George Greig

George Greig

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dateofbirth = 1871
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countryofbirth = Scotland
dateofdeath = 1940
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managerclubs = Dundee United

George Greig (1871 – 1940) was a Scottish football manager.

Career

Baillie Greig was a prominent Tory councillor on Dundee Corporation and a wholesale tobacconist when, in February 1934, he put up the necessary finances to prevent Dundee United from going out of existence, when the directors had already submitted the club's resignation from the Scottish Football League. This enabled the club to begin a slow recovery both on and off the park, but by the autumn of 1936 debts again began to rise. Greig offered to underwrite these debts, but only in return for the other directors resigning, thereby allowing him to run the club as a one-man operation. Despite having had no experience of professional football either as a player or as an administrator, he dismissed manager Jimmy Brownlie in October 1936, taking over himself in a role he described as manager/director. He left all training and what tactics there were to trainer Johnny Hart, but Greig himself insisted on selecting the team each week. Amazingly, this arrangement continued for eighteen months, until the end of the 1937-38 season. At that point Greig made his exit, selling his shareholding and handing over to a new board of directors although he did remain a trustee of the club.cite web|url=http://www.dundeeunitedfc.co.uk/index.asp?pg=284|title=Dundee United A - Z ( G )|publisher=Dundee United FC website]

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