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Paul Sturrock has been appointed Plymouth manager for a second spell.
The 51-year-old, who had a successful stint at Home Park from October 2000 to March 2004, has left Swindon to succeed Ian Holloway, who is now at Leicester.
"I've taken a difficult job because of the expectation level," said Sturrock, who has also managed Dundee United, Southampton and Sheffield Wednesday.
"There's the old onion that you never go back but I feel comfortable with coming back. I can fit back in again."
Argyle have agreed compensation with Swindon for Sturrock, who joined the Robins a year ago, and his coaching team of Kevin Summerfield and John Blackley.
Sturrock guided Plymouth to promotion from what is now League Two in 2002 and they were promoted again in 2004 after he moved to Southampton.
However, he lasted just 13 games at Southampton and spent more than two years at Sheffield Wednesday before being shown the Hillsborough door and taking on the Swindon job.
The Robins, meanwhile, will begin searching for their sixth manager in just over two years.
Sturrock steered them to promotion from League Two last season and the team have held their own in League One this term.
Youth team coach David Byrne will take temporary charge of the side, starting with the FA Cup tie against Forest Green Rovers on Saturday, but he is also expected to join the exodus to Home Park.
Sturrock says off-field issues dogged his time at the Saints, Owls and Robins, and believes he can experience Premiership football again with Plymouth.
"I'm taking over a team that's fourth in the Championship and flying," the former Scotland midfielder said.
"I've had a wee taste, I've pitted my wits against the top men. I think everybody has that ambition in them.
"We're going to have a go. I can't promise anything but everybody on the staff will be working towards that.
"In a very strange league - everybody seems to beat everybody else - if we can turn the home form to be a real fortress, and continue the way the team is playing away from home, who knows what we can achieve?"
Did a stirling job for us with the resources he had available for which will be eternally grateful, dragging us back into the Championship in particular.
interesting stuff this, but it's hard not to see it as a step slightly backwards. He certainly started Argyle off on the course that got them from 80th in the football league to where they are now, but his successes since he left have all been in lower leagues. Not sure he's got what it takes to keep Argyle in the play-offs. It'd be great to see him do well though.
As for his record at Southampton, seems like it was a classic example of players (the majestic likes of Rory Delap, James Beattie, David Prutton and Matthew Oakley) thinking they were too big for the manager, rather than any specific failings on his part. Also worth remembering that it was Sturrock who brought Crouch to the club (for 2million, in between transfer fees of 5m and 7m) and thus gave Southampton their only bright point of that season.
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