Allan Preston
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 16 August 1969 | ||
| Place of birth | Leith, Scotland | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1985–1987 | Dundee United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1987–1992 | Dundee United | 24 | (1) |
| 1992–1993 | Heart of Midlothian | 21 | (2) |
| 1993–1994 | Dunfermline Athletic | 26 | (5) |
| 1994–2000 | St Johnstone | 144 | (7) |
| 2000 | Queen of the South | 8 | (1) |
| Total | 223 | (16) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2004 | Livingston | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Allan Preston (born 16 August 1969) is a retired Scottish professional footballer and manager. He is currently a radio sports pundit for BBC Scotland.
Playing career
[edit]Preston, who predominantly played at left-back, began his career as a 15-year-old with Dundee United in 1985. He made his league debut in the 1987/88 season. After spending several years at Tannadice, he signed for Hearts, the team he supported as a boy. After brief spells with Hearts and Dunfermline Athletic he joined St Johnstone in 1994. It was in Perth that he played the most consistent football of his career.
Management and coaching
[edit]In June 2000, after a hip injury ended his playing career, Preston became assistant to Macclesfield Town manager Peter Davenport, whom he had played with at St Johnstone. Preston left Macclesfield within a year[1] to return to Scotland with Livingston as a coach, and in June 2004 he became the club's manager.[2] He brought in another former St Johnstone teammate, Alan Kernaghan, as his assistant,[3] Kernagahan had been player/manager at Clyde. In November 2004, after just fifteen games in charge, Preston and Kernaghan were sacked after the team's seventh successive defeat.[4]
Preston was unsuccessful in his application to be St Johnstone manager in April 2005.[5]
Other professional interests
[edit]Preston works as a football agent for ICM Stellar Sports.[6][7]
Preston has been a pundit on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound since 2008 and is nicknamed Biscuits.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Macclesfield 1-0 Kidderminster". BBC Sport. 7 April 2001. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
- ^ "New chief appoints Preston". BBC Sport. 4 June 2004. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
- ^ "Kernaghan is Livi assistant". BBC Sport. 17 June 2004. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
- ^ "Livingston sack manager Preston". BBC Sport. 25 November 2004. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
- ^ "Three in frame for Saints vacancy". BBC Sport. 4 April 2005. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
- ^ Lindsay, Matthew (27 January 2018). "My Sporting Saturday with Allan Preston: Kieran Tierney is living the dream at Celtic, he's very low maintenance". Herald Scotland. Herald & Times Group. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
- ^ "Agents & Scouts". ICM Stellar Sports. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
- ^ "Monday's football as it happened". BBC Sport. 25 April 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
External links
[edit]- Allan Preston at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
- Allan Preston at Soccerbase
- Allan Preston on Twitter
- 1969 births
- Living people
- People from Leith
- Scottish men's footballers
- Men's association football defenders
- Men's association football midfielders
- Dundee United F.C. players
- Heart of Midlothian F.C. players
- Dunfermline Athletic F.C. players
- St Johnstone F.C. players
- Queen of the South F.C. players
- Scottish Premier League players
- Scottish Football League players
- Scottish football managers
- Livingston F.C. managers
- Livingston F.C. non-playing staff
- Scottish Premier League managers
- Footballers from Edinburgh
- Association football agents
- Scottish radio personalities