Steve Clarke should learn Celtic lesson from Ange Postecoglou and realise the media are not the enemy - Hugh Keevins

Legendary Scotland manager Tommy Docherty once delivered a memorable quote that summed up his view of Press relations within football.

“I’ve always said there’s a place for the Press,” he said. “They just haven’t dug it yet.”

A mass grave for the media.

Steve Clarke can often give the impression, rightly or wrongly, that he would raise no strong moral objection to the idea of the diggers being sent in and an unmarked spot being dug for the communal burial of the allegedly negative forces at work against him and his team.

I happily exhume, to use the only appropriate word, the Doc’s dark take on journalists – first said 50 years ago – because it highlights the fact strained relations between Scotland managers and media is anything but a recent phenomenon.

I still treasure the text from Gordon Strachan that informed me I was a “pain in the a**e” but good at my job.

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Internal warfare between those who play or manage and those who write or talk about football is as much a part of the game as penalty shoot-outs.

And it can occasionally be just as dramatic.

Steve started to take the huff, though he may dispute the terminology, when a former Scotland manager Craig Levein criticised team selection and tactics