Craig Brown, who has died aged 82, was the most successful manager of Scotland’s football team in recent times. He took the national side to two major tournament finals, including their last appearance on the World Cup stage, in France in 1998.
Brown was as close to a universally well-liked figure as it is possible to be in the competitive world of football. Erudite, witty and unfailingly courteous, he was far removed from the managerial stereotype of his era. However, he also claimed to be “bilingual”, with a tougher vocabulary reserved for the dressing-room.
