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McLeish warns Warbo to learn from Demolition Derby

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Alex McLeish believes that Mark Warburton must quickly learn the lessons of his 5-1 Celtic Park hammering.

Straight after the match the former city trader claimed that there was no gulf between the teams followed by a bizarre set of comments in the days afterwards as he analysed the video of the match.

Already Warbo is planning to play the same tactics on Sunday to prove that his grand theory of soccer tactics is correct.

Older heads have been amazed at Warbo’s tunnel vision approach to the game with Chris Sutton drawing comparisons with Ronny Deila.

Even with the benefit of a squad funded through EBT payments McLeish knew a thing or two about grinding out a result and is credited with coining the phrase of winning ugly.

Assessing Sunday’s Hampden clash the former Rangers (IL) boss said: “I think he learned a lot from that (5-1) encounter. Not only was the game an education for him but the press that he got and learning to deal with that.

These are new things in his coaching career and it’s an education. The thing for Mark is to show how much he has learned from that experience.

You can’t put extra quality into the players if it is not there in the first place. They have got a lot of young players back in the team.

It’s as fierce a derby as there is on the whole planet – and that includes the Press as well. I remember after one of my first reverses against Celtic I thought: ‘hang on, wait a minute, I thought I would get a bit more understanding than that.’

You have to take it in and not react too much in a negative way and try and learn from the experience.”

Warburton goes into Sunday’s match on the back of a club record two match winning run in the Premier League.

With Andy Halliday replacing Joey Barton in midfield confidence at Ibrox is at a new high with Kenny Miller reaching 100 goals for both clubs at Inverness- 16 years after his Ibrox debut.

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