Thanks to an industrial-strength quirk of fate, I sat down with Ian McCall 27 years to the day since he took charge of his first game as a manager.
Clydebank against East Stirling for historical accuracy.We met the morning after Scotland’s Nations League draw with Portugal and he had stories to offer on figures involved in that game at Hampden and any other topic I cared to mention.
How could it be any other way after 27 years, 956 games in the technical area that used to be known as the dugout and following the celebration of his 60th birthday?A time in his life in which he admits he has found “peace” for the first time in 10 years.
And the story, McCall is absolutely certain, hasn’t yet come to an end. Reaching a total of 1000 games as a manager remains an ambition but the man who left League Two Clyde, by what could genuinely be called mutual consent two weeks ago, won’t take any old job just to reach that milestone in the interests of personal satisfaction.“The game of football has, as a player and a manager, given me absolutely everything in life,” he says. “I wouldn’t cheat on the game by going anywhere for no good reason just to hit that figure for posterity.
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