Hands Across Great Divide Old Firm D-Day . . . And the Managers Will Be Putting Their Friendship On Hold for 90 Minutes at Ibrox Old Firm D-Day . . . And the Managers Will Be Putting Their Friendship On Hold for 90 Minutes at Ibrox As They Prepare to Go Head-to-Head for the First Time, Alex Mcleish and Gordon Strachan Talk to the Times. . .

Evening Times › August 23, 2005

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FOR 90 minutes today, Gordon Strachan will achieve what has evaded him for the past 10 weeks. Namely, get anywhere near his his good pal Alex McLeish.

Okay, until referee Stuart Douglas blows his final whistle at Ibrox around 2.15pm, they will be separated by the white lines of their respective technical areas - and centuries of hate-filled tradition.

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Hands Across Great Divide Old Firm D-Day . . . And the Managers Will Be Putting Their Friendship On Hold for 90 Minutes at Ibrox Old Firm D-Day . . . And the Managers Will Be Putting Their Friendship On Hold for 90 Minutes at Ibrox As They Prepare to Go Head-to-Head for the First Time, Alex Mcleish and Gordon Strachan Talk to the Times. . .

But long after the first Old Firm game in which they come into direct conflict is over, their friendship will endure.

And maybe, just maybe, the Strachans and McLeishs might get the kind of night out together which the n...

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