Allan Johnston

Allan "Magic" Johnston (born 14 December 1973) is a former Scottish international professional football player and current manager of Dunfermline Athletic.

He started his professional playing career with Heart of Midlothian and then followed on to French club Rennes before a spell in English football with Sunderland before returning to Scotland with Rangers. He then returned to England with Middlesbrough and Sheffield Wednesday. He returned to Scotland and played out his playing career with Kilmarnock, St. Mirren and Queen of the South. He played for the Scotland national football team at senior and u-21 level.

He started his managerial career in 2012, as player-manager of Queen of the South. He won the Second Division championship in his first season as a manager, then moved to Kilmarnock. He left that position after 18 months, after a dispute with the club's board about the sale of a player.

Playing career

Hearts

Johnston began his career with Heart of Midlothian, becoming a first-team regular in the mid-1990s. In January 1996, Johnston scored his first career hat-trick, scoring all three goals in a 3–0 win against Rangers at Ibrox. He picked up a Scottish Cup runners-up medal that season in the defeat to Rangers where Brian Laudrup dominated the final.

Allan Johnston (politician)

Joseph Allan Johnston (28 September 1904 – 15 May 1974) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in London, Ontario where he was alderman from 1933 to 1935 and mayor from 1938 to 1940. He also became a merchant by career.

Johnston attended public and secondary schools in London. He operated a typewriter business and became a London city alderman from 1933 to 1935, and was the city's mayor from 1938 to 1940.

Johnston was first elected to Parliament at the London riding in the 1940 general election. After one term in the House of Commons, Johnston was defeated by Park Manross in the 1945 election.

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Allan Johnston (Australian footballer)

Allan Vincent Johnston (23 July 1906 – 6 June 1944) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

He was killed in a car accident near Wangaratta on 6 June 1944, which was caused by him sneezing while at the wheel.

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Allan Johnston (advertiser)

Allan Johnston is an Australian advertising creative executive and copywriter who enjoyed particular success as a jingle writer in the 1970s and 80s. Together with his long-time business partner Alan Morris, he formed the Australian advertising agency Mojo which enjoyed much Australian and some international success in the 1980s and whose name survives today as Publicis Mojo, an Australian subsidiary of the French multinational advertising and communications company holding Publicis Groupe.

Career

Born in Adelaide Johnston started out as a copywriter in that city before taking a job as an assistant producer in an Adelaide ad agency, then moving into the copy department writing jingles. He relocated to Sydney in 1968, joining an agency called Marketing and Advertising, later to be known as Hertz Walpole Advertising. In the mid 70s he was teamed with freelance writer Alan Morris and together they had immediate success as a team working on campaigns for Hertz Walpole's clients Meadow Lea margarine ("You oughta be congratulated") and Tooheys beer ("How do you feel?"). In 1973 they left the agency and in 1975 started their own consultancy and continuing to work on such accounts as they grew their business. In 1979 their creative consultancy became the full-service ad agency Mojo and Meadow Lea and Tooheys amongst other clients, signed with the new shop.