Mike Jackson (footballer)
Mike Jackson is a Scottish former professional association footballer and manager. He played for numerous clubs in Scotland and also had a spell in the Republic of Ireland. he played at Inside Forward. As a manager he was in charge of the club for whom he had made his greatest number of appearances as a player, Queen of the South.
Celtic
Mike Jackson joined Celtic having been with non league club, Benburb. Jackson was at Celtic for six seasons and contributed 23 goals from his 57 league appearances. However he did not firmly establish himself as a first team regular. He left Celtic during season 1962/63.[1]
St Johnstone, Third Lanark, Drumcondra & Clyde
Jackson then went to St Johnstone before transferring to Third Lanark during his second season.[1]
He then had a spell in Ireland with a club from Dublin's North side, Drumcondra, and then in the same season played for Clyde in which he scored twice in his three league games.[1]
Queen of the South
In 1967 Jackson joined the club with whom he was to have his greatest association, Dumfries club Queen of the South.[1] He spent three seasons at Palmerston Park in the era of the likes of Allan Ball, Iain McChesney, Billy Collings and Lex Law. Jackson played 94 league games in which he scored 22 times. Like Collings 69/70 was his last season playing for Queens in which the club missed out on promotion by one place.
Later playing career
Jackson played for Clydebank before returning to Benburb.[1]
Management
Jackson was twice manager of Queen of the South, the first time in the seventies managing ex team mates McChesney and Ball and also Jocky Dempster, Crawford Boyd and Nobby Clark. In a league cup quarter final Rangers needed extra time to eliminate Queens. He twice took QoS to the last eight of the Scottish Cup being eliminated by each of the Old Firm.
He returned in the 1980s managing the likes of Jimmy Robertson,[2] George Cloy and Alan Davidson.