Alex Mackie was manager of Middlesbrough F.C.

Middlesbrough F.C.

Middlesbrough Football Club , also known as Boro, are an English football club based in Middlesbrough, who play in the Football League Championship. Formed in 1876, they have played at the Riverside Stadium since August 1995, their third ground since turning professional in 1889...

 between June 1905 and May 1906.

Mackie played his early football

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 in Aberdeen before joining the Glasgow Association. He then became club secretary at Inverness

Inverness Thistle F.C.

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. After this, he spent seven seasons as player-manager of Sunderland

Sunderland A.F.C.

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 during one of their most productive playing periods, though his involvement in the Andy McCombie

Andy McCombie

Andrew McCombie was a Scottish international footballer who played at right back for North East England rival clubs Sunderland and Newcastle United. He won the Football League championship with both clubs, and was twice on the losing side in the FA Cup final...

 Scandal brought him a suspension imposed by the Football Association

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.

He was one of seventy applicants for the Middlesbrough job after Jack Robson

Jack Robson

John "Jack" Robson was an Englishman who was the full-time secretary manager of Middlesbrough, Crystal Palace and Brighton & Hove Albion, as well as manager of Manchester United...

 departed and his record at Roker Park

Roker Park

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convinced the board that he was the man for the job, starting work in the summer of 1905.

Following the football payments scandal at the end of 1905, he received a ban forbidding him from any active participation in football, unlike his predecessor who had the foresight to obtain a letter of absolution from the club chairman. However, Mackie was disillusioned with football by this point and so pre-empted the ban by voluntarily severing his interests.

He took over the Star and Garter Hotel in Marton Road, Middlesbrough in June 1906.