Totts: From the Kop to the Kelpies

The Alex Totten Story

Jeff Holmes

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785310683
• Year: 2015

In an incredible 50-year soccer career, Alex Totten has seen service at some of Scotland's biggest and best-loved clubs—yet from his high-profile beginnings as a player at Liverpool under Bill Shankly to his first job in the dugout at lowly Alloa, his feet have remained firmly on the ground. After two years as assistant at Ibrox, the ever-popular "Totts" took St. Johnstone to the hallowed land of the Premier League. Sacked in bizarre circumstances, he immediately bounced back to take control of top-flight Kilmarnock, and even the second managerial "red card" of his career couldn't stop him guiding his beloved Falkirk to the Scottish Cup Final—against Killie—just months later. At Brockville, Totten met his greatest ever soccer challenge when the Bairns entered provisional liquidation. However, that was nothing compared to the battle of his life—against a medical condition known as the "silent assassin."

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword by Sir Alex Ferguson
• Foreword by Walter Smith OBE
• An Al-Fresco Childhood
• Bill Shankly Calling
• Life After Liverpool
• The Par-fect Move
• Heading Stateside
• The Bairn Identity
• Stepping Into The Dug-Out
• Home Is Where The Heart Is
• Ibrox-Bound
• Taking On The World
• Jock’s Boy
• Son Of The Rock
• Off To Perth
• Pastures New For Saints
• In With The Big Boys
• Toe-To-Toe With Wattie
• Ruthlessly Axed
• Bayview And The BBC
• Taking Over From Tommy
• Renewing Old Acquaintances
• The Darkest Days
• Thank God It’s Crunchie
• Facing My Biggest Fight
• My Testimonial Year
• Family Ties
• Still Involved In The Beautiful Game
• Bibliography
• Photographs