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November 1, 2024
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November 1, 2024Paisley has plenty of famous footballing sons.
Paul Lambert won the Champions League as a player, before moving into management – winning the English League One title with Norwich City in 2010.
And then there’s Owen Coyle, who scored more than 200 career goals before embarking on a global managerial career that has so far taken in the United States and India.
Paul Gallacher is the third prominent footballer-turned-coach from Paisley, but his current employer – Hearts – are facing a battle to retain their Premiership status.
Cold Hearts
A respected goalkeeping coach, Gallacher has had his work cut out in improving Hearts’ defensive woes.
After ten games, they have conceded 16 goals – little wonder, then, that they’re a staggering 500/1 with many a bookie online to win the Scottish Premiership this term.
A bet calculator confirms that a £1 wager on the Jambos would yield £500 in profit; so little chance are they being given by the bookmakers.
Instead, simply preserving their Premiership status should be the aim of the game. Hearts have won just one of their opening ten games, losing six, and find themselves locked at the bottom of the league table alongside their Edinburgh rivals, Hibernian.
BREAKING: Hearts SACK Steven Naismith as boss amid winless start to season – just 44 days after handing him new contracthttps://t.co/YUAh4oZldd pic.twitter.com/pH1UQfcjUk
— Scottish Sun Sport (@scotsunsport) September 22, 2024
Even at this early stage of the 2024/25 campaign, it has been a tumultuous time at the club, with Jam Tarts icon Steven Naismith sacked as manager after overseeing what is, statistically, Hearts’ worst-ever start to a league season.
Neil Critchley has been brought in as his replacement, so everybody associated with the club – including Gallacher – will be hoping for a quick and dramatic turnaround in fortunes for Hearts on the pitch.
Playing for Keeps
From Paisley’s Gleniffer Thistle Boys Club to the Scotland national team, Gallacher’s playing days provided an extraordinary ascent through the professional ranks.
It was Dundee United, who snapped up the shot-stopper from Gleniffer Thistle, that would act as the proving ground for Gallacher. He made more than 100 appearances for the Tangerines, with a series of impressive displays earning him a call-up to the Scotland squad.
After spells with Norwich City and Dunfermline, Gallacher was signed by St Mirren for the 2009/10 season, securing his return to the Scottish Premiership.
He would later join SPL rivals, Partick Thistle, taking his first steps into coaching as part of his player-coach contract with the club.
Experienced goalkeeper Paul Gallacher takes up player/coach role at Hearts | https://t.co/Na3DIrtT05 pic.twitter.com/FEK74CH6LB
— Heart of Midlothian FC (@JamTarts) June 16, 2016
Gallacher would see out the rest of his career at The Jags, before signing a deal with Hearts that would again see him take on the hybrid player-coach role – though he wouldn’t feature in the first team for the Jam Tarts.
All in all, it’s been a remarkable career for a player raised on the park pitches of Paisley!
