Alex Mackie (born in
Banffshire in 1870) was a Scottish
Association football
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player and
manager
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who took charge of
Sunderland and
Middlesbrough
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Until the early 1800s, the a ...
.
Mackie played his early football in
Aberdeen
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before joining the
Glasgow Football Association
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. He then became club secretary at
Inverness. After this, he spent seven seasons as
player-manager
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of
Sunderland during one of their most productive playing periods, winning the
1901–02 Football League championship,
Manager Details: Alex Mackie
The StatCat though his involvement in the Andy McCombie
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scandal brought a suspension imposed by the Football Association
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.
He was one of seventy applicants for the Middlesbrough job after Jack Robson departed and his record at Roker Park
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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
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Until the early 1800s, the a ...
in June 1906.
See also
* List of English football championship-winning managers
References
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1870 births
Year of death missing
Footballers from Aberdeenshire
Scottish footballers
Aberdeen F.C. (1881) players
Victoria United F.C. players
Inverness Thistle F.C. players
Sunderland A.F.C. players
Scottish football managers
Sunderland A.F.C. managers
Middlesbrough F.C. managers
English Football League managers
Men's association football players not categorized by position
People from Auchterless
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