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
enjoying spoken
I've spoken to him and he's enjoying Rangers.
finish players pleased season style
I was very pleased with the players after the exertions of midweek. Now we have to try to finish the season with as much style as we can.
ahead good hard position sets strong work
It has put us in a strong position and it's a very good start. It sets us up well but we still have hard work ahead of us.
harsh torn
I thought it was his hamstring. When you see him going down, you think he's torn something. But I don't want to make any harsh predictions.
asked comments game gifted highly knew players rattled
I thought his comments were fine. At times Porto did outplay us, and we knew they would, but the thing is we rattled them. They had highly gifted players but we rattled them. I asked the players to let Porto know they had been in a game and they did that.
celtic difficult losing
It is difficult to see Celtic losing it now, but we have got to keep going,
doubt major
Franny is a major doubt for the match.
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.
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.
came great since tournament
It's been a great tournament for me since I came here,
close giving run
We have run them close but we are not giving up yet.