Barry Robson pardoned over Rangers tea and toast mishaps as Archie Knox raves about Aberdeen's Mr Miracle
dailyrecord.co.ukTeenage tearaway Barry Robson used to torment Archie Knox every morning by getting his tea and toast order wrong.Now he’s Scotland’s hottest young manager after getting Aberdeen out a jam with a stunning sequence of results.
Robson has led the Red Army on a charge to guaranteed European group stage football. All this after they languished in the bottom six and suffered Scottish Cup humiliation at non-league Darvel.Ex-Rangers assistant boss Knox is wowed by Robson’s work since replacing sacked Jim Goodwin, initially as caretaker.
Robson rattled off seven wins on the trot then secured enough post-split points to nail the “best of the rest” spot. Landing the permanent Pittodrie post is a far cry from when Robson was routinely blasted by disciplinarian Knox at the outset of his pro career.
Robson was nicknamed “Baby Oleg” when a Rangers teen as he looked like a young version of Russian defender Oleg Kuznetsov. Knox, then No.2 to Walter Smith at Ibrox, recalled: “All the apprentices had different jobs.
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