Alex McLeish isn’t surprised Billy Gilmour has taken English football by storm because he sees the Chelsea kid as a blast from the past.Even at the tender age of 18, McLeish reckons Gilmour already looks like a cross between French legend Alain Giresse and former Rangers skipper Barry Ferguson.Eck should know.
Giresse and his French side left him and his Scotland team-mates chasing shadows in a friendly back in 1984 while Ferguson was his midfield linchpin as boss at Ibrox.He said: “People usually ask for comparisons in situations such as these and I can give you two – one from my own playing days and one from my time in management.“He reminds me of former France midfielder Alain Giresse, whom I remember playing against for Scotland in a
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