Icons of Football: Gary McAllister

A graphic showing Gary McAllister three times, once in a white shirt, once in a black shirt in the centre and once on the right in a red jersey. Image source, BBC Sport
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Gary McAllister made the game of football look easy. The proverbial classy midfield player who saw the full picture, and could affect it, in the crucial seconds before his opponent.

Unprepared to succumb to a story that began with knock-backs, McAllister wrote his own place in the history and folklore of every club he played for - a winner at Motherwell, champion at Leeds, immortal at Liverpool, and a Scotland captain of some repute.

There were lows to counter the highs, and McAllister discusses these with searing honesty on the latest episode if Icons of Football.

With contributions from Steven Gerrard, Gordon Strachan and Ardal O'Hanlon, this is the story of one of the greatest Scotland players of his, or any, generation.

Watch Icons of Football: Gary McAllister on BBC iPlayer.