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In recent years, Gordon Strachan has become best known among football fans for his realistic and often witty assessments of his teams' performances and football matters in general. It is easy to forget that Strachan forged a career as a player where his abilities made him the only player ever to win the Football Writers' Player of the Year Award both north and south of the border. From his time as a young player at Dundee via Aberdeen, where he was nurtured by the then fledgling manager Alex Ferguson and became an integral part of the team which won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1983, to the dizzy heights of life at Manchester United and Leeds and an international career involving two World Cups, Gordon Strachan showed not just his flair as a wily central midfielder but also strong leadership abilities. They provided him with the cornerstone of his management career that began at Coventry as he moved from player to player/manager before finally hanging up his boots and led to his most recent stint at Southampton.
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‘Timely update of a biography on ‘Wee Gord’ as he takes up the Celtic hot-seat’ FourFourTwo
Gordon Strachan’s career as player and manager has spanned 35 years. From his early years at Dundee and Aberdeen, Strachan’s wily skills and leadership qualities have stood him in good stead as he graduated to playing for Manchester United and Leeds, and in his time as manager of Coventry, Southampton and now, Celtic.
At Aberdeen, under the fledgling manager Alex Ferguson, Strachan was an integral part of the team that won the 1983 European Cup Winners’ Cup. He had 50 caps as a Scottish international and competed in two World Cups for Scotland. He remains the only player ever to win the Football Writers’ Player of the Year Award both in England and Scotland. His dedication to fitness and idiosyncratic diets involving seaweed prompted Ron Atkinson to make the remark ‘There’s no one fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch.’
In this fully updated edition of the highly praised biography, Leo Moynihan looks at the tenacity of Strachan as a player, the true nature of his relationship with Sir Alex Ferguson, his management at Celtic, and above all, the honesty of a man that has often left fans scratching their heads, but always full of admiration.
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