Paul Sturrock
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"Paul Whitehead Sturrock" is a Scottish association football/football coach (sports)/manager who last served as manager of Southend United F.C./Southend United between 2010 and 2013.

His former posts included spells as manager of Sheffield Wednesday F.C./Sheffield Wednesday, Southampton F.C./Southampton, Plymouth Argyle F.C./Plymouth Argyle, Dundee United F.C./Dundee United, Swindon Town F.C./Swindon and St. Johnstone F.C./St. Johnstone. He was also a Scotland national football team/Scotland international footballer. He is known by fans as Luggy (from the Scots language word lugs, Eng: ears). Sturrock announced in July 2008 that he was suffering from a mild form of Parkinson's disease.

His son, Blair Sturrock/Blair, is also a professional footballer.

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We've learned how to lose, sometimes gracefully, so we've got to learn how to start winning again.

That was long overdue. There's been tension in his play because of the lack of goals but in the last two games he's been outstanding in running the line and his hold-up play.

I've watched him from afar and been very excited with him. He was outstanding on loan at Wolves. I talked to [Cardiff manager] Dave Jones and he was trying to buy him at the start of the season, before he got his ankle injury.

I'm gutted for the lad and the boy himself is inconsolable. Hopefully we'll have him back for the start of next season.

It makes it 100% harder by our result and their result in midweek.

I won't discuss anything like that at this juncture.

The expectation levels have gone up again so we've got to be very guarded in our approach and appreciative of the things that we worked on in midweek.

He became available and I'm very pleased to get him and obviously it's cost us money, so I'm grateful to the chairman for that.

At the end of the day we'll take the draw.