The Jimmy Jefferies Experience Rugby Park Manager Tells Stewart Fisher Why He Is Confounded by Lex Gold's Failure to Invite Him to a Coaches' Working Group, Despite 20 Years in the Job

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HE is commonly portrayed as a grumpy old man, but in truth it takes quite a lot to make Jim Jefferies angry. Lex Gold and the SPL seem to have managed it, however.

The Kilmarnock manager was fuming this week when the discussion turned to the manner in which the SPL's executive chairman had cherry-picked the six top-flight managers invited to take part in the newly restarted football working group, and appalled by Gold's suggestion made in a personal phone call that passing on the thoughts and ideas gleaned from a lifetime in management wouldn't be his "cup of tea".

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The Jimmy Jefferies Experience Rugby Park Manager Tells Stewart Fisher Why He Is Confounded by Lex Gold's Failure to Invite Him to a Coaches' Working Group, Despite 20 Years in the Job

Instead, the new body met for the first time at Hampden Park a week ago, with Mark McGhee, Gordon Strachan, Walter Smith, Craig Levein, John Hughes and Jimmy Calderwood the bosses joining Hearts general secretary Campbell Ogilvi...

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