SIR ALEX FERGUSON believes Arbroath boss Dick Campbell should have landed the manager of the year award ahead of Ange Postecoglou.
The Celtic manager scooped the Scottish Football Writers' award and the PFA gong after winning the Premiership title with the Hoops.
For Sir Alex though, he reckons Campbell's promotion push with part-time Arbroath was more of an achievement.
The legendary Manchester United boss recorded a video message for his old pal ahead of the 'Evening with Dick Campbell' show at Glasgow's Saint Luke’s venue.
He said: “Dick in tribute to you tonight in front of a great audience. Tom Callaghan has been asking questions about you, I could give a few myself but I don’t want to embarrass you tonight.
I asked Sir Alex to send a video message to play to Dick Campbell during the live show tonight, and the top man delivered. Gentleman. pic.twitter.com/xw3yjSHezQ
— Sean McDonald (@seanmcdonald01) June 12, 2022
“What a great season you’ve had, Dick.
“I said, when I told you the other day, you should have been Manager of the Year.”
Arbroath narrowly missed out on promotion to the Scottish Premiership after finishing just two points behind Kilmarnock.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here