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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Andy Watson (footballer born 1959), Billy Brown (footballer born 1950), Billy McNeill, Bobby Combe, Brian Rice, Dan McMichael, David Rowland (property developer), Derek Adams, Donald Park, Eamonn Bannon, Gareth Evans (footballer born 1967), George Stewart (footballer born 1947), Gerry McCabe, Gordon Marshall (footballer born 1964), Gordon Rae, Greg Miller (footballer), Guillaume Beuzelin, Hugh Shaw (footballer), Ian Westwater, Jackie McNamara, Sr., Jimmy Kerr (footballer), Jimmy McColl (footballer born 1892), Jimmy O'Rourke, Jocky Scott, John Fraser (footballer born 1936), Keith Wright (footballer), Lex Gold, Liam O'Brien (footballer born 1964), Mark Proctor (footballer), Mark Venus, Martin Ferguson (footballer), Martin Ling, Martin O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Clackmannan, Murdo MacLeod, Pat Quinn (footballer), Peter Cormack, Rod Petrie, Sammy Kean, Scott Y. Thomson, Tommy Craig, Tommy Younger, Tom Farmer, Willie Ormond. Excerpt: Martin Ling (born 15 July 1966) is an English football manager and former player, who is currently manager of Torquay United in League Two. He played in over 100 Football League matches for Exeter City, Southend United, Swindon Town and Leyton Orient, before moving into management where he led Orient for over five years from 2003 until 2009. Born in West Ham, Greater London, Ling started his career with Exeter City. After a brief spell at Swindon Town in which he made just two appearances, Ling began a five year spell with Southend United in 1986. During this period he won promotion from the Fourth Division twice, in 1987 and 1990. Swindon paid 15,000 to resign Ling in March 1991 where he played 150 league games. As a left-winger, he played in the Swindon side that won promotion to the Premier League (via the Division One playoffs) in 1993. Following his success at Swindon, Ling joined Leyton Orient who he would later go on to coach and manage. He played over 150 games for Orient before transferring to Brighton and Hove Albion in 2000 for a short period. Later in 2000, Ling rejoined Orient as a coach whilst continuing to play semi-professionally for Purfleet in the Isthmian League until hanging up his boots in September 2001. He was appointed manager of Leyton Orient in December 2003, after a spell as caretaker manager. In the 2005-06 league campaign he guided Orient to automatic promotion from League Two on the final day of the season, and then successfully kept the club in League One in the following season. The following season, Ling was able to bring Leyton Orient to 14th position in League One, after topping the table for three months early in the season. On 18 January 2009, with Leyton Orient in 21st place and in the relegation zone, the decision was taken for Ling and his assistant Dean Smith to leave the club by mutual consent. After leaving Orient, Ling was hired by Hibernian to set up a network of scouts in England for the Scottish Premier League club, wh