- Alex Mackie
Alex Mackie (born in
Banffshire ,Scotland in 1870) was manager ofMiddlesbrough F.C. between June 1905 and May 1906.Mackie played his early football for Aberdeen before joining the
Glasgow Association . He then became club secretary at Inverness. After this, he spent seven seasons asplayer-manager of Sunderland during one of their most productive playing periods, though his involvement in theAndy McCombie Scandal brought him a suspension imposed bythe Football Association .He was one of seventy applicants for the Middlesbrough job after
Jack Robson departed and his record atRoker Park 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 in June 1906.
References
*cite book|title=Middlesbrough, A Complete Record, 1876-1989 |isbn=0-907969-53-4 |last=Glasper |first=Harry |authorlink=Harry Glasper |publisher=Breedon Books Sport |pages=pp. 73
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