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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1870 (1870) | ||
| Place of birth | Auchterless, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | Unknown | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1890–1891 | Aberdeen | ||
| 1891–1892 | Victoria United | ||
| 1892–1893 | The Heatherley | ||
| 1893–1894 | Inverness Thistle | ||
| Sunderland | |||
| Managerial career | |||
| 1899–1905 | Sunderland | ||
| 1905–1906 | Middlesbrough | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Alex Mackie (born inBanffshire in 1870) was a ScottishAssociation football player andmanager who took charge ofSunderland andMiddlesbrough.[1]
Mackie played his early football inAberdeen before joining theGlasgow Football Association. He then became club secretary atInverness. After this, he spent seven seasons asplayer-manager ofSunderland during one of their most productive playing periods, winning the1901–02 Football League championship,[2] though his involvement in theAndy McCombie scandal brought a suspension imposed bythe Football Association.
He was one of seventy applicants for the Middlesbrough job afterJack Robson departed and his record atRoker Park convinced the board that he was the man for the job, starting work in the summer of 1905. Following the football payments scandal at the end of 1905, he received a ban forbidding him from any active participation in football, unlike his predecessor who had the foresight to obtain a letter of absolution from the club chairman. However, Mackie was disillusioned with football by this point and so pre-empted the ban by voluntarily severing his interests.
He took over the Star and Garter Hotel in Marton Road,Middlesbrough in June 1906.
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