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Spiers on Sport: Gordon Strachan - good coach, patchy record

Gordon Strachan’s appointment as Scotland manager can be damned with that most faint of praises: he seems a decent enough shout. But it is little more than that.

Picture: Jim Galloway
Picture: Jim Galloway

The 55-year-old has won the race to be the next poor sucker to manage Scotland amid a dearth of credible rivals for the job. It is also now nearly five years since Strachan was last successful in football.

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