These were all above board, he insists, as they were all personal loans and 80 per cent were done through lawyers. Alongside the date of the transfer, the clubs involved and the transfer fee, it also displays the market value of the player at the time of the transfer. 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”. He was never arrested, let alone charged, and he has always insisted that he never set up an investment or Ponzi scheme that offered participants the chance to make big profits.

Known for his crossing, technical ability and speed, he was a proven goalscorer at every level including League Cup goals against Premier League clubs Manchester City, Arsenal and Aston Villa.Football gave McIndoe the opportunity to get out, even if his drinking and behaviour was so out of control at Luton Town, his first club, that he spent Millennium eve in the Priory hospital. When he took the job, he made it clear to Gretna’s board of directors that he would not be doing any interviews whatsoever, even if the questions were purely about football and club matters. Where do we start with the newly appointed manager who is standing in front of his dugout with a story that is so complex and, at times, controversial that his club decided on the eve of his last match to bar The Athletic from entering the stadium? 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. 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.

Cherry Red Books Middlesex County Football League 2013–2014 season: All competitions: Player's appearances – McIndoe Michael". Ex-professional footballer, Michael McIndoe, has broken his silence over claims he conned millions of pounds from fellow players, saying he has never run any kind of investment or Ponzi scheme.Dodging drugs, gangs and having my dad tell me he'd 'snap my leg in two' set me up for crazy career in football says Michael McIndoe". He later played for Derby County, Wolves, Coventry City, Bristol City, Yeovil Town, Hereford United, Doncaster Rovers, MK Dons, Barnsley, Clydebank and Stirling Albion. Another was pinned to a wall and had a cigarette lighter held against his arm for so long that McIndoe can still hear the screams all these years later. He was voted in the top five footballers of the year in The Times Football Yearbook 2004/05, [1] alongside Thierry Henry, Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard.

There is, however, another theory that he keeps a low profile because he knows that a lot of the people who lost out financially hold a serious grudge against him. 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. McIndoe, who spent his playing career in England with Bristol City, Coventry and Luton amongst others, replaces Alan Maybury at the cinch League 1 outfit. McIndoe, whose playing career also included spells at Hereford United, Yeovil Town, Doncaster Rovers, Barnsley and Milton Keynes Dons, has changed appearance.

McIndoe's first season at Doncaster was very successful with the Rovers winning the Third Division (fourth tier) title.

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. New appointed caretaker manager Andy Thorne put McIndoe straight back into the squad for the majority of the remaining matches in the 2010–11 season, [55] where he played a part in helping Coventry City retain their Championship status. He and his coaching staff left Gretna 2008 on 24 April 2023 to manage in the higher divisions of Scottish football. before McIndoe was declared bankrupt in 2015 and the Metropolitan Police launched a fraud investigation through the specialist Falcon Unit at New Scotland Yard. In the following 2002–03 season McIndoe made more appearances than any other player and was a key component in making club history, when Yeovil were crowned champions of the Nationwide Conference for the first time in 107 years.

Now 42, McIndoe still has a bald patch on the back of his head from being hit with a crowbar during a gang fight involving knives, bats and golf clubs. They tell the story at one of his former clubs about how McIndoe used to take a briefcase into the dressing room and, having given up alcohol, presented the impression that he was carrying important documents about property and investment. On Friday night, we got in touch with the club’s chairman, Alex Thomson, to confirm we would be at their game the following day and assure him that we understood and respected McIndoe’s position. On 4 November 2006 McIndoe also scored in the Yorkshire derby against Leeds United, from outside the box with a low-driven shot.