Bobby Russell

Bobby Russell

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“From Easterhouse to Eindhoven” is former Rangers and Motherwell legend Bobby Russell’s autobiography. From his childhood in Easterhouse to his going from Scottish Junior Football straight into the first team of his beloved Glasgow Rangers, the book tells Bobby’s story, right up to the present day and is a fascinating insight into the career of a professional footballer and the people and players he encountered along the way.

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About Bobby Russell

Within two years of being told he wasn’t big enough or good enough by Sunderland, Bobby worked his way back into football via a Glasgow pub team, a Juvenile team and, finally, Shettleston Juniors, where he played just one season, helping them to league and cup success. During that season, Bobby was scouted by his boyhood club, Glasgow Rangers and provisionally signed while still with Shettleston. The very next season he went straight into the Rangers first team and was a huge part of them winning the domestic treble of League, League Cup and Scottish Cup.
 
Bobby went on to have a long and successful career at Rangers and Motherwell and, as you’ll read in his book, was recognised by those he played with and was managed by as one of the game’s good guys.
 
Could it happen today? Of course not. It was remarkable it happened back then! This is Bobby Russell’s unique story of a great football career that almost never happened!
“Bobby could have played in any company, he was that good. He had a great footballing brain and his partnership with Davie Cooper was uncanny at times”
Iain Ferguson
“Bobby had an uncanny knack of finding open space, which is what every manager wants in a midfield player. Because of that, Jock Wallace and I both compared him to the late, great John White of Spurs and Scotland, who we’d both seen play and that’s a pretty big compliment.”
Alex Totten
“When Bobby came io the club in 1977, the first thing I noticed was how well he trained, especially at Gullane, then how comfortable on the ball he was for a skinny kid from the Juniors – he used to just stroll past people like they weren’t there.”
Alex MacDonald