Inside Thelin's journey to Aberdeen as he offers everything Warnock couldn't

An interesting guy who tries his damndest to come across as not very interesting at all. A quietly spoken Swede with a long held preference for keeping a low profile, even when the success of his work demands the opposite be true. In other words, Aberdeen’s new manager is the sharpest possible contrast from the tub thumper of an interim who was meant to be keeping the seat warm for him but who, ultimately, left town after all manner of broken promises.

It’s all very reminiscent of the way the young Eriksson was regarded back in the early 80s before he set off on the journey which would lead him to the England and Manchester City jobs, with the occasional stop off in Ulrika. During that time he was also interviewed for the Aberdeen job before chairman Dave Cormack decided Barry Robson was better qualified to take on the job on a full time basis. Oh well, you live and learn.

It was not long ago, after all, that Thelin was one of three front runners for the national job in his homeland before ruling himself out of the running and clearing the way for Jon Dahl Tomasson’s appointment on the basis that he sees his future in club football. “I played guitar, the worst played guitar ever. You couldn’t hear a difference in the notes! But we had a lot of fun. It was sort of punk rock. We had some songs by the Ramones that we played. I sang incredibly fake in the choruses.”

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