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Ian Cathro ticks all the right boxes for Rangers counterpart Mark Warburton

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Ask Mark Warburton if he would have been ready for management at 30 and his mind races back through the years.

His own route to the technical area was certainly unconventional. Warburton, though, had different things on his mind when he was Ian Cathro’s age.

The fortunes, quite literally, of Kansallis-Osake-Pankki were often foremost. This isn’t some scarcely pronounceable minnow from a Scandinavian league, but rather Warburton’s City employer during the early 1990s.

Ian Cathro has been named the new manager at Hearts despite being just 30
Ian Cathro has been named the new manager at Hearts despite being just 30

‘At 30, I was working as chief dealer at a Finnish bank in London,’ grinned the 54-year-old Rangers boss.