Watt Finds Himself Up in Dundee After All, but Takes the Stair Way

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IT IS a theme pursued within venerable Dens Park's walls once already. When Stranraer's Neil Watt resisted the offer to become the manager of Dundee, it's reputed one official at the spurned club reasoned that his problem was intelligence. Too much of it. The remark echoed one made by Bob Shankly over 40 years ago. The man who led the club to their one and only league title attempted to curb a university-educated player's revolt with the words: "The trouble with you, son, is that the brains are all in your head."

Dundee again have reason to curse the phenomenon of the cerebral footballer. Watt will be present at Dens Park this afternoon, though not as one of Shankly's successors.

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Watt Finds Himself Up in Dundee After All, but Takes the Stair Way

Having elected to turn down the chance to manage Dundee after Jim Duffy's dismissal in August, Watt is preparing to give his suitors another raspberry this afternoon, in the shape of a second defeat of the season against a Stranraer team they'd never...

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