Scott Arfield lifts lid on East Fife appointment and Rangers mentors he will lean on as Steven Gerrard reacts

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“He is the one figure I did want to come across and didn’t.“I have met loads of players throughout my career who have great stories about him. One of his mentors, who he says he still speaks to regularly, is John Hughes, who was manager when Arfield was breaking through with Falkirk.

“I have known him since I was 15 and he is giving me great pointers,” he says. “He has worked in part-time football and so knows everything about it.”Scott Arfield is unveiled to the media as the new East Fife player/manager. | SNS GroupThis is clearly one of the challenges facing Arfield and all those like him who take a perceived backwards step into the part-time environment in order to go forward.“That is something I spoke to part-time managers and ex-teammates about who have gone into management,” he says.

I don’t expect them to purely and utterly dedicate their lives like I have done for the last 20 years.”But he does expect a degree of professionalism, something he will be bringing despite the inevitable frustrations of training just twice a week.Four teams maintain close to full-time operations in League One, meaning East Fife must overachieve to prosper. When he spoke, people listened.” Beale, who is currently fighting for his job at Belgian club Zulte Waregem, was one of Arfield’s first ports of call.“‘Mick’, who perhaps didn’t have the reputation at the time, was very hands on,” he says.