The Golden Ticket was written by American composer Peter Ash and British librettist Donald Sturrock.

Strachan resigned in March 2004 ( to take a break from football ) and was replaced by Paul Sturrock, who had been in the process of guiding Plymouth Argyle to their second promotion in three seasons.

However, rumours of player dissatisfaction and personal problems dogged Sturrock, and he was replaced just five months later by reserve team coach Steve Wigley.

After narrowly avoiding yet another relegation in 2003 – 04 and a poor start to the 2004 – 05 Football League One campaign, Turner was replaced by former Southampton manager Paul Sturrock.

Sturrock guided Sheffield Wednesday to Championship survival in 2005 – 06 but was sacked after a poor start to the 2006 – 07 season and replaced by Brian Laws, who led Wednesday to a 9th place finish in the Championship after having an outside chance of reaching the play offs until the penultimate game of the season.

Gordon Strachan quit as Southampton manager in March and was replaced by Plymouth Argyle's Paul Sturrock.

Just after the start of 2004 – 05, Sturrock handed in his resignation and was replaced by Steve Wigley who spent three months at the helm before being replaced by Harry Redknapp.

Sturrock announced in July 2008 that he was suffering from a mild form of Parkinson's disease.

A boyhood Hearts fan, Sturrock was educated at Pitlochry primary and secondary schools and played for junior side Grandtully Vale.

1976 – 77 not only saw Dundee United consolidate their Premier League position but throughout the campaign Sturrock was an ever-present, playing in all 36 League games and scoring 15 times.

This season was also significant in international terms for Sturrock as he made his Under-21 debut against Czechoslovakia in a 0 – 0 draw on 12 October 1976 in the first ever Scotland Under-21 side.

In September 1998 Sturrock was appointed manager at Dundee United.

Sturrock was named as the successor to Gordon Strachan as manager of Southampton on 4 March 2004.

On 23 August 2004 it was announced that Sturrock was leaving the club ' by mutual consent ', after a disappointing run of form and rumours of player unrest and boardroom dissatisfaction with his management.

Swindon pounced at the opportunity to acquire the services of Sturrock and on 7 November 2006 Sturrock was confirmed as manager with Kevin Summerfield and John Blackley following him from Wednesday.

In September 2007 Sturrock was linked with the vacant managerial position at Championship side Leicester City, but this was denied by Swindon.

On 10 December 2009, Sturrock was removed as Plymouth Argyle manager and put into a business support role.

Sturrock soon appointed new signing Craig Easton, who he had previously managed at Swindon Town, as captain while another player from one of Sturrock's old clubs, Chris Barker, was later appointed as vice-captain, having initially been signed on loan, and then permanently on deadline day .< ref ></</ ref > It was not an easy task for Sturrock as his assistant, Tommy Widdrington left for " footballing reasons " on Wednesday 15 December 2010 .< ref ></</ ref > After a mid table finish in his first season, he has enjoyed more success during the current season, with Southend currently leading League 2.

Sturrock was named Manager of the Month for September by the Football League.

This fact is corroborated, by J. Sturrock in his South Kanara and Madras Districts Manuals, and also by Haridas Bhattacharya in Cultural Heritage of India Vol.

Sturrock also brought back to the club assistants Kevin Summerfield and John Blackley, who were previously with him during his first successful spell as manager.

Sturrock also asked in the same survey if the surveyee had witnessed any event which they could not have identified and which could have been related to the UFO phenomenon, with around 5 % replying affirmatively.

Sturrock also introduced – at least in principle – the concept of morning and afternoon training sessions in an attempt to raise the fitness level of his players.

Sturrock has also served as Chairman of the Plasma Physics Division and the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society.

Sturrock also found that skepticism and opposition to further study was correlated with lack of knowledge and study: only 29 % of those who had spent less than an hour reading about the subject favored further study versus 68 % who had spent over 300 hours.

Sturrock was curious what the general attitudes of the members of the AIAA might be and in 1973 surveyed the San Francisco branch of the AIAA, with 423 out of 1175 members responding.

There has been some debate in the scientific community about whether any scientific investigation into UFO sightings is warranted .< ref name = Sturrock / Stanford >

" In a later larger survey conducted among the members of the American Astronomical Society, where 2611 were questionnaires mailed and 1356 were returned, Sturrock found out that opinions were equally diverse, with 23 % replying " certainly ", 30 % " probably ", 27 % " possibly ", 17 % " probably not ", and 3 % " certainly not ", to the question of whether the UFO problem deserves scientific study.

Famous mainstream scientists who have shown interest in the UFO phenomenon include Stanford physicist Peter A. Sturrock, astronomer J. Allen Hynek, computer scientist and astronomer Jacques F. Vallée, and University of Arizona meteorologist James E. McDonald.

Sturrock asked polled scientists to assign probabilities to eight possible explanations for UFOs.

Astrophysicist Peter A. Sturrock wrote that " critical reviews ... came from scientists who had actually carried out research in the UFO area, while the laudatory reviews came from scientists who had not carried out such research.

Noting that many scientists wished to see UFOs discussed in scientific journals ( and at the same time, an almost complete absence of such articles in journals ) Sturrock helped establish the Society for Scientific Exploration in 1982 to give a scientific forum to subjects that are neglected by the mainstream.

Sturrock commented that the AAS members seemed more open to the question than the AIAA members in his previous survey.

A Roundabout Theatre Company production of the Kneehigh adaptation opened at Studio 54 in New York City on 28 September 2010 starring Hannah Yelland, Tristan Sturrock, and other members of the London cast.

In 1973, Peter A. Sturrock conducted a survey among members of the San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where 1175 questionnaires were mailed and 423 were returned, and found no consensus concerning the nature and scientific importance of the UFO phenomenon, with views ranging equally from " impossible " to " certain " in reply to the question, " Do UFOs represent a scientifically significant phenomenon?

A cited example of this was an informal poll conducted in 1977 by astrophysicist Peter A. Sturrock, surveying the members of the American Astronomical Society.

In 1975, Sturrock did a more comprehensive survey of members of the American Astronomical Society.

Only two members offered to waive anonymity, and Sturrock noted that the UFO subject was obviously a very sensitive one for most colleagues.

Peter A. Sturrock suggests that a lack of funding is a major factor in the institutional disinterest in UFOs.

Sturrock has been a prominent contemporary scientist to express a keen interest in the subject of unidentified flying objects or UFOs.

Upon learning that Vallee had written several books about UFOs, Sturrock — previously uninterested in UFOs — felt a professional obligation to at least peruse Vallee's books.

Sturrock commented that, " The upshot of this was that, far from supporting Condon's conclusions there was nothing extraordinary about UFOs, I thought the evidence presented in the report suggested that something was going on that needed study.

In 1998, Sturrock organized a scientific panel to review various types of physical evidence associated with UFOs.