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Dundee have the mentality to shock Celtic insists Dens boss James McPake
Updated: August 5, 2021, 10:54 am
Dundee boss James McPake.
Bullish Dundee boss James McPake says his squad have the mentality to shock Celtic at Parkhead on Sunday.
The Dark Blues face a daunting first away fixture on their return to Premiership football, a venue the club hasn’t won at for 20 years.
The Dens boss, though, reckons he has the perfect mix of youth and experience at his disposal.
And points to the big-game characters he has within his squad.
Both Charlie Adam and Jason Cummings have played in Old Firm clashes at Celtic Park with Adam knowing what it’s like to come away with a big away win while at Rangers.
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John Gunn who lifts the lid on football politics around Tannadice in his new book,
Tales from the Touchline.
He was described by former Aberdeen and Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson as the toughest opponent he ever faced in the opposite dugout and “one of the greatest coaches to come out of Scotland”.
But was former Dundee United manager Jim McLean who shook up Scottish football along with Ferguson in the 1980s, and who died recently aged 83, really the best manager ever to serve at Tannadice?
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Charlie Adam smashes Dundee in front against Dunfermline but picked up an injury late in the game.
It never rains but pours down at Dens Park in recent years.
That’s usually bad news for the groundsmen Brian and Brian, nothing the Robertson boys can’t handle though.
However, it’s manager James McPake whose head must be hurting from never-ending downpours at the moment.
Just when it looked like Dundee’s injury problems at the start of the season had eased and the team finally gelled against Dunfermline.
Then comes an injury to Charlie Adam and an inexplicable collapse in the last 20 minutes against the Pars.
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