Was he not the template for The Tache?
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Was he not the template for The Tache?
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Brilliant ball control and could go past a player with ease but was slower than a week in the tin pale .
Heard Bell once had a race with George Mcluskey and they have still no finished it :)
Gordon Strachan touted Dougie for Scotland as well and couldn't understand why he wasn't capped. Jock Stein was a fan of Dougie's and picked him for the U21s in this lineup against Yugoslavia - 2-1 to Scotland:
Bryan Gunn
Stevie Nicol
Maurice Malpas
Roy Aitken
Richard Gough
Neale Cooper
Paul McStay
Neil Simpson
Brian McClair
Dougie Bell
Mo Johnston
A strong Aberdeen presence in this team. He also picked him again as one of his overage players when Dougie was 24.
This extract from the Hibs section of the book struck a chord with me:
"Speaking to Hibs fans at various events at the time, their overall feeling was that Alec’s tactics were a bit too negative. The way I saw it is that he was only negative in the big games but not the ordinary league games. If we played Dunfermline for example and they were bottom half he wanted me to run at them and get the crowd excited. That is what I had been doing for years, and since I had been at the club, and I loved it. Against the bigger and better teams he was now was telling me that I had to sit in. That might have made good tactical sense but I really disliked having to do it.
In one game he asked me to man-mark a particular well-known Celtic player which I did. That player hardly touched the ball. The problem was that I only touched the ball myself around 10 times in the game and for an attacking midfielder who loves to get forward that was excruciating. The manager thought I had one of my best games for him and I couldn’t understand how."
When he was leaving Rangers he had a number of options and chose Hibs. He rated both McIntyre and Mitchell and the fact that they were signing helped his decision. He claims that the three of them played a big part in us moving up the table out of relegation threat.
That will strike a chord with everyone who endure the hearts run and many many games against the OF and Aberdeen where we allowed them to just play and we sat back. With the players we had at periods of his managership we could have done so much better but for his tactics