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Specky Ginger · Joined: 16 Jun 2012 Posts: 4258 Location: Dysart

Passed away this morning.
Read on Thursday he was in palliative care.
Poignant, with Scotland on the cusp of qualifying for a major tournament.
Never met him, but a true gentleman by all accounts.[/list]
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Armagh Rover · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 5742 Location: Nottinghamshire

RIP Craig, you left a lot of good memories behind

Cuparman · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 1870 Location: Irvine

I feel for his family.
He always came across as a good man.
RIP Crying or Very sad

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embow · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2023 2:40 pm Post subject:

Met him once at a Sport's Dinner event way back in the mid 1990's in Inverness.
Absolute gentleman. Made time for everyone, signed autographs willingly, mixed with folks at the tables chatting and answering questions after doing his illustrated talk about his time in football up to then.
I'm old enough to remember him as a young player and squad member (only used occasionally) of the Dundee title winning team of 1961-62 season.
Brother of "Unthinkable surely" Jock.😊.
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badpress139 · Joined: 19 May 2015 Posts: 2618 Location: Glenrothes

Hopefully we do something to remember him at the next scotland home game. England in September.

Wolfman Jack · Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2023 9:29 pm Post subject:

Craig was a guest at a Rock the Rovers dinner 9 years ago, it was great to meet and chat to him.
He was a perfect Gent all night and his anecdote about Dick Campbell was priceless.

Rest in peace Sir.
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Franco · Joined: 10 Oct 2019 Posts: 1196 Location: kirkcaldy

His passing will be observed at the upcoming Scotland v England game, I am sure.
Many memories of Scotland games of Craig 's era.
A standout must be , in Paris for the Brazil v Scotland World Cup opener and the cheer that went up when Craig ,in full Highland dress, lead out the Scotland team.
Met him once at an event in Dunfermline , after he had entertained everyone with good football yarns. A friendly and down to earth guy.

Neil M · Joined: 16 Aug 2008 Posts: 2590 Location: Aberdeen

When you look back, nothing good really happened between Craig Brown's time in charge of the National Team and Stevie Clark's arrival. All those Old Firm dreamers, back in the day, who thought his management was flawed, must look back now and see that he was one of the best managers in decades - and he was! Managers with much higher profiles, better connections and more sucessful playing careers behind them, were not a patch on Craig Brown's succeses! He was under-rated and never really got the credit that he truly deserved. He did so much with so little.

He struck me as being a larger-than-life and yet humble and unassuming character.

I worked with disadvataged youngsters. Although I never met him myself, we would arrange visits to Pitoddrie for the youngsters and Craig Brown was always a real gentleman and would spend a lot of time talking with those kids.

At least he lived to see Scotland come full-circle and finally get back some pride.

R.I.P. Craig - national treasure, Scottish legend!

scotty · Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 9065 Location: Almost Dysart.

Broony was a great coach and man manager, he was however blessed with some good material to work with, not all who followed him had that luxury, some had a player or two but often we were looking at a rake of English championship players with barely a Premiership player (usually Daz Fletcher) to call upon.
Brown didn't have the Dalgliesh or Souness types to call upon but at least there was a few good guys and boy Did CB arrange them to their strengths, as I said a great coach.

Craig rates as the best Scotland manager I've seen after Stein, Steve Clark may yet eclipse him, hopefully he surpasses both.

RIP CB.
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