We hear a lot about bravery in football. About players being strong enough to ask for the ball under pressure, to take chances when the risk is equal to the reward.
But what about the gaffers who have the cojones to lay everything on the line, when the heat is being cranked up and every point is a prisoner? They often get overlooked.
Let’s hear it, then, for Kilmarnock manager Derek McInnes. A coach whose reputation for caution belies a boldness laid bare in Saturday’s home win over Hearts. While the theme of a rip-roaring afternoon at Rugby Park may well have been one of home defiance, especially when the hosts were reduced to ten men for the last half hour, there was also much to admire in the courageous approach they took to stymieing a visiting side boasting some fairly fearsome firepower.
