Hughes Aiming at More Than Mere Top-Flight Survival Falkirk Falkirk Young Players and Passing Football Are Key to the Manager's Audacious Playing Style, Discovers Natasha Woods

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AT just 41 and not yet three years into his first managerial job, it is probably too early to start asking John Hughes about the legacy he feels he will leave at Falkirk, but it's still a subject which provokes a passionate response.

"The Falkirk formula - that's what it is, " he said as he prepared his team for today's visit of Celtic. He could easily expound at length on this afternoon's opponents. Having played for them, he knows the standards demanded at a club of such stature.

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Hughes Aiming at More Than Mere Top-Flight Survival Falkirk Falkirk Young Players and Passing Football Are Key to the Manager's Audacious Playing Style, Discovers Natasha Woods

But Falkirk is his focus now and it's a challenge he attacks with almost missionary zeal. "My whole vision for Falkirk is to see eleven kids on the park that have all come through the system. And they will come thr...

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