Teenage tearaway Barry Robson used to torment Archie Knox every morning by getting his tea and toast order wrong.Now he’s Scotland’s hottest young manager after getting Aberdeen out a jam with a stunning sequence of results.
Robson has led the Red Army on a charge to guaranteed European group stage football. All this after they languished in the bottom six and suffered Scottish Cup humiliation at non-league Darvel.Ex-Rangers assistant boss Knox is wowed by Robson’s work since replacing sacked Jim Goodwin, initially as caretaker.
Robson rattled off seven wins on the trot then secured enough post-split points to nail the “best of the rest” spot. Landing the permanent Pittodrie post is a far cry from when Robson was routinely blasted by disciplinarian Knox at the outset of his pro career.
Robson was nicknamed “Baby Oleg” when a Rangers teen as he looked like a young version of Russian defender Oleg Kuznetsov. Knox, then No.2 to Walter Smith at Ibrox, recalled: “All the apprentices had different jobs.
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