[Devongone]

The most interesting thing about Caldwell is that he has chosen such interesting ways to fail. Look at what he did to us ...... I often complain that football managers tend just to do the same old things, but you could never say that about Caldwell. Who'd have considered taking over a team, deciding radically to change the way they played, training them for ten days to do so during a two-week lull between games and then bring in half a dozen totally inexperienced youth players from decent teams on the Thursday before the match and putting most of them into that game on just one training session ........... ?

If he'd dressed half the team as Harpo Marx and the rest as kippers it could hardly have been less likely to succeed.

He may be Scotland's answer to Salvador Dali.