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REFEREE TAKEN ABACK BY STRACHAN'S WITTY REJOINDERS |
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CELTIC boss Gordon Strachan is facing a lengthy exclusion from polite Scottish society after being sent from the Parkhead dugout for aiming cruel witticisms at a match referee.
 Strachan: "Genius is born, not paid for by Dermot Desmond"
Strachan, dressed in his trademark knickerbockers, cape and patent leather pumps, insisted no vulgar swear words had passed his lips.
However, he conceded the sensitive match official Stuart Dougal may well have been cut to the very quick by the barbed nature of his badinage.
“I have nothing to declare but my genius,” Strachan said. “The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated."
Strachan, whose latest play, The Importance of Being Gordon, opens this weekend at the King’s Theatre, added: “The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very dull if it were either.”
Asked if he thought his insolence towards the referee was a good example to set young children, Strachan replied: “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
Strachan is now being touted as a team captain on TV quiz show QI.
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