STUART McCALL FACTFILE

Born: Leeds, 1964 (Age 52) Playing career: A midfielder, McCall joined Bradford at 16 and made his debut two years later. He would go on to score 43 goals in 285 games for the Bantams, winning multiple player of the year awards and a Third Division title in 1985. Signed by Everton for £850,000 in 1988, he quickly became a regular, making 132 appearances in three seasons and scoring ten goals, two of them at Wembley in a 3-2 FA Cup final defeat by Liverpool in 1989. He then made a £1.2m switch to Rangers in 1991. McCall’s seven-year stay at Ibrox was the most successful of his career, yielding six consecutive titles, five cups and a run to within one game of the inaugural Champions League final in 1993. Released in 1998, he returned to Bradford, winning promotion to the Premier League in his first season and keeping the Bantams up in his second. After a further 175 games for the club, he saw out his playing career with 89 games for Sheffield United, taking his career total to 929. McCall won the first of his 40 Scotland caps in 1990 and played in the 1990 World Cup (where he scored his only international goal), Euro ‘92 and Euro ‘96. Managerial career: Following his retirement in 2004, McCall coached under Neil Warnock at Sheffield United, then joined Bradford as manager in 2007. However, he won just 46 of his 133 games in charge and left in 2010 after failing to win promotion from League Two. Appointed by SPL side Motherwell in 2010, he followed a third-place finish in 2012 with consecutive runners-up spots behind Celtic, a record for the club. Having rejected the chance to manage Sheffield United in 2014, McCall subsequently struggled and departed in November 2014. Named interim manager of Rangers in March 2015, McCall won seven of his 17 games but was overlooked for the job after losing 6-1 to Motherwell in the promotion-relegation play-off. He subsequently joined Gordon Strachan’s coaching team with Scotland before rejoining Bradford in June.