Summary
AS BOBBY Williamson begins his Plymouth Argyle managerial career this afternoon with a high-octane table-topping clash, he might wish for a friendly face to greet him. And one would doubt there is a more genial gentlemen in the whole of that crooked ancient leg forming England's south-west than Dave Smith, one of his predecessors in the Home Park hot-seat and a fellow Scot.
Smith is perhaps better known north of the border for his time in charge of Dundee in the late Eighties, when he entertained the locals with bursts of poetry and unscheduled pre-match walkabouts in the crowd. Unfortunately, the Dundee team he managed for less than a season were rarely so diverting as the man dubbed 'Coco the Clown'. More successful was the time he spent as first-team coach at Newcastle, where Smith was the training-ground inspiration behind the St James' Park side's last major success in the Fairs Cup in 1969, an honour - now re-named the UEFA Cup - they might yet reclaim this season.See the full content of this document
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Williamson Arrives to Cheers of a Clown
In his demeanour Smith could not be any more removed from Williamson, whose interactions with supporters at Easter Road usually involved glares thrown over a shoulder as he stood in the dug-out, and fractious ph...
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