"The board reckoned, if we could get there in five years, to the Premiership, that would be an achievement. It was not instant success after he left then League 1 rivals Raith Rovers to take over the Bairns. "We got close [to promotion] the first year and then got the invincible record the second year," McGlynn recalls. "When we came in and saw what we actually had in pre-season, it was really quite scary," he remembers. You maybe don't have the numbers, but you would concentrate on the quality and quality might mean physicality because I felt they were a very small team.

Source: BBC March 05, 2026 11:19 UTC