Mcleish: From the Head Boy to the Main Man the Former Tartan Army Foot Soldier and Defensive Stalwart Speaks to Michael Grant Ahead of His First Test As Manager

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ALEX McLeish's eyesight is going and his memory isn't what it used to be. The new Scotland manager needs glasses to watch a game comfortably these days and if you ask him about the first international match he went to at Hampden, he cannot remember for sure.

At least he does recall being there when Ted MacDougall scored against Northern Ireland in a 3-0 win in 1975, which somehow seems so long ago that DCI Sam Tyler might have been beside him on the terraces during a break from Life On Mars.

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Mcleish: From the Head Boy to the Main Man the Former Tartan Army Foot Soldier and Defensive Stalwart Speaks to Michael Grant Ahead of His First Test As Manager

Hampden was a grey, rumbling old place then, vividly described by the visiting English journalist David Lacey as the only ground which looked the same in black and white as it did in colour. McLeish looked different too: a gangly, freckled, red-headed teenager standing behind the g...

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