Alan Rough affectionately known as Roughy
Alan Rough is an former Scotland and Hibernian Goal Keeper who currently hosts his
own Radio Show. He is know to his listeners as Roughy
Alan signed as a goalkeeper for Partick Thistle in 1969 and notched up an impressive
410 league appearances before signing for Hibernian in 1982 and playing a further
175 league games. He also had a short stint with Celtic turning out 5 times.
He was a member of the famous Partick Thistle side that won the Scottish League
Cup in 1972, and also won a First Division Champions medal in 1976. With Hibernian
he gained a Scottish League Cup runners up medal in 1986. His other honours
included Scottish Youth International caps, nine Under 23 caps, a Scottish League
cap and he was also named as The Scottish Football Writers Player of The Year in
1981. Between 1975 and 1986 Alan was capped 53 times for Scotland, with 16 clean
sheets in the process. In many of Scotland's most memorable games, the famous
curly perm was the trademark of one of Scotland's greatest ever goalkeepers. He
played in all the qualifying rounds in the build up to the 1978 World Cup and also in
THE decider against Wales at Anfield (remember the save from John Toshack). He
also played in the group games against Peru, Iran and Holland.
These days as well as being an excellent after dinner speaker, Alan is heard daily on
Scotland's best Football Phone in. The Real Radio Phone in and still has that fine
head of hair.
George McNeill
George started his sporting career as a professional footballer playing part time with
Hibs, Morton & Stirling Albion.He gave up his football to concentrate on athletics because
as he had signed professional forms as a footballer, he was banned from running as an
amateur. He therefore had to concentrate on the professional running circuit. He started
by winning the 1970 centenary "Powderhall Sprint" in Edinburgh, which is the oldest and
most renowned professional race. After his victory at Powderhall, he continued to
improve to world class times and in August of 1970 he set a new professional world
record for 120 yards at the press charities sports at Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh.
On January 1st 1971 he ran 110 metres in 11.00 seconds which equates to around 10
seconds for the more popular 100 metres.
In 1972 he won the World professional sprint title when he defeated Olympic gold
medallist Tommie Smith in a four race series at Wakefield. Throughout the seventies he
continued to run on the relatively small highland games circuit in Scotland as well as
travelling to the more lucrative professional scene in Australia. In 1975 he had the
opportunity to run against world class opposition when the newly formed International Track Circuit came to the UK.
George went on to win the biggest professional race in the world in 1981, when he won the "Stawell Gift" in Australia.
By coincidence this was also in its centenary year. Throughout his career he also had to run the small family business
where his training as a chartered quantity surveyor was put to good use. On retiring from athletics, George has
involved himself with fitness coaching with various football teams including Livingston F.C. where he was part of a
management team that took them from the Scottish 3rd Division into the Scottish Premier Division and a place in
Europe in the space of eight years.
Sunday 27th November 2011 - 12.30pm for 1.00pm
Guest Speakers George McNeill and Alan Rough
Tickets £20 - See Neil Gordon or John Fraser
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