Alex McLeish

Name: Alexander McLeish
Age: 48
Nationality: Scottish
Current Club: Birmingham City

Brief Playing history: Almost all his footballer career he played for Aberdeen as a central defender forming a great defence with Willie Miller. He played for Aberdeen when the team had a great success, winning 3 times the Scottish Premier league, 4 times the Scottish Cup, twice the Scottish League Cup and 2 european trophees: European Super Cup and European Cup Winners Cup. He also played for Scotland in three consecutive World Cups and he decided to end his professional football player career at Motherwell.

Brief Management history: In 1994, after leaving Aberdeen he became a player-coach for Motherwell, but one year later he quit playing and remained as a manager until 1998 for the club. In 1998 he moved to Hibernian and won Scottish League First Division and in 2001 he made the big step to Rangers where he won twice the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Cup and 3 times the Scottish League Cup in 5 years coaching the team. In 2007 he tried his luck as Scotland’s manager but soon after, he left the team to sign with Birmingham City.

Previous Clubs Played for:
1978-1994 – Aberdeen
1994-1995 – Motherwell

Previous Clubs Managed:
1994-1998 – Motherwell
1998-2001 – Hibernian
2001-2006 – Rangers
2007 – Scotland
2007-present – Birmingham City

James McFadden Signs For Birmingham

James McFadden has signed for Birmingham City from Everton for a reported £5million Fee, thats a staggering £3.75Million Profit in just 4 years for Everton (he only cost £1.2 Million from Motherwell). The inspirational scottish midfielder will join old scotland boss Alex McLeish. The move seemed in doubt when Everton and Birmingham could not agree a fee, Also another undisclosed club came in with an offer at the last minute (this is believed to be Celtic) However the deal has gone threw and McFadden has since agreed personal terms and passed a medical.

Here is what Alex McLeish had to say about James McFadden

“He is the type of player you know you are going to get everything from for the entire 90 minutes of a game.

“He has matured. He has had his initiation at Everton in the Premier League

and for me he is a definite Premier League player. He has shown that in a very

good Everton side this season.

“When he has come into the side, I am not so sure anyone has looked as good as him.”

Here are some Videos of James McFadden In Action

McFadden’s Wonder Strike for Scotland Vs France
Everton Vs Charlton - McFadden Goal

Birmingham City

Birmingham City Football Club
Nicknames: Blues
Founded: 1875 as Small Health Alliance
Stadium: St. Andrew’s
Capacity: 30,009
Owner: David Gold
Chairman: David Gold
Manager: Alex McNish

Founded in 1875 as Small Health Alliance, they changed name to Small Health in 1888 and in the end, in 1905 they became Birmingham City. They’ve spent the majority of their history in English Premier League but they had a couple of bad periods. In the 50s they had their best period when they managed to finish league championship in 6th position and they were FA Cup finalists. Their Local rivals Aston Villa is a great local derby which is one to watch out for in this Premier League season.

The darkest era is pretty recent, between 1986 and 2002, when they were constantly outside the English premier league, strugglind in the lower division. They play at the current stadium, St. Andrew’s from 1906 and their biggest rivals are Aston Villa, another local team from Birmingham.
In 2001 they reached League Cup Finals, loosing to Liverpool at Millenium Stadium from Cardiff at the penalty shootout. A year later, they won promotion at another penalty shootout against Norwich City.

In July 2007 the hong-kong based businessman, Carson Yeung bought the main shares and became the biggest single shareholder. Apparently, he wants to take full control in the future (however this deal has been put off by David Gold), and he wants to invest a lot of money in the club. This year they managed to buy new players and they got the former Scottish International Team coach, Alex McNish, to guide them in Premier League.

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