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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If you play for Celtic or Rangers, there is a certain responsibility. If you are a footballer full stop, you have a certain responsibility. You have to be disciplined. It's okay being angry, but you must be focused and you just keep trying to work on that. There is a thin dividing line between being a competitor and going over that.
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There was pressure on Craig because 55,000 were expecting him to score. He put it away well.
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It was as good a debut as I've seen in a long time.
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Things seem to be going well just now and the lad wants to stay, which is good.
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I will decide on that, but he is still captain.
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He does not have to prove anything to me,
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He is on a good run of seven or eight games and we will keep working and speaking to Artur.
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His presence will always be here, ... But I don't think he would like to be known as a figure that weighs heavily on everybody else. I think he'd like to say 'well, I've done my bit, you get on with your bit now'. The place is adorned with his pictures, which is quite right. But I've been to some clubs where it (the memory of a former great) can be a noose round your neck. It's not such a big problem here. He's well loved rather than worshipped. I think loving something is better than worshipping something. With worship you're kind of pushed into it. It can be a scary thing. It can be indoctrinated into people to worship a particular god. Love is a different. That has to gradually come on. You can't push anybody into loving anybody, but they all loved Jock.
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I think Alex and I can both switch off as managers, and we both understand that someone has to lose. Sometimes the problem is how you handle it after the game, as a winner and a loser. That can be difficult when it is someone close to you.
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If you had said to me after those European games that we would be in this position heading into this game with Hearts, I'd have taken that,
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Naka is the same in that he stays on to practice. I just want him to keep doing what he does.
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Craig, like Adam, still has loads to work on before he can be called a real player here.
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It's a shame for him because he has been playing excellent football and in a nice partnership with a nice midfield going there but we will just get on with it.
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Some of the football was excellent today, which the wee man would have liked.