Ally McCoist
Ally McCoist, the United Kingdom forward, made 72 appearances for Sunderland. He found the net 14 times, averaging 0.19 goals per game. His most prolific season in our data was 1982-83, with 12 goals.
Alistair Murdoch McCoist ( / m ə ˈ k ɔɪ s t / ; born 24 September 1962) is a Scottish former footballer who has since worked as a manager and TV pundit. McCoist began his playing career with Scottish club St Johnstone , before moving to English side Sunderland in 1981. He returned to his homeland two years later, signing with Rangers . McCoist had a highly successful career with Rangers, becoming the club's record goalscorer and winning nine successive league championships between 1988–89 and 1996–97. He later played for Kilmarnock . McCoist was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2007. [ 3 ] He is also a member of the Scottish Football Hall of Fame , having gained 61 international caps. [ 4 ] A prolific striker , he is the fifth-highest all-time goalscorer in the top tier of the Scottish football league system , having scored 260 times for Rangers and Kilmarnock between 1983 and 2001. Towards the end of his playing career, McCoist started a media career. Between 1996 and 2007, he was a team captain on the BBC sports quiz A Question of Sport . He began to scale back his media commitments in 2007, when he became an assistant manager to Walter Smith at Rangers. He succeeded Smith as Rangers manager in 2011, but the club then suffered from serious financial difficulties. Rangers went into liquidation in 2012 and the club was placed in the fourth tier of Scottish league football. McCoist helped them win successive promotions to the second tier, but after a poor start to the 2014–15 season McCoist handed in his 12 months' notice in December 2014 and was placed on g — Wikipedia
- Position
- FW
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Birthplace
- Bellshill
- Born
- 24 Sept 1962
- Height
- 178 cm
Sunderland manager Alan Durban signed McCoist in August 1981. [ 12 ] The £400,000 transfer fee spent on the striker made him Sunderland's record signing. [ 15 ] McCoist's time at Sunderland was unsuccessful, however: he scored nine goals in 65 appearances for a side struggling at the foot of the English First Division. He managed two goals during the 1981–82 season , his first coming against Nottingham Forest and his second a curling effort from the edge of the box against Southampton . [ 15 ] Three goals in three pre-season games against Dundee , Dunfermline Athletic and former team St Johnstone were followed by a goal against European champions Aston Villa on the opening day of the 1982–83 season in a 3–1 win. He followed this up with a goal against Brighton & Hove Albion , meaning he had matched his previous season's tally midway through September. [ 15 ] October 1982 proved to be the highlight of McCoist's spell with Sunderland, as he scored five goals in as many games against Norwich City , Southampton, Manchester City , Everton and Wolverhampton Wanderers. With seven goals scored by the end of October, McCoist failed to score another goal in a Sunderland shirt. Despite this, he finished third-top scorer for Sunderland in 1982–83, one goal behind Nick Pickering . [ 15 ] In early 1983, Alan Durban invited McCoist into his office and informed him that Rangers' John Greig had called him with an interest in signing the player. "He said, 'Do you fancy it?'" recalled McCoist. "And I said, 'Aye. I've got to be honest with you.' He said, 'I think you should go, for the simple fact that I don't think I'll be here in three or four months.' Sure enough, he got the sack relatively soon after that." [ 9 ] — Wikipedia
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