I strongly believe that Michael can lead us into our next phase and help us achieve our goals in the future, making players better and bringing his knowledge and experience inside the club. On 3 November 2018, McIndoe played for Stirling Albion under manager Kevin Rutkiewicz in a 3–0 win against Berwick Rangers. In the 2013–14 season McIndoe along with old Luton Town and MK Dons teammate Jude Stirling helped to coach young players at London Elite while playing alongside them. I’d lost my job, my girlfriend, my driving licence and had huge gambling debts,” McIndoe said in an interview with The Times in 2005.

It is a detailed account of his upbringing on the Calders Estate in Edinburgh, his professional football career and his nightclub on Oxford Street in London. All of which makes his own life — or certainly parts of it — feel like a success story, of sorts, given that he had 13 years as a professional footballer, won Scotland B caps and would have played in the Premier League but for Bristol City losing to Hull City in the 2008 play-off final.There is only one working turnstile among the whitewashed walls of Raydale Park, home of Gretna 2008 FC, and it is manned by the club’s chairman. As with any other financial investigation, the prosecution – and defence – cases will hinge on what can be proven and it is forensic accountants who set about amassing that evidence. On a 22 April 2007 Wolves played Birmingham City in the West Midlands derby, McIndoe scored two headers but then missed a penalty in the last minute for a hat-trick, losing 3–2. We wanted to know if the chairman, or anybody else from the club, would like to say anything positive about the turnaround in results?

McIndoe was appointed as Gretna’s sporting director in the summer and took over as manager last month after a dismal start to the season.On Saturday, they reverted to type by crashing out of the Scottish Cup with a 4-1 home defeat to Drumchapel United but it has still been an encouraging start for Gretna with a new manager who is described by one former team-mate as “one of the most hated men in football”. His case was always that they were personal loans and, because of the debts he accrued through gambling and failed business ventures, he was unable to pay them all back. After being given the caretaker manager role, [65] in his first match, he led Gretna 2008 in a 3–1 win against Edinburgh University in the first round of the Scottish Cup.

McIndoe joined Luton Town as a youth in 1996 and was an integral part of an FA Youth Cup run, losing to eventual winners Leeds United in the semi-finals. Doncaster Rovers' League Cup run was the highlight of the 2005–06 season, [27] beating Premier League sides Aston Villa and Manchester City with McIndoe scoring in both games. Some reports, challenged by McIndoe, have stated that more than 300 people were owed money, a Who’s Who of the football industry that included Robbie Keane, Jimmy Bullard, Gabby Agbonlahor and many others from the Premier League to the lower divisions. For the second season running he finished as Rovers' top scorer with 13 goals (10 from penalty kicks), and was voted into the PFA Team of the Year for League One. McIndoe secured pre-season friendlies against Oldham Athletic, AFC Telford United and Hertford Town.In 2003 Michael won Conference Player of the Year, in a unanimous vote after being promoted into the Football League with Yeovil Town. McIndoe grew up in a culture of drugs and gang warfare that meant he was carrying a knife at the age of 12. His talent was never in question but his off-field problems with alcohol addiction meant in December 1999, he was entered into the Priory.

Meanwhile, files are still sitting with the Crown Prosecution Service as it decides whether or not to charge him. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and improve our understanding of you. His father, who was 6ft 5in (196cm) with a temper, pulled him off the sofa, dragged him across the floor and jammed his son’s foot on top of a coffee table. On 15 September 2007 he scored his first goal for the Robins in an away match against Coventry City winning 3–0. City are without a win in the league this term with two points from their nine league matches to date.He was named Doncaster Rovers Player of the Year and was the only player in the championship winning side to be named in the PFA Team of the Year. Derby County manager Terry Westley brought McIndoe in on loan in March 2006, as he tried to try to help keep the club in the Championship.