Gordon Strachan’s brilliant response to Sir Alex Ferguson’s notorious post Cup Final rant

dailyrecord.co.uk:

There's a twinkle in Gordon Strachan’s eye as he casts his mind back 40 years this month to the Scottish Cup Final of 1983. The day that Aberdeen backed up their incredible European Cup Winners’ Cup triumph over Real Madrid by beating Rangers at Hampden thanks to Eric Black’s extra-time winner – only to earn the rollicking of all time from gaffer Alex Ferguson. “We’re the luckiest team in the world,” Fergie ranted in an interview on the Hampden turf minutes after Willie Miller had held the cup aloft. “We were a disgrace of a performance. “Miller and (Alex) McLeish won the Cup for Aberdeen.

Miller and McLeish played Rangers themselves. And I’m not caring, winning cups doesn’t matter. Our standards have been set long ago and I’m not going to accept that from any Aberdeen team.

No way can we take any glory from it.” Strachan is speaking on our Off The Record podcast and there’s a gleefulness as the memories roll in. “I’ve spoken to him (Ferguson) about this and told him it’s made me laugh for the last 40 years.

Not at the time, but it’s wonderful. “At the time, it was like: ‘What happened there? Did we not just win that?’ We had our winners’ medals on the bus and everybody’s crying, not speaking to each other.