Stevie Farrell looks back on Cumnock career as Dumbarton aim to avoid Scottish Cup shock
dailyrecord.co.ukAll the ingredients are there for a classic cup tie.A Friday night under the lights. Live on the BBC. An out-of-form league side against an in-form non-league club.It’s the sort of night that Stevie Farrell would’ve relished as both a player and a manager during his seven years at Cumnock.Now he’s hoping that the Ayrshire side where he began his managerial career won’t pull off an early Scottish Cup shock at Dumbarton’s expense.Farrell joined the Townhead Park side as a player in 2005 and, aside from a brief spell at Irvine Meadow in 2008, remained at the club until 2011 having been player, captain and manager.However speaking exclusively to the Lennox about his career in the game, he revealed that his coaching journey started long before that - as a young player at Stoke City,Faz told the Lennox: “I think coaching was something I’d always had a desire to go into, even as a young player when I was at Stoke City.“You had a lot of time on your hands down there and were away from home.
So I used to go in and coach the young kids, the teenyboppers, on a Friday night. And I loved it.“You couldn’t really call it coaching.
It was really just throwing a ball to the kids and letting them enjoy themselves, but it was something I had an appetite for.“With managers I worked with I was always asking questions.
I always liked working for coaches and managers who would say things in dressing rooms that I hadn’t necessarily heard before.
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