Saturday Interview: Colin Calderwood: 'This Job Being a Manager, I'm Good at It'

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Colin Calderwood is a rotten manager. Every Saturday after the match, during which Hibs have invariably lost or underperformed, he'll replay it in his head as he drives down to Northampton to stay the night at the house he still owns there, trying to work out where the team, and it follows, the boss went wrong. Then on the Sunday he'll continue south to London to collect his son from his his ex- wife's house and they'll play a round of golf. "And Alfie, who's 15, will give it to me straight in a cockney accent: 'You're rubbish, Dad.'"

Calderwood is laughing as he tells me this, in what is his first major interview since arriving at Easter Road last October. Come to think of it, I may have just witnessed his first major smile in his short, difficult, close-to-squeaky-bum-time reign. On balance I'd have preferred a breakthrough for the footballing philosophy he's trying to impart in Leith over a breakout in grinning, but it's nice to see all the same.

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Saturday Interview: Colin Calderwood: 'This Job Being a Manager, I'm Good at It'

The usual demeanour is the one glimpsed in the technical-area when the TV director switches from a piece of typical Hibee faffing on the pitch to the manager's stony reaction. It's fair to say that football-wise right now this juxtaposition is at the absolute opposite end of the spectrum from the jump-cut between the beautiful game as played by Brazil and those beautiful women in the stands in itsy-bitsy canary-yellow bikini tops. And that's the last time in this piece that Hibs and Brazil will be mentioned in the same paragraph. So, Colin, how are you enj...

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