Jim McLean outside Tannadice on Saturday. And according to one of his most esteemed prodigies, Kevin Gallacher, the best way to honour the club’s greatest manager would be to knock Dundee off their pedestal 24 hours later.Gallacher won’t be in Tayside this weekend as he’ll be busy working as a pundit down south.
But that won’t stop the former United striker taking a quiet minute to remember the man who made him as a footballer and who made United a force in Europe.
Gallacher – grandson of Celtic icon Patsy Gallacher – had been destined to follow the family footsteps to Parkhead. But when McLean stepped into the bargaining for the then 13-year-old in the early 80s there was no turning back.
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