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In summer 1996, Stade Rennes recruited two Scottish players. The forward Allan Johnston arrived from Heart of Midlothian, where he had started his professional career. Johnston, as his team-mate and fellow national Smith, leaved the club one year later. In the meantime, he played around twenty matches and scored two goals. He joined Sunderland in 1997, where he stood out and managed to join the Scottish selection a few months later. During seven years, he passed through many clubs of the English first and second divisions, with a one-year interlude with Glasgow Rangers, in which the club from Glasgow didn’t win any title. In 2004, he came back to Scotland for good, playing several seasons with Kilmarnock, and then with St. Mirren. In June 2010, he joined Queen of the South, a club located at Dumfries, in Scottish second division, where he became player manager in June 2011.