Alex McLeish
Alex McLeish
Alexander "Alex" McLeish is a Scottish football manager and former player. Born in Glasgow, McLeish played as a central defender for Aberdeen during their 1980s glory years, making nearly 500 League appearances for the club, and won 77 caps for Scotland...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth21 January 1959
boundless brilliant energy example great snaps team
He had a great game. His energy is boundless and he snaps into tackles. He is a brilliant inspiration and example to his team mates.
cause changes few moment personnel ruled sure system
We're pretty sure of their system but it's the changes in personnel which cause us a few problems. At the moment I've not ruled out anything.
final finish lead looked press though took
We took the lead and it looked as though we could press on and finish them off. But we just lacked the potency in the final third.
ankle bad barry blow huge injury struggling
Barry is struggling with a bad ankle injury and that will be a huge blow for us,
barry hope join national sake scottish squad
Barry is going to join up with the squad and I hope he's all right for Walter Smith's sake and for the Scottish national team.
against barry eleven ferguson midfield pushing sadly
Barry Ferguson and Ian Murray were then pushing on from midfield and we thought at 2-2 with eleven against eleven there was only going to be one winner. But sadly we will never know.
doubt major
Franny is a major doubt for the match.
five goals love score six
We would love to say we will score five or six goals every week, but we don't want to be disrespectful to other clubs.
contact hopeful neither stuff training yesterday
Neither did any training yesterday and they won't do any contact stuff today, ... but we are hopeful they'll be available.
enjoying spoken
I've spoken to him and he's enjoying Rangers.
ball causing cleared decided discomfort full running stop took
Soto cleared a ball and took studs in his in-step. I don't think it was too bad, but it was causing him enough discomfort to stop him from running at full speed, so we decided not to take any chances.
close giving run
We have run them close but we are not giving up yet.
fit guys playing
In my playing days, we had a lot of fit guys at Aberdeen,
definitely front happy team wait
He's most definitely happy and can't wait to play in the first team in front of the fans,