Strachan in top ten Player/Manager list

Gordon Strachan has been voted amongst the most impressive player-managers there has ever been according to sport.co.uk His stint as player-manager of Coventry City in the mid-90s has landed him a place in a hall fame. The website says: "Although Strachan went on to manage Coventry until 2001, it was during the 1996-97 season that the Scotsman combined his idiosyncratic management style with the last season of his lengthy playing career which had begun at Dundee way back in the early 1970s. Strachan made an instant impact upon his appointment, somehow keeping the Sky Blues in the Premier League by a solitary point when it had looked as if they were certain to be relegated. He also set what was the record for being the oldest outfield player in the Premier League at the time, pulling on the blue shirt of Coventry at the grand old age of 40" Strach has ranked alongside greats like former Hoops hero Kenny Dalglish who In 1985 was appointed player-manager of Liverpool,bringing a further two league titles to Merseyside club