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Adam Blacklaw
Personal information
Full name Adam Smith Blacklaw
Date of birth (1937-09-02)2 September 1937
Place of birth Aberdeen, Scotland
Date of death 28 February 2010(2010-02-28) (aged 72)
Place of death Barnoldswick, England
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1956–1967 Burnley 318 (0)
1967–1970 Blackburn Rovers 96 (0)
1970–1971 Blackpool 1 (0)
Total 415 (0)
International career
1959–1960 Scotland under-23[2] 2 (0)
1963–1965 Scotland 3 (0)
Managerial career
Clitheroe
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Adam Smith Blacklaw (2 September 1937 – 28 February 2010[3]) was a Scottish professional football player who played as a goalkeeper.[4]

Blacklaw joined the Burnley ground staff as a schoolboy apprentice in 1954, directly from Frederick Street School in Aberdeen, earning a professional contract in October of that year.[5] He made his first-team debut on 22 December 1956 and spent over ten seasons with the Clarets. He took over as regular goalkeeper when Colin McDonald suffered a broken leg in March 1959.[6] During his time at Burnley, Blacklaw earned a League championship medal in season 1959–60 and an FA Cup runners-up medal in 1962. He played regularly for Burnley until 1965.[7]

Blacklaw joined Blackburn Rovers for £15,000 at the start of the 1967–68 season and stayed for three years before finishing his career with short spells at Blackpool in season 1970–71 and moving into the non-league game with Great Harwood in season 1971–72.[5] He later had a spell as manager of Clitheroe.[1]

Blacklaw represented Scotland at schoolboy, under–23 and full international levels. He played in two international friendlies in June 1963, a 4–3 defeat by Norway and a 6–2 win against Spain in Madrid.[7] His last appearance for Scotland was on 7 December 1965 in Naples, where they lost 3–0 to Italy in a crucial 1966 FIFA World Cup qualification match.[7][5]

Blacklaw died on 28 February 2010. For their fixture away to Arsenal on 6 March 2010, the Burnley players wore black armbands in memory of him.[8]

Honours

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Burnley

References

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  1. ^ a b Simpson, Ray (1996). The Clarets Collection 1946–1996. Burnley FC. p. 28. ISBN 0-9521799-0-3.
  2. ^ "Adam Blacklaw". www.fitbastats.com. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  3. ^ Burnley's title-winning goalkeeper Adam Blacklaw dies Guardian article
  4. ^ Adam Blacklaw 1937 – 2010 Archived 3 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine Burnley club website's extensive obituary, with photographs
  5. ^ a b c Lamming, Douglas (1987). A Scottish Soccer Internationalists Who's Who, 1872-1986 (Hardback). Hutton Press. ISBN 0-907033-47-4. ().
  6. ^ Maurice Golesworth (1965). Soccer Who's Who. The Sportsmans Book Club.
  7. ^ a b c Glanville, Brian (25 April 2010). "Adam Blacklaw obituary". The Observer. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  8. ^ "Adam Blacklaw". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  9. ^ Vernon, Leslie; Rollin, Jack (1977). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1977–78. London: Brickfield Publications Ltd. p. 490. ISBN 0354 09018 6.
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