Hay Fever Stewart Fisher Finds the Dunfermline Manager Still Enjoying Management After Nearly 30 Years, Well Aware of the Pitfalls and Unsurprised by Anything
Sunday Herald › January 12, 2005
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THE heat is on at Dunfermline. The 3-0 defeat to Hearts last Saturday, which kept the local football club mired in relegation difficulties after last season's epoch-defining fourth-place finish, saw a surplus of hits on supporters' messageboards calling for manager Davie Hay to resign.
The 57-year-old has to think back to an ill-starred spell at St Mirren to recall a more acrimonious time in his professional life, but neither should turmoil be classed an entirely novel experience. Despite managerial successes ranging from Lanarkshire to Lillestrom to Livingston, Hay was just 29 when eye damage forced him to quit playing the game, while the visit of his former club Celtic this weekend will rekindle memories of twice being ruthlessly sacked from Parkhead, first as manager, then as chief scout.See the full content of this document
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Hay Fever Stewart Fisher Finds the Dunfermline Manager Still Enjoying Management After Nearly 30 Years, Well Aware of the Pitfalls and Unsurprised by Anything
On top of all that, the teenage Hay even had the dubious privilege of serving an apprenticeship at the accountancy firm trying to balance Celtic's books.
Nonetheless, when you count up his CIS Cup triumph, onset of administration and peremptory dismissal at Almondvale, 2004 has certainly been quite ...See the full content of this document
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