Mark McGhee says that he has been sickened out of football by an SFA ban.
The former Scotland assistant was given a six match touchline ban a year ago after an angry exchange with a fourth official followed by a confrontation with a supporter at Aberdeen.
McGhee continued in the dug out as assistant to Gordon Strachan but after a two month stint at Barnet he has decided that his days in management are over.
“I made a decision after leaving Scotland that I wasn’t going to take another manager’s job,” he told The Sun. I wanted to do other stuff.
“I want to be doing other stuff rather than managing a footballing team. The last experience I had here with the six-match ban just sickened me. The way I was treated was unfair and disgusting.
“It done me in. I could manage down south where the ban didn’t stand but it left me tired of it.
“Being subjected to the whim of people I didn’t feel deserved to treat me that way.”
McGhee added: “I could never have imagined myself feeling this way.
“I have managed 960 odd games, but it doesn’t matter to me now. I try not to dwell on it but if I start thinking about it then I’m almost angry about what happened.
“The way I was treated does make me angry but I don’t lie awake at night thinking about the people who did it to me!”
McGhee started off in management at Reading before spells at Leicester and Wolves before his stock nose-dived.
Stints at Brighton and Millwall followed before a successful spell with Motherwell from 2007-2009 that led to a less than triumphant return to Aberdeen where he had won the Cup Winners Cup in 1983.
For some reason his touchline ban didn’t apply to his time with Barnet despite players moving from Scotland having suspensions follow them with their transfer.
