The Managers

Ask any Rangers fan to name their best managers, Jock Wallace and Walter Smith will be candidates. With Celtic Jock Stein and Martin O’Neill will be immediately come out. St.Mirren fans will possibly think of the present resurgence under Gus Mc Pherson, before they revel in the cup wins of days long gone. So fans everywhere will argue the glories of the past, recall the good days, and mull over the not so good.

With Arthurlie it is no different, there are only two outstanding candidates. The dark year of 1929 when the club was unable to meet the league’s guarantee of 200 quid for the remaining four matches, meant the shutters were pulled on Arthurlie as a senior team. However willing hands came forward in the crises, and Arthurlie managed to field an amateur team in 1929/30.Next we joined the ‘rebels’ in the Intermediate League, and reconciled with the SFA just over a year later Arthurlie started out on their Junior life.
Then fortune smiled on Arthurlie by way of a renewed interest in the club, and two men were to play a dramatic part in the resurgence of the club. President was an Italian immigrant who ran a Café in the Main Street, and Match Secretary was a local schoolteacher. Make no mistake those two men built a foundation that survives to the present day, and the proof of that will be the subject of a future programme article.
The first managerial giants of Arthurlie FC were commonly referred to as ’THE TWO TOMMIES’. President Tommy (Eugenio) Arrighi, and our first great manager Tommy Taylor. The second and other candidate arrived many years later in 1986, Fergus Alexander Ferguson. Indeed Fergie was Arthurlie’s first manager, as before that a match secretary was appointed at the AGM and their duties didn’t always mean they had full control in team matters. Some did, and none more so than Tommy Taylor, oh he was manager all right, and with the financial acumen of the other Tommy made Arthurlie a force in the game we still are today.

Click on a manager for an overview of their term

Gary Faulds

Frank Lynch

Jim McQuade

Fergus Ferguson

John Dove

Tommy Taylor - Coming Soon