Gordon Strachan: The Biography

by Leo Moynihan (Author)

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  2007

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  Gordon Strachan has probably become best known among football fans for his realistic and often witty assessments of his teams' performances and football matters in general. It is easy to forget that Strachan forged a career as a player where his abilities made him the only player ever to win the Football Writers' Player of the Year Award both north and south of the border. Now managing Celtic, this fully updated biography of one of Scotland's most charismatic exports is published 40 years after the club became the first British team to win the European Cup. In this comprehensive and fascinating biography, Leo Moynihan looks at the tenacity of Strachan as a player, determined to prove his old mentor wrong when Ferguson sold him to Leeds Utd, on the basis of him being past his best, and the true relationship that exists between them, as well as the honesty of a man who has often left followers of the beautiful game scratching their heads, but always full of admiration.

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  2005

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  If a Frenchman goes on about seagulls, trawlers and sardines, he's called a philosopher. I'd just be called a short Scottish bum talking crap' - Gordon Strachan. Unpredictable and quick witted, Gordon Strachan has been one of the greatest exponents of the post-match interview. As a manager, first at Coventry City and then Southampton, Strachan's comments were guarenteed to be at least as entertaining as the actual match itself. His contribution to this much miligned ritual alone would be enough to guarentee his a special place in the history of British football, but it cannot obscure his major achievements as a player in the top flight, winning championships and cups on both sides of the border, earning fifty caps for Scotland and playing in two World Cup Finals. From Dundee to Aberdeen and then to Manchester United and Leeds, Gordon Strachan has forged a career which many can envy. In this updated edition of his critically acclaimed biography, author Leo Moynihan reveals a man who was passionate and tireless as a player, and has shown himself to be as equally committed and fiery as a manager.

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  Hardcover
  2004

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  In recent years, Gordon Strachan has become best known among football fans for his realistic and often witty assessments of his teams' performances and football matters in general. It is easy to forget that Strachan forged a career as a player where his abilities made him the only player ever to win the Football Writers' Player of the Year Award both north and south of the border. From his time as a young player at Dundee via Aberdeen, where he was nurtured by the then fledgling manager Alex Ferguson and became an integral part of the team which won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1983, to the dizzy heights of life at Manchester United and Leeds and an international career involving two World Cups, Gordon Strachan showed not just his flair as a wily central midfielder but also strong leadership abilities. They provided him with the cornerstone of his management career that began at Coventry as he moved from player to player/manager before finally hanging up his boots and led to his most recent stint at Southampton.