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Alan Rough
Alan Rough is one of Scotland’s best known and best loved former footballers. Roughy went to two World Cup finals with Scotland in an international career that saw him play 53 times for his country – keeping 16 clean sheets in the process.
Books by Alan Rough
Ewen and Roughy’s Football Quiz Book
Football is the national game and the national passion: there’s no end to the amount of fierce debate, trainspotter trivia and amusing banter that it provokes in homes, work places and pubs across the country.
An unhealthy proportion of it seems to end up on Scotland’s top commercial radio station, Real Radio, on Ewen and Roughy’s Football Phone-in. Broadcasting for two hours each day from Monday to Friday, Ewen and Roughie have become the premier presenters in the football phone-in league, provoking debate and laughter across huge swathes of the country. The success of the show has been extraordinary.
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The Rough and the Smooth
Alan Rough: My Story.
The hapless Scottish stereotype or a gifted goalie? Roughie’s sixteen clean sheets in 53 internationals confirm he was the latter, cementing his place as the best - and best-loved - goalkeeper in Scotland’s history. He broke the mould and became a legend - for both his shot-stopping expertise and his ability to laugh at himself when the odd shot snuck past him.
He kept goal for Partick Thistle, Celtic, Hibs and his country - playing with the likes of Hansen, Souness and Dalglish - and was between the posts for most of Scottish football’s classic, and most calamitous, moments of the 70s and 80s.
Here, for the first time, he brings to life the comical and the controversial, the outrageous and the outlandish, in a career that spanned three decades.
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