Those who know him best look back at the vastly successful career of Willie Miller, who is featured in the BBC Scotland's Icons of Football.
BBC Radio Scotland listeners are used to hearing the authoritative voice of Willie Miller and the former Aberdeen and Scotland defender is featured in the latest series of BBC Scotland's Icons of Football.It was a great achievement, you can’t put it all on one person but in the moments when it really mattered, in the last 10 minutes, he was fantastic - him and McLeish, because they were having a go.
I think the best accolade Willie can have is that he captained the best Aberdeen team for years - and he never let them down.Willie could always work it out, it was like chess for Willie, he would always work out where the ball was going to land. He had an intelligence to narrow down where the ball was going to go.He’s got an aura about him, Willie. I think that was built up with his performances on the pitch and the way he handled winning.
He is the greatest central defender Britain has ever produced; Bobby Moore would have cleaned his boots in honour of him.Apart from being the best defender Scotland’s ever produced, and the captain of Aberdeen, he is such a lovely man. I don’t think he realises how special or important he is to people like me.
I found it a huge honour . You have to remember we’re going back 40 years; female reporters were kind of thin on the ground at that time. I think there were two or three of us in the whole of Scotland, television reporters.
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