Gordon Strachan
Gordon Strachan
Gordon David Strachan /ˈɡɔːrdən ˈdeɪvɪd ˈstrɑːxən/ OBEis a Scottish football manager and former player. Strachan is the manager of the Scotland national team...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth9 February 1957
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John was hoping he was on his way back. I hope it's not as serious as some thought.
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John took us up another level - holding the ball up and scoring the goal,
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We have a new group of players. And a mixture of guys who have won trophies in the past and want to find out if they can still win trophies, and those who have never won trophies before. On top of that, we all want to know if we can win trophies together. We're feeling good about ourselves, and we feel we can win the cup.
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We have to watch what we do in the first 10 or 15 minutes because we don't want to end the tie, or make it even more impossible than it is, by losing a goal right away,
We take that (personal life) into consideration with everybody.
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What you have tomorrow is two teams in a rich vein of form. I won't kid my players - they are playing against a very good Hearts team.
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For some strange reason we got on together. Maybe it was because I liked talking about football all the time. We'd sit down on the settee, have a cup of tea and chat about the game. He seemed to enjoy my company and vice-versa. You know, I've met football legends and legends of the entertainment business and they've sometimes been quite disappointing in terms of personality. But Big Jock walked in the room and you knew straight away you were in the presence of somebody special.
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I don't think we will be taking that any further now. I believe he has a smashing offer from Lille on the table and it also came into consideration that he has been out of action for a year.
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I don't want it to be something that you couldn't offer to his memory. You couldn't have that for Jimmy Johnstone. I'd want to dedicate something of beauty and not a horrendous performance.
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I am happy to have him in the squad and, if fit, to train with the first team unless something drastic happens.
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I have had incredible support from the supporters who I have spoken to and come face-to-face with, the real fans have been fantastic.
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I don't have a clue what his best position is, ... because he is so good in all of them. Usually a utility man is ordinary in every position, but he is brilliant in every position and that is a problem, I can assure you.
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I'd like to get home and sit down and let it sink in.
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People were looking to see if we could react to the Clyde result. We did.