reasons.
"Whenever you do anything different, it becomes a stick to beat you with."
