“My first night out at United I ended up in the boot of a car” | Gordon Strachan's Greatest Captains

he hit, he was like that, you know, just solid core strength and everything at that time suited him, the throws weren't that good, he had those strong legs that could go. through the mud and playing and still getting through it, he wasn't afraid of anyone. I have no idea if he could last a game now seriously because some of the tackles he made on people were used for backing even at international level. Oh, did he just do it? do that, there must be something wrong with this fall because he doesn't seem to have any kind of remorse, you know there's a guy lying about a agony and he just walked away because of it and treated it differently, he didn't. like someone was boarding or something on the Scottish national train to meet up, which is fine and and um and we were talking chees um G he was Immaculate in everything he did, I mean Immaculate and we shared the room for a World Cup in somewhere and honestly he's putting his boxers on hangers and I go in and put on my gear and he looks at me and says what's up and uh no, we're chocolate and cheese, but only after we figured out what it was about and and later theyWe understood that completely I think we couldn't understand how we were different types of players and I thought you could play football this way he thought to play this way and he wanted everyone to be like him and I wanted everyone to be like me it's only after a time of mixing together that we understand and probably again with intelligence of understanding that everyone knows the same thing, you know we are all different, but as long as we come together on the field for that cause, then it's okay, I mean, he has I was going to say that Yes, but he has this kind of self-confidence in the aura, doesn't he?

Yeah, he's got something about him, um, and you can tell him this when he's on TV, when he and he really still have that anger towards him when it comes to the expert tree, which is great, we love it, we actually love it. see it in the pund tree, um, when they actually start getting together and having a discussion, I'm just worried that the modern age will miss these discussions for whatever reason I just love these discussions and uh, like I said, now they got really good with them, um, but I found it hard to understand, you have to remember I used to say International, I don't want you sitting down. next to the Liverpool players, aren't you listening to what they're talking about?

What he didn't want was for anyone to know what his salaries were and what we were doing. I don't want you sitting next to them with a big coat and all that, okay, so we used to know the Scotland score and say hi, hi, and you can see the players liol say they're a bit standoffish, well we're petrified In case I find out, talk to you, I think when I look. when I see Grim on TV and I see him from time to time and I'm not even sure I can say this nowadays, but what surprises me and probably why one of the reasons he met a great Captain was that's a man, yes, we're still allowed to say we're, it's just me and you sitting here might be different in Scotland, although you don't want to go there, go there, go find us, no, no, yes, yes, it's as he is, he's a woman who can admire a woman for any reason and yeah, and what they do in life, um, so yeah, he was, he, he, he was very comfortable in the company of men and men.

They like being in this company, you know, eventually I got them. them and and that's why we look at it I think most people look to say it and say I'd like to be him I'd like to be him because there's an honesty to him and you'll never you'll never you'll never go behind your back it's that kind of thing. the ones you are talking about he will never go behind your back he will tell you that maybe you don't like him and the good thing about him is that he doesn't hold grudges, that'll be fine, in a couple of minutes I have made my point clear, let's move on.

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