 An injury ended his football career in 1938 and he returned home to Glasgow where he worked as a machinist with John Brown & Company shipbuilders.McLeod was the grandson of cotters from the Isle of Mull who moved south to Glasgow due to the Highland Clearances.While playing for Derry City, he married Nellie Blair, daughter of a prominent local Protestant family, in 1938 and had a daughter Helen before moving back to Scotland.