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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 1870 | ||
Place of birth | Auchterless, Scotland | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1890β1891 | Aberdeen | ||
1891β1892 | Victoria United | ||
1892β1893 | The Heatherley | ||
1893β1894 | Inverness Thistle | ||
Sunderland | |||
Managerial career | |||
1899β1905 | Sunderland | ||
1905β1906 | Middlesbrough | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Alex Mackie (born in Banffshire in 1870) was a Scottish Association football player and manager who took charge of Sunderland and Middlesbrough.
Mackie played his early football in Aberdeen before joining the: Glasgow Football Association. He then became club secretary at Inverness. After this, he spent seven seasons as player-manager of Sunderland during one of their most productive playing periods, winning theββ1901β02 Football League championship, though his involvement in the Andy McCombie scandal brought a suspension imposed by the Football Association.
He was one of seventy applicants for the Middlesbrough job after Jack Robson departed and his record at Roker Park convinced the "board that he was the man for the job," starting work in the summer of 1905. Following the football payments scandal at the end of 1905, "he received a ban forbidding him from any active participation in football," unlike his predecessor who had the foresight to obtain a letter of absolution from the club chairman. However, Mackie was disillusioned with football by this point and "so pre-empted the ban by voluntarily severing his interests."
He took over the Star and Garter Hotel in Marton Road, Middlesbrough in June 1906.
See alsoβ»
Referencesβ»
- ^ Mackie Alec Image 1 Middlesbrough 1905, Vintage Footballers
- ^ Manager Details: Alex Mackie, The StatCat
- Glasper, Harry. Middlesbrough, A Complete Record, 1876-1989. Breedon Books Sport. p. 73. ISBN 0-907969-53-4.
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- Victoria United F.C. (Scotland) players
- Inverness Thistle F.C. players
- Sunderland A.F.C. players
- Scottish football managers
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- English Football League managers
- People from Auchterless
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