It's been dubbed El Sackico but Billy Brown reckons it’s the phrase that should be binned, not the loser of tomorrow’s Hibs-Aberdeen clash.
The former Hearts, Hibs, Falkirk and Bradford City assistant boss is now chairman of Scotland’s Managers and Coaches Association and doesn’t care much for the pressure he has seen heaped on Dons gaffer Jim Goodwin and his Easter Road counterpart Lee Johnson this week. Brown, now 72 and out of the game after decades of success working alongside Jim Jefferies, gets that football is a results business and when Goodwin suffers a reverse like Monday’s Scottish Cup defeat at Darvel then his job is up for debate.
But he doesn’t like the way Aberdeen’s visit to Leith is being billed as a shootout that will leave only Goodwin or Johnston still standing at the end of it. Nor is he entirely pleased with the statement issued by the Pittodrie that appears to have given their manager only the flimsiest stay of execution.
