Brown exerts total control 1 Edition

NO football manager, even one as well-adjusted and tolerant as Craig Brown, is likely to complete a career of any length or significance without making the acquaintance of at least a few of the seven deadly sins. The Scotland coach arrived in the historic capital of the Czechs yesterday beset by env...

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Published inScotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland : Daily)
Main Author GLENN GIBBONS Chief football writer
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Edinburgh (UK) Scotsman Publications 08.06.1999
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Summary:NO football manager, even one as well-adjusted and tolerant as Craig Brown, is likely to complete a career of any length or significance without making the acquaintance of at least a few of the seven deadly sins. The Scotland coach arrived in the historic capital of the Czechs yesterday beset by envy, lust and anger. Brown, having had to endure so many injury-enforced absences of first-pick players that he is mother-henning what amounts to a Scotland B team, admitted to being deeply envious of his counterpart, Jozef Chovanec. When the Czechs beat Estonia 2-0 in Tallinn at the weekend, they started the match with the team who had defeated Scotland 2-1 at Celtic Park in March. He reserves his anger for those moments when his players discard the script and start improvising, a tendency which, among practitioners of limited ability, is so risky that it can quickly become folly. Brown also becomes irate when the kind of carelessness which overcame his team in the closing minutes of Saturday's match against the Faroes leads to the loss of precious points.
ISSN:0307-5850