They don’t have characters like Gordon Strachan anymore.
Thankfully, Celtic fans were able to watch Strachan in full flow during his peak years, as he spent several years in the famous green and white colours between 2005-09.
Just like Martin O’Neill, who he replaced in Glasgow, Strachan is a no-nonsense character, and he had a brilliant gripe to pick with Celtic’s boyhood fan, Luke McCowan.
McCowan is a popular player at Celtic, but there is one thing the all-action midfielder does that particularly annoys Strachan.
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Gordon Strachan’s brilliant pet peeve involving Celtic’s Luke McCowan
During Strachan’s appearance on Open Goal, Celtic’s title-winning coach was asked about his pet peeves in football and in life.
In typical Strachan style, his annoyance with football involves McCowan and his reaction to getting injured during a Celtic match.
The 68-year-old didn’t specify the game, but it was one of Celtic’s most recent matches where McCowan got injured, and because he was hurt, he started shaking his hand vigorously to indicate that he was hurt.
To nobody’s surprise, and to the laughter of the Open Goal panel, that’s something that doesn’t sit well with Strachan.
The former Scotland coach jokingly mocked McCowan by adding that ‘does that make it (the pain) go away?’ by gesturing with your hand in such a fashion.
“I am getting really annoyed, and there are a couple of things I get annoyed with,” said Strachan. “But the one I hate now, and I saw it with Luke McCowan last week.
“I love Luke. You talk about character and things. He has made himself into the player that he is at Celtic.
“And he gets injured, he is rolling about, and he goes (Strachan then proceeds to aggressively shake his hand about). What is that?
“You seen that on tele somewhere. Does that make you hand? Ooooo, oooo, oooo. What is anybody doing by doing that?
“Remember when you used to get hurt, you used to go (holds his leg). Now they are going, that is to show you that it’s really hurting. Does that make it go away? I am not really sure what that is. Does it make it go away? Or does it say to everybody, ‘Look, I am actually hurting.’
“It’s horrible. That has come from Italy. So Luke tried it.”
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