Allan Preston

Allan Preston

Personal information
Full name	Allan Preston
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1985–1993	Dundee United	24	(1)
1993–1994	Hearts	21	(2)
1994–2000	St. Johnstone	144	(7)
2000	Queen of the South	8	(1)
	Career	197	(11 )
Managerial career
2004	Livingston
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Allan Preston (born 16 August 1969 in Leith, Edinburgh) is a retired Scottish professional footballer and manager. He is currently a radio sports pundit.

Playing career

Preston, who predominantly played at left-back, began his career as a 15-year-old with Dundee United in 1985. After spending eight years at Tannadice, he signed for Hearts, the team he supported as a boy, where he failed to make the grade. After only one season in Edinburgh he joined St. Johnstone. It was in Perth that he played the most consistent football of his career, which led to the St. Johnstone fansite Blue Heaven launching a campaign, entitled "Biscuits for Scotland", for his call-up to the Scotland squad. It was, however, unsuccessful.

Management

A year later he joined Scottish side Livingston as a coach, and in June 2004 he became the club's manager. He brought in another former St. Johnstone teammate, Alan Kernaghan, as his number two. Kernagahan had been player/manager at Clyde.

In November 2004, after just fifteen games in charge, Preston and Kernaghan were sacked after the team's seventh successive defeat. The following month he joined his current employer, Stellar Scotland, a subsidiary of The Stellar Group Limited, alongside former St. Johnstone teammates John Inglis and Paul Cherry.

In June 2000, after a hip injury ended his playing career, Preston became assistant to Macclesfield Town manager Peter Davenport, also an ex-Saint.

Radio

Preston is also a pundit on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.

External links

• Profile at Neil Brown's statistics site
• Allan Preston at Soccerbase
• Allan Preston on Twitter