Scotland managers have been appointed in 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2013 — more new messiahs than The Life of Brian — so the same old routines will be followed when the Scottish Football Association’s headhunting process cranks into life later this week. It will come to that because it now seems almost certain that Gordon Strachan can be counted among those who feel he has had long enough in charge. Strachan is understood to be coming round to the view that he gave it his best shot and now it’s time for someone else to have a crack. A severe hardening of the tone towards him in some tabloid coverage of last Friday’s defeat at Wembley has not gone unnoticed and will have…

Source: The Times November 14, 2016 00:02 UTC