Alan Roderick Rough is a Scottish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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Alan Roderick Rough is a Scottish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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Alan Rough had a long club career, principally with Partick Thistle and Hibernian.
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Since retiring as a player, Rough had a spell as manager of junior club Glenafton Athletic and has worked in the media, particularly on radio phone-in shows.
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Alan Rough was born in Glasgow and was educated at Knightswood Secondary School.
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Alan Rough was eventually replaced by Andy Goram, who took his place in the Scotland squad.
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Alan Rough had spells with Celtic, Hamilton Academical and Ayr United before leaving senior football.
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Alan Rough played 53 times for his country, keeping a clean sheet in 16 of those games.
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At the time of his retirement, Alan Rough was Scotland's most capped goalkeeper, but this record has since been broken by Jim Leighton.
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Alan Rough came on as a half-time substitute because Leighton had lost his contact lenses.
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Alan Rough was selected for the finals squad by Alex Ferguson, but only played in one further international.
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Alan Rough had a successful five-year spell as the manager of Junior club Glenafton Athletic after being appointed in 1990.
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Alan Rough co-presented a football phone-in show on Real Radio Scotland until July 2012, when the station replaced the phone-in with music.
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Alan Rough later co-presented a football show along with Peter Martin shown on STV2 and STV.
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Alan Rough was appointed to the Partick Thistle board of directors in June 2018, and he resigned from this position in July 2019.
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Alan Rough married Margaret Barry, a Daily Mirror reporter, in 2009 after a seventeen-year engagement.
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Alan Rough was previously married to Michelle, a former model and Tennent's girl.
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Alan Rough was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to association football and to charity in Scotland.
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