Gordon Strachan’s remaining ambition in football is to see Dundee build a new stadium. Ambitions to build a brand new home at Camperdown Park continue to drag on with the club’s Planning Permission in Principle application yet to be heard by the council. Issues with access and the impact on the nearby Kingsway have still to be agreed after a Former Scotland boss Strachan has urged decision-makers to give the Dark Blues owners the green light to get building.
Not just for the football club but to improve outside perceptions of the city. “It will take the city of Dundee to the next level,” Strachan told the . “I was saying to somebody from the council ‘when you watch a game on TV at Dens Park, that’s the image you get of Dundee – derelict, crumbling, lack of ambition, lack of foresight, it’s all there when you watch that’.
“You look at Middlesbrough, Coventry, they have beautiful stadiums but they are not the greatest of cities. “You might never have seen the city itself but you think ‘ambitious, wanting to do something’. “When you look at Dens Park you think ‘lack of ambition, the people in Dundee lacking in thought and all the rest, it’s derelict, it’s shabby, it’s untidy’.
“It’s for the town really. If you think about it the image of the town. “We’re sitting here now [in sunshine at Bridgeview Station Restaurant] and it doesn’t get any better than this.
“But that picture of Dens Park. It’s a wide open thing that’s 130 y.
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