Ex-Celtic boss Gordon Strachan reveals he once entered a lookalike contest as himself – but LOST to ‘soap legend’

GORDON Strachan has revealed he once entered a lookalike competition as himself and only finished runner-up.
The former Scotland and Celtic manager was encouraged by friends to enter the contest while at a bar in Tenerife.
The 67-year-old went up on stage with other hopefuls and pretended to be a dead ringer for himself.
However he was left stunned when he was beaten by a woman who was a lookalike for legendary Coronation Street character Vera Duckworth.
Strachan said the incident happened in the 1990s when he was a coach at Coventry City under manager Ron Atkinson during a mid-season sunshine break.
He said: "When I first went to Coventry big Ron took us to Tenerife in February. I've got an idea why we went there because big Ron had a house there.
"We got there and I went for a drink and I ended up being second in a lookalike competition.
"I was second being me and the woman who won it was a lookalike for Vera Duckworth who looked nothing like Vera Duckworth.
"Harry Roberts, who worked with me at Coventry, went: 'We've got a Gordon Strachan lookalike over here'.
"I had to stand up with a Vera Duckworth and a Charlie Drake or something like that.
"So I had to go up and get presented with a bottle of wine for coming second for looking like me in a bar in Tenerife.
"That was the funniest story - I was second for being myself."
Strachan was speaking to veteran broadcaster Jeff Stelling on an episode of his podcast Football's Greatest.
The Aberdeen and Leeds United legend is now a technical director at Dundee FC and has ruled out a return to full-time management.
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