For the For me it was a real privilege to have Alex McLeish, a proper hero of mine as the

guest for the second ever begin to be live which we recorded at the I right book

festival in Glasgow. It was also our fortune that the event fell immediately

after Barso pulled off one of the great comebacks in football history, erasing a four-nill first leg deficit

to Paris-Santcha man by winning six-one at the camp now in what was just a remarkable

Champions League match. Neither of us could pass up the opportunity to talk about that game for the first part of this

podcast and to uncover, or at least try to, what it is specifically that allows the very best

players to win and keep on winning.

Alex then took us back to his formative years as a footballer,

the constructive criticism from his father which drove him on,

playing games constantly at a local pitch, later training with his Aberdeen teammates in the car park opposite Petodry

training in the car park on what was horrible hard red blaze

but still good enough for that lot to conquer Europe.

The dandy dawns of course feature heavily in this interview, and Alec talks about the success

that he enjoyed at the club, including how they got the better of Byron Munich. That's dramatic, believe me.

He also relives a few of the blazing rouse that Sir Alex Ferguson used to give his players.

I think you'll enjoy this. Stay tuned. Hello Glasgow, hello I write, hello big interview listeners. It's a privilege for me to be here.

Thank you for turning up. I feel a bigger privilege even standing here at night with

a hero of mine than I did sitting in the camp now last night watching the

greatest European come back of all time and the only reason that I was there the

only reason I had the confidence to try for something like living in Spain and writing about football is watching Scottish excellence.

Watching Scottish ambition. Some of you saw Alec McLeish, some of you have only heard about him

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