Levein Already the Big Interview the Big Interview Stewart Fisher Finds the in-Demand Former Leicester and Hearts Manager Happy with His Current Lot at Stark's Park, but Also with His Burning Ambition Still Intact

Sunday Herald › October 30, 2006

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A GALE is howling through the streets of Kirkcaldy, uprooting wheelie bins and scattering auburn leaves as it goes. Perhaps these same gusts have battered the walls of East End Park, whistled along Easter Road, and even traversed the Tay Bridge on their way past Tannadice. A unique tripartite sequence of events Jim Leishman's decision to decamp upstairs at Dunfermline, Eddie Thompson's prevarications over Craig Brewster, and the ongoing vacancy at Easter Road mean that the traditional Autumnal whirlwind of renewal and change within Scottish football management has rarely possessed such ferocity. Inside Stark's Park, Craig Levein exhibits calmness at the eye of the storm.

Levein has never been the type to indulge in such intrigues, and meeting him for a pre-arranged interview on the day after reports first officially claimed he had been discussing the merits of the Dunfermline job with chairman Gavin Masterton, it is somehow pleasing to see this latest maelstrom has been unable to blow him off course.

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Levein Already the Big Interview the Big Interview Stewart Fisher Finds the in-Demand Former Leicester and Hearts Manager Happy with His Current Lot at Stark's Park, but Also with His Burning Ambition Still Intact

Despite operating on a non-contractual basis at Raith for the past month, he can hardly be accused of short-termism. His activities in Kirkcaldy this particular lunchtime include liasing with two Spanish trialists and their agents, provisionally arranging a friendly match a fortnight away, and acting as an unofficial media liaison officer for his players, not to mention overseeing the upgrading of the gym...

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