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Alex Scott (Falkirk)
Alex was a player with
Falkirk during the 1970-71 season - the penultimate of
his career. This meant that he played in the same team as
another Alex, the future Manchester United manager, Sir Alex
Ferguson. Alex
was also brother of one of the World of Soccer Star
players on this site, Jim Scott of Crystal
Palace. Indeed
in Alex's last season, 1971-72, both brothers played for
Falkirk, though never in the same team.
This is how the news is
reported at BBC SPORT FOOTBALL Wing
wizard Scott dies
Former
Everton, Rangers, Hibernian, Falkirk and Scotland
winger Alex Scott has died at the age of 64.
He passed away on Wednesday night after a short
illness.
Scott helped Rangers to four Scottish league titles,
the League Cup twice and the Scottish Cup before
leaving for Everton, where he won English
championship and FA Cup winners' medals.
He had succeeded the legendary Willie Waddell on
Rangers' right wing but scored a hat-trick in his
first match against hometown team Falkirk to
instantly endear himself to the Ibrox faithful.
Scott had pace and strength, had the ability to
produce a telling cross when it mattered and his 108
goals in 331 matches helped him pick up 16
international caps.
He found the net against Anderlecht and Red Star
Belgrade as Rangers reached the semi-finals of the
European Cup in 1959-60.
His personal favourite came in a 3-0 win over
Borussia Moenchengladbach the following season.
Scott added three others as Rangers reached the final
of the Cup-winners' Cup, one coming as Fiorentina
lifted the trophy with a 4-1 victory.
He shared the Rangers' record of 12 European goals
with Ralph Brand and Jimmy Millar until Ally
McCoist's exploits in 1996-97.
Scott lost his place at Ibrox to emerging teenager
Willie Henderson and that led to his £39,000 move to
Everton in 1962.
Yet he was still picked for Scotland while in
Rangers' reserves and was part of the Scotland team
that ended a 25-year barren spell of victories at
Hampden against England.
He returned north of the Border from Everton in 1967,
when he signed for Hibs and later went on to play for
Falkirk.
After retiring from football, Scott went into
business with his younger brother, James, who played
for Hibs, Newcastle, Crystal Palace and Falkirk.
Alex Scott - Football365.com reports:
Former
Rangers winger Alex Scott has died at the age of 64.
Scott, who
made his name as a winger during the 1950s and early
1960s, died after a short illness.
During his
time at Ibrox, Scott made 331 appearances scoring 108
goals.
While
wearing the light blue of Rangers, he won four League
Championship medals and a Scottish Cup medal and
helped land the League Cup for the club twice.
Scott,
capped 16 times by Scotland, scored a hat-trick on
his debut for Rangers in the 4-1 win against Falkirk
in March 1955.
The winger
featured in the Rangers team that went all the way to
the European Cup Winners Cup final in 1961.
Until the
prolific goalscoring exploits of Ally McCoist in
1996-97, Scott shared the Rangers record of 12
European goals with Ralph Brand and Jimmy Millar.But
the arrival of Willie Henderson ultimately led to
Scott's departure from Ibrox and he signed for
Everton for a fee of 39,000 pounds in 1963.
He enjoyed
domestic success during his time at Goodison Park and
won the league title in 1962-63, and followed that up
with an FA Cup win in season 1965-66.
After his
spell with the Toffees, Scott returned north to
Scotland to sign for Hibernian in 1967 and spent the
early part of the 1970s playing for hometown team
Falkirk.
When he
retired from football, Scott went into business with
his younger brother Jim, who played for Hibernian,
Newcastle, Crystal Palace and Falkirk.
Also see The Times - Alex Scott
www.evertonfc.com - the official
Everton Football Club Web Site
Brian Moore (Commentator)
Almost as long as I've
followed football Brian Moore has been on the telly
describing the match to me. When I was a child, my Mum,
would be there saying, 'I could put up with watching it
if only we didn't have to listen to all that rubbish as
well !' I ignored such criticisms. The crowd and the
commentators gave the televised match it's passion and
feeling. Anyway, in those days turning the telly down
meant standing up to do it, so I usually got my way.
Brian Moore is a voice
from my childhood that I grew up with and somehow always
expected to be there. To me it meant I was watching ITV !
For those of us unable to stay up to watch 'Match of the
Day' on Saturday night, there was always Brian Moore and
'The Big Match' Sunday highlights.
And curiously the
League Cup final was always a Sunday event - in what I
imagine was an early coo for independant televisions
viewing rights! Brian Moore has this strange place in my
imagination as the man who described Stoke City beating
Chelsea when George Eastham scored the League Cup winner.
