Craig Gordan admits he'll always feel like Scotland's No1
Celtic goalkeeper Gordon is battling with glove rivals David Marshall and Allan McGregor for a starting slot in tomorrow’s friendly with Northern Ireland and Sunday’s Euro 2016 qualifier against Gibraltar. It will be a huge call for Strachan as he decides who to go with between the sticks.
But Gordon revealed he will always have the belief he is Scotland’s best goalkeeper – because his standards would drop if he didn’t.
He said: “I have to think that I’m Scotland’s No 1 because if I did not have that mindset, it would be wrong.
“It doesn’t matter if the manager picks me first, second or third, my mentality still has to be I am the best.
“I have to think that to go out and perform to my best, otherwise I am already compromised thinking someone else is better than me. I won’t ever do that.”
Gordon claims Scotland boss Strachan does not need to explain his decision over who to go with in goal.
And he revealed they get no clues from goalkeeping coach Jim Stewart during training.
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Craig Gordon
He said: “It’s the manager’s call. All I can do is keep doing everything I can for Celtic and when we go away to give a good account of myself in training and see if I can get a game.
“He’ll have his reasons and he doesn’t have to explain them to us.
“He spoke to me before the England game and told me I’d play the second half because he didn’t want to change the team from the Republic of Ireland game, so that was the only explanation he gave to me.
“I won’t be asking him to explain his decisions. I don’t think that would go down well!
“Jim Stewart mixes it up in training.
“At your club, you can do things in order and the first-choice goes first, but when we go away as a three together, he mixes it up every day so that no one has any idea.
“You look for clues, but the manager also mixes it around when he’s doing the shape of the team all week. You can never know what team you are in.
“Everyone is right at it in training knowing they have a chance to play.”
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