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Gordon Strachan is not a believer in the benefits of a rotation policy, but he has faith that his squad can adapt to the different challenges they face at home and abroad

GORDON STRACHAN believes the most effective kind of rotation policy is not to have one. The Celtic manager insists he doesn’t systematically rest any of his players, although he did refer to this afternoon’s away SPL match at Kilmarnock and...

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Mad, Vlad and dangerous to know

Alan Campbell looks back at yet another astonishing twist in the tale of Hearts, and wonders what happens now for Vladimir Romanov, the club and the players

THE car park at Riccarton was crammed full on Friday lunchtime, prompting the wry observation that a few more Eastern European coaches must have arrived at Hearts. Did, for example, the adviser to the consultant need an adviser himself? Such...

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The show so far

Alasdair Reid canvasses opinions from the 10 coaches in the Premiership and discovers some interesting trends

It was a modest milestone, almost unremarked, but no less significant for that. Last weekend, the SRU Premiership season reached its midpoint, each team having played nine games, each still with nine to play. Remarkably, or perhaps not in this...

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Cheque Reality

Bryan Cooney

THE Red Passport application form has lain forlornly in one corner of my study for some months now, accumulating so much dust and cobwebs that arachnophobic guests are directed to proceed with caution whenever they enter the room. I often...

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Help the aged

Alasdair Reid believes that rugby league’s proposed exploitation of Jonah Lomu is no way to treat a legend

The real bruises were more mental than physical, and Will Carling looked stunned in the aftermath. Ashen as he reflected on his England side’s 45-29 demolition by Jonah Lomu’s All Blacks in the semi-final of the 1995 World Cup, Carling...

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Brewster feeling the pressure

By Natasha Woods, Alan Campbell, and Richard Winton

THERE were no sackings last night, despite a day of managerial turmoil in Scotland, but Craig Brewster delivered the sort of frank assessment which could easily have been mistaken for a resignation statement. On a day in which Valdas Ivanauskas’...

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Off and running

Celtic’s display against Benfica in midweek put their previous European results in the shade. Michael Grant examines how Gordon Strachan built a mature team out of young talents

WHENEVER Martin O’Neill used to meander into an anecdote about Brian Clough during a press conference, it was time to put the pens down. Entertaining as these yarns could be, they were a journalistic no-man’s-land which O’Neill would use to...

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Play your cards right

Scotland’s bid to do the impossible and qualify for Euro 2008 is being made all the more difficult by their tendency to pick up cautions galore, says Michael Grant

THE atmosphere surrounding Scotland games is usually so good-natured and unthreatening that it was jolting to witness the repercussions of the sporadic violence that accompanied the midweek visit to Ukraine. Those of us who flew back from Kyiv with supporters...

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Marv can raise dead at Raith

Tom Shields' Sports Diary

A Raith Rovers supporter gets in touch to say that he hopes Marvin Andrews will be the architect of a major revival at the club. He says the Andrews effect can go beyond the big man’s defensive skills or even...

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