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McCoist the celebrity

Some of us wondering if maybe there is too much of this celebrity stuff now in Scottish football. You know the sort of thing––managers too concerned to be seen at night clubs; Rangers players hanging about with Bobby Murray at Wimbledon or appearing in documentaries about global warming.

Ally himself has fallen foul of this. Remember, he was in that film A Shot at Glory with Dee Hepburn and Buster Keaton (playing an ex-Celt! I ask you!). I also understand he sang backing vocals on Aneeka Rice's 1981 hit, Japanese Boy. What's that all about?

Can we please get back to managers and chairmen who are football men through and through, like David Moyes or, say, Jim Moffat? Real angry-face blokes?

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posted on 6/8/13

I think maybe the rot set in when McCoist was on that slick ITV programme The Premiership about 10 years ago with Des Lynas and Jimmy Logan's daughter, Gabby. Remember that? Famous for 'posing and punditry' as they said in the Belfast Telegraph, rather than football. In one 70mns episode in 2003 there was only 11 mns of highlights and the rest was jokes, competitions and singing. I ask you. No wonder Match of the Day won it back.

They had a contest, 'Fan of the Week', which allegedly was rigged, with Jack Charlton winning it one time.

If Ally had paid less attention to the TV high life and worked his way up from Gala Fairydean or something he might have a few other options up his sleeve now rather than just telling Norman Green he's a freakshow.

Wake up, Ally! This isn't Strictly Come Prancing you know. It's a man's game.

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comment by Hector (U3606)

posted on 6/8/13

Walter said Ally and his boys were up to the task.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i208/Rangers_7/Waltersrage.gif

Walter has never really cared about Rangers, he doesn't support them, they have always supported him.

posted on 6/8/13

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Probably my fav wum on here for the nonsense in this thread alone

Some pretty funny stuff, keep it up

"They had a contest, 'Fan of the Week', which allegedly was rigged, with Jack Charlton winning it one time."

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Sorry, it was not of course Buster Keaton in A Shot at Glory, but Diane Keaton, well-known collaborator with Woody Allen and Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings.

Details aside, McCoist's media exploits have certainly coloured the fans' views of his managerial performance. It is not known by many that when the first rumblings of the Ibrox degringolade were nothing but distant bongos on the acoustic horizon, Ally was busy commentating with Mike Tyson for Al-Jazeera on the Germany v Australia game at the South African World Cup. What's that all about? He ought to have been selling shares or signed charity strips or something. It was an emergency, Ally! It still is. So less of the 'Ally's Tartan Army' globetrotting, please, and more of the coaching badges and quality assurance reports.

It's a bit more left field, but a mate of mine who knows about these things says that if you play back Ally's voice-acting contributions for FIFA Manager 2008 at a very slow speed you hear him saying some very unflattering things about Ian Murray in a kind of code––you know the sort of thing, like rock albums with encrypted predictions of the Paul McCartney shooting. It's all very worrying.

Is it true that McCoist also plays the saxophone?

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posted on 8/8/13

I know. It kept not publishing my full text.

Conspiracies..?

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