My Lads Fear No One in Spl but Sorry, I Am in Awe of Gordon ; Irons Is Still Star-Struck in Presence of Top Bosses

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DAVIE IRONS has spent the past few weeks telling his Gretna players not to be overawed by SPL opposition yet he concedes hell be star-struck when he meets Gordon Strachan this afternoon. Fresh from plotting the downfall of Champions League holders AC Milan in midweek, Strachan takes his Celtic players to Fir Park this afternoon to face the rookies of the Premier League. Irons has been big on psychology since succeeding Rowan Alexander in the summer and has been determined to stop his players adopting an inferiority complex in the clubs first-ever season of top-flight football. Although they are bottom of the table, there has been enough about their early-season performances to suggest they will make a fist of fighting relegation, with a surfeit of concentration their biggest problem to date. Irons has relished the chance of pitting his wits against the big guns and has already drawn encouragement from the words of Walter Smith after the teams defeat to Rangers at Ibrox last month. Now its reigning champions Celtic who visit the clubs temporary Motherwell home and Irons will set out his team in the hope of gaining Strachans endorsement too. He said: Im always telling my players not to be intimidated by playing in the SPL and, overall, they have heeded that message.

But, from my own point of view, I cant help but be star-struck meeting Gordon Strachan and Walter Smith. They are huge characters and guys I have huge respect and admiration for. The SPL are having their managers conference at Gleneagles after the Scotland game next weekend and Ill need to get my autograph book out for that one.

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My Lads Fear No One in Spl but Sorry, I Am in Awe of Gordon ; Irons Is Still Star-Struck in Presence of Top Bosses

In all seriousness, though, I would regard a lot of the SPL managers as...

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