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‘Unknown’ enforcer still wins admirers

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The LeaguePaper Team
1 October 2017

PROFILE ON ALEX NEIL PRESTON NORTH END MANAGER

By Chris Dunlavy

ALL SMILES: Alex Neil is impressing at Preston
PICTURE: Action Images

ALEX Neil had been at Hamilton Academical for just three months when manager Billy Reid presented him with the captain’s armband.
Neil was shocked. Incumbent Marvyn Wilson, a hardas- nails midfielder from Bellshill, was 32, eight years his senior and a decade more calloused.
Reid, though, had no doubts. “His leadership qualities were obvious,” said the 54-year-old, now assistant at Swedish side Ostersunds.
“Alex had this steeliness,...

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