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Jim Mallan
Personal information
Date of birth (1927-01-25)25 January 1927
Place of birth Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death 27 May 1969(1969-05-27) (aged 42)
Position(s) Right back
Youth career
Pollok
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1942–1953 Celtic 90 (0)
1953–1956 St Mirren 65 (0)
Total 155 (0)
International career
1949 Scottish League XI 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jim Mallan (25 January 1927 – 27 May 1969), also known as Jimmy Mallan, was a Scottish football player, who played for Celtic and St Mirren as a defender.

Career

His time at Celtic coincided with possibly the worst era in the club's history in terms of performances and trophies.[citation needed] He did win the Glasgow Cup in 1948–49, and had also featured for Celtic for four seasons during World War II which are not counted as official matches.[1] He was selected for the Scottish League XI once, in 1949.[2]

At St Mirren, he was responsible for scoring an own goal in the 1955 Scottish League Cup Final against Aberdeen, who went on to win the match 2–1.[3] He retired from playing at the end of the season, and later ran a public house in Paisley.

He died in 1969, aged 42.[4]

Personal life

Jimmy was the first of four generations of Mallan men to play football to a high level. His son, also Jimmy, played Junior football as a striker, scoring a hat-trick for Johnstone Burgh in the 1964 Scottish Junior Cup final.[5][6] His grandson Stevie, a striker born in 1967, played for several Scottish Football League clubs in the 1990s, and after moving to Junior football in his mid-30s, played for several more years and appeared in the 2011 Scottish Junior Cup Final at the age of 44.[7] His great-grandson, also Stevie, born in 1996, made his debut as a midfielder for St Mirren in November 2014[8] and played 100 games for the club before moving to England.

References

  1. ^ "Celtic profile". Fitbastats.com. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  2. ^ "SFL XI profile". London Hearts Supoporters Club. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  3. ^ Lifelong St. Mirren fan undertook epic journey to see League Cup Final win for Hearts, Scottish Professional Football League, 15 March 2013
  4. ^ Contemporary newspaper reports of his death provide his age as 44, but do not include his birthdate to support this. The profile at London Hearts has a different date of birth altogether (26/01/1931)
  5. ^ "On The Record". Daily Record. 20 October 2008. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  6. ^ Purdie, Tom (2011). The Scottish Junior Cup 1946-1975. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 9781445604176.
  7. ^ "Auchinleck Talbot 2-1 Musselburgh Athletic". BBC Sport. 29 May 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  8. ^ Mullen, Scott (24 November 2014). "Buddies boss can still beat the boos". Evening Times. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  • Jim Mallan at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
  • Jimmy Mallan, The Celtic Wiki
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