You're going to. We recorded this big interview with Alec McCleish live during the Aire Rite Book Festival in Glasgow and in part two we leaf through the chapter of his

management career which is marked player recruitment. We learn how close Alec

came to bring in a certain Andres Iniesta to Rangers on loan and the repercussions that his inquiry had at the camp now.

Alec also explains how he was urged by his sons to sign a very young Lionel Messy

after they discovered a teenage prodigy while they were playing football manager.

Alex Time in charge at Ibrocks taught him a huge amount about signing players,

something which he didn't find easy to achieve at Birmingham City, where he worked under owners who required sugar when it came to agreeing transfers.

Alec also reveals his passion for film.

From sneaking into a cinema to watch clockot Wear Orange at the age of 12,

to being invited by Irvine Welsh to attend the world premiere of Transporting 2.

Choose life.

Choose to listen to this big interview. See you on the other side. Can I teach you with a serious question because there's a man in the room

grandmothers who knows and I told you that I got the hair dryer treatment

for Sir Alex deservedly before any of the Manchinited players did in 1980 and the World Cup because I

ventured that maybe it would be a good idea to play Jim Le instead of Alan Roff but I phrased it badly

by saying what the fuck is Jockstein doing playing in it and he in the middle of the tale rounded

on me and savaged me in public, don't you?

But aside from the use of vocabulary of the temper,

having played for both men

and knowing that Jockstein was revered for Sir Alex that he influenced him.

Yeah. Would you draw any comparisons between the two of them or which comparisons

would you draw? Well when I worked with Jockstein,

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