Willie Miller is a hero to tens of thousands of Aberdeen and Scotland fans after a glittering career that made him one of the country’s most capped and celebrated players, as well as the most successful ever club captain outside the Old Firm. This book gives a unique insight into professional football during Miller’s era and what it was like to lead a team managed by Sir Alex Ferguson and hold aloft the European Cup-Winners’ Cup after victory over Real Madrid in 1983. It also tells previously untold stories about Sir Alex gleaned from their seven successful years together at Aberdeen. During that time Aberdeen won three Scottish league titles, four Scottish Cups, one Scottish League Cup, the European Cup Winners’ Cup and the European Super Cup.
During a 65-cap career for Scotland, Willie played against some of the greatest players of his generation like Franz Beckenbauer, Socrates, Michel Platini, and Zico, and played alongside great international teammates such as centre-back partner Alex McLeish, Graeme Souness, Gordon Strachan and Kenny Dalglish.
Willie Miller has remained in the public eye since his retirement from competitive football, having enjoyed a three-year stint as manager of Aberdeen and a wide-range of television and radio work with the BBC, he is now director of football at Aberdeen and continues to be a much-sought after football pundit.
Rob Robertson is an award-winning staff sports writer with The Scottish Daily Mail. He is a former Scotland Young Journalist of the Year and Scotland Campaigning Journalist of the Year and has held staff jobs at top Scottish newspapers including the
Aberdeen Evening Express, the
Glasgow Evening Times, the
Edinburgh Evening News,
Scottish Sunday Mail and
The Herald. He collaborated with Willie for five years on his column for
The Herald and they have remained in touch ever since. Rob has previously written books on the rise of Scottish tennis star Andy Murray and the inside story of how Vladimir Romanov took control of Heart of Midlothian football club.
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