Alan Roderick Rough is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
26 Facts About Alan Rough
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Alan Rough won 53 caps for Scotland and played in two FIFA World Cups.
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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 was won the SFWA Footballer of the Year and finished runner-up for Scottish Football Personality of the Year in 1981.
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Alan Rough was chosen for the Scotland under-18s for the UEFA under-18 Euros held on home soil in 1970.
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Alan Rough played in two FIFA World Cup tournaments for Scotland, in 1978 and 1982.
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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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Alan Rough was Scotland's most capped goalkeeper at the time of his retirement, but that record was 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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Alongside Ewen Cameron, 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, STV.
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Alan Rough continues to be a co-host on the show with Peter Martin on Mondays and Fridays covering Scottish football.
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Alan Rough was appointed to the Partick Thistle board of directors in June 2018.
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Alan Rough resigned from this position in July 2019 following a boardroom coup which saw chairman Jacqui Low ousted.
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Alan Rough was re-appointed to the board later in 2019, when Low returned to the chairperson role after the purchase of club shares by her friend Colin Weir.
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Alan Rough remained a non-executive director at the club until December 2022, when several board members were forced to resign due to fan discontent at the lack of movement on a promise of fan ownership that had been made by Weir before his death.
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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 an electrician before playing football professionally, and he liked to play golf and tennis in his spare time.
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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.