But he did cover
several other games, too, right up until 1998, when he
relinquished the commentators role in favour of being a
senior Sports journalist. I was very sad to hear Brian
had died before he really had a chace to enjoy this role.
Here's how the news was
reported at BBC SPORT FOOTBALL
Broadcaster Brian Moore dies
Broadcaster
Brian Moore dies
Brian
moore, the 69-year-old television broadcaster died
early on Saturday morning at his home in Kent,
surrounded by his family.
Moore's
career spanned three decades after he joined London
Weekend Television in 1967, and he retired at the end
of the 1998 World Cup final in France.
Former
Arsenal goalkeeper and sports commentator Bob Wilson
(Arsenal) led the tributes.
"I am
just very privileged to have known him the way I got
to know him," said Wilson.
"I
think that if I had to give a tribute to Brian as a
commentator it would be that I don't think there is
anyone in the world of football, and football is a
big world, who had a bad word to say about him."
Moore began
his journalistic career sub-editing for World Sports,
before moving on to the Exchange Telegraph for two
years and The Times for three.
He joined
the BBC in 1961 as a radio presenter and commentated
on the 1966 World Cup final.
Two years
later, he moved to ITV and Moore became known as the
channel's "voice of football" until his
retirement.
He then
made a comeback in 1999 with a series of interviews
with footballers on Sky Sports.
Moore had a
heart scare in 1986 and underwent life-saving heart
surgery in 1987 and 1995 for blocked arteries.
He was
married to Betty Cole since 1955.
ITN - 'The voice of football'
dies at 69
writes:
One
of football's most famous commentators has died.
Brian Moore passed away at home just hours before
England's historic victory over Germany. He was 69.
Moore, who spent
much of his career at ITV, had covered England's 1966
World Cup win. Former players have been paying
tribute to the man known as "the voice of
football".
He joined LWT in
1967 and his commentating career spanned three
decades before he retired at the end of the 1998
World Cup final in France.
Friends and former
colleagues paid tribute to Moore, who died just hours
before England's 5-1 triumph against Germany.
Ex-Arsenal
goalkeeper and sports commentator Bob Wilson said
nobody had a bad word to say about him.
"I am just very
privileged to have known him the way I got to know
him," he told ITV.
"I think that
if I had to give a tribute to Brian as a commentator
it would be that I don't think there is anyone in the
world of football, and football is a big world, who
had a bad word to say about him."
Moore came from a
modest background in Benenden in rural Kent - his
parents were farm labourers and the family lived in a
council house.
He won a scholarship
at the age of 11 to Cranbrook in Kent. At school
Moore was the first XI captain of cricket, and he
continued to play throughout his life as a member of
Kent County Cricket Club.
He began his
journalistic career sub-editing for World Sports,
then worked on the Exchange Telegraph for two years
and The Times for three.
In 1961 Moore became
a presenter for BBC Radio and commentated on the 1966
World Cup Final.
He joined ITV in
1968 and commentated on its flagship Midweek Sports
Special from 1978 until he was sacked in 1986.
Moore was ITV's
"voice of football" for 31 years until his
retirement.
He then made a
comeback in 1999 with a series of 20 interviews with
footballers of the past.
One regret of his
career was when he asked Kevin Keegan live on air
whether David Batty would score in the 1998 World Cup
shootout against Argentina.
Keegan said yes to
Moore's question - and Batty promptly fluffed his
effort.
He made another
mistake when Nottingham Forest won the European Cup.
Forest had won the
trophy against Hamburg and Moore told 13 million
people on air that Hamburg had won the European Cup.
Moore was married to
Betty Cole since 1955. Moore said his faith was an
important part of his life and he attended church
every Sunday.
He turned to
Christianity after a heart scare in 1986. He had
life-saving heart surgery in 1987 and 1995 for
blocked art
There's further tributes at BBC SPORT FOOTBALL Moore 'A
fantastic commentator'
including from Ron Atkinson who says :
Among those to pay
their respects was former Manchester United manager
Ron Atkinson, who worked alongside Moore for several
years until his retirement after the 1998 World Cup.
"We've
had some great commentators in this game, but I think
he was the daddy of them all," Atkinson told BBC
Five Live.
"He
was always a great Englishman; he loved English
football, he was a fanatical English cricket fan and
he was a genuinely great guy to work with.
"'The
irony of it all was that I was just watching
(Michael) Owen being interviewed last night when all
of a sudden I got a phone call to tell me what had
happened."
Despite the
jubilation of England's resounding victory in Munich,
Atkinson said it was extremely sad Moore had not
witnessed the match.
"He
always said the best performance from England since
they'd won the World Cup was the 4-1 win against
Holland," he said.
"I
would have thought he'd put last night as even better
than that, and it's an even bigger tragedy that he
couldn't see it."
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