Who Will Be First to Go? Firing Line Firing Line Stewart Fisher Looks Ahead to the Coming Season and Considers Where the Smart Money Is in the Sack Race
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THE least time-consuming way of determining what is new about this season's SPL campaign is to consider what isn't. OK, so the league race itself is almost certain to boil down to the same old two-way scrap between both halves of the Old Firm, and past experience would suggest some petty, insignificant and internecine squabble breaking out between several of the member clubs at some point along the way (most likely involving either John Yorkston or Eddie Thompson), but at least dugouts the length and breadth of the country should be coursing with fresh ideas. Remarkably enough, nine of the 12 SPL clubs have managers in place who have been in their current jobs for no longer than one full season.
Paul Lambert, installed at Livingston with only his DfB coaching badge to back him up, may be the only bona fide rookie amongst the bunch, but neither Gordon Strachan, George Burley and John Hughes have ever coached in the SPL before either. Three others - Gordon Chisholm, Craig Brewster and Jim Leishman - must be classed as nearly new, having had little more than a few months of a trial period to acclimatise towards the end of the 2004-05 campaign. By these standards, Jimmy Calderwood and Tony Mowbray might be in line to qualify for a merit award for merely having negotiated one successful season, with Alex McLeish, Terry Butcher and Jim Jefferies the new old hands of Scottish football middle management.See the full content of this document
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Who Will Be First to Go? Firing Line Firing Line Stewart Fisher Looks Ahead to the Coming Season and Considers Where the Smart Money Is in the Sack Race
Perhaps the biggest part of the success story weaved by Mowbray at Easter Road has been his ability to buck one of Scottish football's less savoury trends. He is the only manager to serve an apprenticeship in the SPL in the past two seasons and not be sacked for the trou...
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