Alex Menzies
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Infobox football biography Alex "Big Ming" Menzies was a Scottish professional footballer, who played for Cowdenbeath and Stirling Albion amongst others.
A former coal-miner, (Ferguson 2006) Menzies joined Cowdenbeath, his hometown club, in 1948. Menzies, a tough-tackling wing half was a member of the side that took Rangers to the brink of defeat over a two-legged Scottish League Cup tie in September 1949.[1] The late Harry Ewing said that "If you cut Ming in half, like a stick of Blackpool Rock he would have Cowdenbeath printed around his waist.".[2] After his death in 1990, Ewing recommended Cowdenbeath's new stand be named "The Alex Menzies Stand", a suggestion that was adopted by the board.[3]
Everyone in Cowdenbeath knew Big Ming. He belonged to the Desperate Dan school of Scottish footballing manhood – Ron Ferguson
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Bibliography
- Ferguson, R Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil, 1993 Aberdeen, Northern Books for Famedram Template:ISBN
- Ferguson, R Helicopter Dreams, 2006 Aberdeen Northern Template:ISBN
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- Alloa Athletic F.C. players
- Cowdenbeath F.C. players
- Dumbarton F.C. players
- Scottish Football League players
- Scottish men's footballers
- St Johnstone F.C. players
- Stirling Albion F.C. players
- Year of birth missing
- Footballers from Cowdenbeath
- Scottish miners
- Men's association football midfielders