Former Celtic midfielder Mark Fotheringham insists his experience of the Parkhead pressure cooker is the best possible preparation for life as a manager in England.

The 38-year-old was at one point the youngest player to make a senior Hoops appearance and, while he made just two more, he says the lessons he learned at the club's old Barrowfield training ground still stand him in good stead.

Fotheringham went on to carve out a playing career that took him from his home town Dundee to the German top flight and the English lower leagues before moving into coaching.

Notably, he played a key coaching role in Hertha Berlin's Bundesliga survival as well as a 2. Bundesliga title win with FC Ingolstadt.

He has now been appointed manager of Huddersfield Town in the EFL Championship - and while he espouses a 'German mentality' to football he reckons his Celtic rearing still underpins it all.

"There's been a lot of speculation regarding myself going to the Bundesliga but there's a real excitement here," he told Huddersfield's website.

"We know Huddersfield have an identification with the German way and we felt it was a good fit for me.

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"We know there are great rewards to go to the place we want to go, the Premier League.

"I'm looking forward to showing what I can bring to the table. I had a lot of experiences in different cultures and it was very important for my development.

"When I went to Freiburg, I fell in love with German football.

"I made a deal with myself as a young coach. I wanted to work in the Bundesliga, which I've now done, and the second was I wanted to work in the Premier League.

"This gives me a good opportunity to go there, but we need to be careful not to get too far ahead of ourselves.

"I enjoy working in an environment where there's pressure. I've been used to that.

"I was brought up and developed at Celtic. With Celtic, it's pressure week in, week out.

"I want to bring a German mentality to English football at this level but with my Scottish personality."