Willie Donachie

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Willie Donachie (born 5 October 1951) was a Scottish football player remembered as a great player both at club level for Manchester City and at international level for Scotland for whom he played in the 1978 World Cup.

He played at left back and was born in Glasgow in 1951. He played for Manchester City between 1969 and 1979 making 347 appearances and scoring 2 goals. He also won 35 caps for the Scotland national football team. He later had playing spells with Portland Timbers, Norwich City and Burnley. He was also assistant manager to Joe Royle at Oldham Athletic, where they enjoyed considerable success at Boundary Park, taking the unfashionable minnows to the Premier League, League Cup Final and epic F. A Cup semi Finals against Manchester United in the 1990's. He was also assistant to Royle at Everton and Manchester City.

He is now temporary manager at Millwall in London.

	Scotland squad - 1978 World Cup
1 Rough | 2 Jardine | 3 Donachie | 4 Buchan | 5 McQueen | 6 Rioch | 7 Masson | 8 Dalglish | 9 Jordan | 10 Hartford | 11 Johnston | 12 Blyth | 13 Kennedy | 14 Forsyth | 15 Gemill | 16 Macari | 17 Johnstone | 18 Souness | 19 Robertson | 20 Clark | 21 Harper | 22 Burns | Coach: MacLeod

Millwall F.C. - Current Squad

1 Pidgeley | 2 Ross | 3 Craig | 4 Elliott | 5 Robinson | 6 Whitbread | 7 Dunne | 8 McInnes | 9 May | 10 Byfield | 11 Morais | 12 Hackett | 13 Day | 14 Pooley | 15 Brighton | 16 Gaynor | 17 Senda | 18 Cottrell | 19 Brooks | 20 Morris | 21 Grant | 22 Braniff | 23 Trotter | 24 Ardley | 25 Bostwick | 26 Zebroski | 27 Shaw | 28 Phillips | 29 Mawene | 30 Hübertz | 31 Bakayoko | 32 Williams | 33 Fuseini | 34 Edwards | -- Estay | Manager: Donachie