| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Allan Preston | ||
| Date of birth | 16 August 1969 | ||
| Place of birth | Leith, Scotland | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1985–1993 | Dundee United | 24 | (1) |
| 1993–1994 | Hearts | 21 | (2) |
| 1994–2000 | St. Johnstone | 144 | (7) |
| 2000 | Queen of the South | 8 | (1) |
| Total | 197 | (11) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2004 | Livingston | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Allan Preston (born 16 August 1969 in Leith, Edinburgh) is a retired Scottish professional footballer and manager. He is currently a radio sports pundit for BBC Scotland.
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Preston, who predominantly played at left-back, began his career as a 15-year-old with Dundee United in 1985. After spending eight years at Tannadice, he signed for Hearts, the team he supported as a boy but after only one season in Edinburgh he joined St. Johnstone. It was in Perth that he played the most consistent football of his career.
In June 2000, after a hip injury ended his playing career, Preston became assistant to Macclesfield Town manager Peter Davenport, whom he had played with at St Johnstone. Preston left Macclesfield within a year[1] to return to Scotland with Livingston as a coach, and in June 2004 he became the club's manager.[2] He brought in another former St. Johnstone teammate, Alan Kernaghan, as his assistant;[3] Kernagahan had been player/manager at Clyde.
In November 2004, after just fifteen games in charge, Preston and Kernaghan were sacked after the team's seventh successive defeat.[4] The following month he joined his current employer, Stellar Scotland, a subsidiary of The Stellar Group Limited, alongside former St. Johnstone teammates John Inglis and Paul Cherry.
Preston was unsuccessful in his application to be St Johnstone manager in April 2005 and thus his Livingston job represents his last football role.[5]
Preston has been a pundit on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound since 2008 and is nicknamed Biscuits.[6]
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