DAVID BAIKIE is a man steeped in lower league football in Scotland.
There’s not a lot he hasn’t seen as a player, manager and now a chairman.
His most successful stay was at Tayport, where across 13 years he amassed nearly 30 trophies including two Scottish Junior Cups.
We'll hear the part former top athlete Liz McColgan played in helping Baikie create a positive mental attitude at the club.
He retired from management in 2015 but couldn’t stay away from Canniepairt and for the past four years he’s been heading up things in the boardroom.
We’ll hear how he’s finding life out of the dugout – and look back at his career in it.
With more teams voting to join the East of Scotland league this year, Tayport are now the only Fife team left in junior football.
But not for long according to David. He'll tell us how and why he sees them heading to the East next term too.
Perhaps that's no surprise, though, after David helped draw up a pyramid structure for the juniors 30 years ago - only to be reprimanded for doing so.
Plus David explains why car boot sales were so crucial to the club during the covid crisis.
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083 Gordon Robertson: Junior Cup final suits Yoker after shocking Petershill & 12 years at Clydebank
082 Alex McDowall: Replacing the Junior Cup, bumper prize money, why the conferences don’t work, reopening SJFA membership & life at Gartcairn
081 Ryan Caddis & Andy Bell: Making their mark at Craigmark, FIFA red tape, taekwando & going viral PLUS Jamie Nesbitt on double celebration with Thorniewood
080 Jamie McKim: Johnstone Burgh injustice in derby, promotion hopes & recruitment PLUS Adam Hopes on The Drum’s Conference C D-Day
079 Andy Souter: Grounds for optimism at Lanark, wearing pinnies Stateside & a better system for kids being freed at the top level
078 Chris Cameron on reviving Neilston & the shock end to his playing career PLUS Sean Kenney on promotion for Ardeer
077 Brian Blair on winning Div 4 after changing mentalities at Finnart PLUS Kennie Young on what happens next & should new teams join
076 Craig Palmer: Getting Arthurlie up & running after learning to walk again plus the moaners and farters in the Dunterlie dressing room
075 Neil Schoneville: Following a Gow legend as boss, the death of the old centre-half and why Colin O’Neill made him cry
074 Newmains United takeover, Craig Menzies on joining Pollok, Paul’s team of the season so far and the question about next term’s Division Three.
073 Mark Daly: Spud on losing his chips at Wishaw, Paul’s reasons for quitting Newmains & Moff miffed at Bankies cup drama
072 Jimmy Quigley: becoming Renfrew boss after 21 years, winning & losing Scottish Cup on same day and a Big Mac breakfast to start his testimonial
071 Brian Crawford: Football Manager to football manager at Larkhall, losing his job for scoring a winner & doing his cruciate after refusing to come off
070 Alan Robertson: Bonnyton in with the big boys, club man at Killie & Boydy & Naisy PLUS Murdo MacKinnon on Pollok‘s double drama
069 Tony McInally Part 2 on tennis & fancy suits, Kennie Young on phases to the finish & Sean Kenney on fireworks at Ardeer
068 Tony McInally Part 1: coal thieving in Cumnock, a year‘s ban for a first offence at Shotts & life at Pollok PLUS Mark Mackay‘s Best of the West
067 Peter Higgins: Royal Albert being made to pay the penalty and why he nearly quit after 30 years
066 Prof John McKendrick: refereeing where it started, warmups, red cards, Michael Palin & child poverty
065 Mark Mackay: Vale of Clyde exit & early season departures plus his 13-second red card
064 Lugar BT's Greg Gallagher & Andy Reid on their Rosebank revival, Greg's axe at Craigmark & serial winner Andy's lessons learned at Blackburn
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