Alistair Murdoch McCoist, MBE is a Scottish former footballer who has since worked as a manager and TV pundit. McCoist began his playing career with Scottish club St Johnstone before moving to English side Sunderland in 1981. He returned to Scotland two years later and signed with Rangers.
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Alistair Murdoch McCoist, MBE (born 24 September 1962) is a Scottish former footballer who has since worked as a manager and TV pundit.
Towards the end of his playing career, McCoist started his media career. Between 1996 and 2007, he was a team captain in the BBC sports quiz A Question of Sport. McCoist began to scale back his media commitments in 2007 when he became an assistant manager to Walter Smith at Rangers.
He succeeded Smith as Rangers manager in 2011, but the club then suffered from serious financial difficulties. The company running Rangers was put into liquidation in 2012 and the team was then placed in the fourth tier of Scottish league football