Dave Mackay

[swintonrover]

Story doing the rounds on twitter that's he's passed away.

[donnyguy61]

Confirmed by Tottenham Hotspur 
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12040/9740928/tottenham-have-announced-that-their-former-captain-dave-mackay-has-died

[Harrogate Rover]

Billy will be waiting for him......

[scotlandsbest]

Rip Dave Mackay a scotland legend and a legend in british football what a team it will be up there and let's hope the board do summat to mark the respect he deserves

[since-1969]

Managerial career

1971–1972   Swindon Town
1972–1973   Nottingham Forest
1973–1976   Derby County
1977–1978   Walsall
1978   Al-Arabi Kuwait
1983   Al-Shabab
1987   Al-Arabi Kuwait
1987–1989   Doncaster Rovers
1989–1991   Birmingham City
1991–1993   Zamalek
1994–1995   Qatar

[bobjimwilly]

He returned from the middle east in 1987 to manage Birmingham, according to Sky Sports (no mention of DRFC):
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12040/9740928/tottenham-announce-that-legend-and-former-captain-dave-mackay-has-died

 

[Filo]

He returned from the middle east in 1987 to manage Birmingham, according to Sky Sports (no mention of DRFC):
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12040/9740928/tottenham-announce-that-legend-and-former-captain-dave-mackay-has-died

 

Sky Sports "understands" that Doncaster is in the Middle East

[The Red Baron]

RIP Dave Mackay. A great player. From a Rovers perspective he was a huge disappointment as a manager. Even though he had little to work with in terms of resources he and Joe Kinnear very nearly led us out of the Football League in 1989.

The story goes that he had just finished a job in the Middle East and was interviewed at half time in a live televised game at Derby. Rovers chairman Bernie Boldry saw the interview, realised Mackay was available and got on the phone to him. That also meant curtains for Rovers' incumbent manager, Dave Cusack!

[BobG]

Did he really manage Al-Shabab in 1983? If so, why wasn't he arrested as soon as his plane touched down when he came back?

BobG

[BillyStubbsTears]

Mackay was a classic example of the old school British pro that was admired across the world. Fair and uncompromisingly hard.

As a manager, I lost all respect for him when, having failed with us, he then claimed the credit for the exceptional crop of youngsters who came into the first team during his spell. It was Steve Beaglehole who had developed those players; Mackay was just the manager who inherited them. And did precious little with them, compared to what Bremner very nearly managed a year or so later.

[Colin C No.3]

Brian Clough rated him better than Bobby Moore.......that'll do for me.

Spoke to him in the Belle Vue Sponsor's 'Lounge' (I use the term lounge in its broadest of terms!). He spoke highly of Dougie, but 'vague' about where he felt Rovers 'were going'. A great player but as a manager will probably be best remembered for taking over at Derby when Cloughie left & managing to keep them on course to lift the title, but did nowt for us.

[streatham dave]

RIP

[Colemans Left Hook]

He returned from the middle east in 1987 to manage Birmingham, according to Sky Sports (no mention of DRFC):
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12040/9740928/tottenham-announce-that-legend-and-former-captain-dave-mackay-has-died

 

Sky Sports "understands" that Doncaster is in the Middle East

and they also believe a club can have 2 teams in the same league

notice this little belter the other day can anyone spot the "deliberate" mistake --





and heres a clue anyone seeing double ????