Vogts cannot be expected to fashion the proverbial silk purse from a sow's ear, but he has some way to go, tactically, to prove that he is the man to take Scotland forward.

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When we left a few minutes later, our transformation went in the opposite direction, or silk purse into sow's ear, since after several delicious blowsy hours of la vie en rose, our beeping cell phones signaled the impatience of the world outside.

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