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Gerry McAloon
Personal information
Full name Gerald Padua McAloon[1]
Date of birth (1916-09-13)13 September 1916
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death 13 April 1987(1987-04-13) (aged 70)
Position(s) Inside forward
Youth career
St Francis
1934–1938 Brentford
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1938–1939 Brentford 21 (8)
1939–1945 Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 (1)
1939–1940 → Hamilton Academical (guest) 21 (10)
→ Airdrieonians (guest)
→ Albion Rovers (guest)
1941–1943 → Dumbarton (guest) 34 (21)
→ Dunfermline Athletic (guest)
1943–1944 → Celtic (guest) 21 (10)
1944–1945 → Morton (guest)
1945–1946 Brentford 7 (4)
1946–1948 Celtic 20 (12)
1948–1949 Belfast Celtic (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gerald Padua "Gerry" McAloon (13 September 1916 – 13 April 1987) was a Scottish professional football inside forward who played in the Football League for Brentford and Wolverhampton Wanderers.[1] He later played for Scottish giants Celtic and in Northern Ireland.

Career

Early years

An inside forward, McAloon began his career in his home city Glasgow with junior club St Francis. He departed in 1934.[1]

Brentford

McAloon moved to England to sign for Division Two side Brentford.[1] Owing to the abundance of talent at the club in the Bees forward line following the club's ascension to Division One in 1935, McAloon spent much of his time with the Bees playing for the reserve team in the London Combination.[1] His prolific goalscoring form in the first half of the 1937–38 season, notching 18 goals, led manager Harry Curtis to give McAloon his senior debut in a league match versus Middlesbrough on 26 March 1938, a 1–0 win for Brentford.[2] He scored his first goal for the club in the following game (a 6–1 demolition of Grimsby Town) and made a significant impact in the Bees' run in, scoring five goals in six games to help the club to a second successive sixth-place finish.[3] Brentford's league form was poor during the following season and McAloon failed to get much game time, making 16 appearances and scoring four goals before departing the club in March 1939.[1][2] In a year as a first team player at Griffin Park, McAloon made 24 appearances and scored 9 goals.[2]

Wolverhampton Wanderers

McAloon joined Division One high-flyers Wolverhampton Wanderers in a £5,000 deal in March 1938.[1] He made just two appearances (scoring one goal) before competitive football was suspended due to the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939.[4] McAloon departed Molineux in December 1945, after the cessation of hostilities.[1]

Wartime guest appearances

During the Second World War, McAloon guested for Hamilton Academical, Airdrieonians, Albion Rovers, Dumbarton, Dunfermline Athletic, Celtic and Morton.[5] He won the Lanarkshire Cup with Hamilton Academical in 1939, scoring in a 5–1 victory over future club Airdrieonians in the final.[5]

Return to Brentford

McAloon returned to Brentford in December 1945 and immediately returned to form, scoring six goals in seven appearances during the abridged 1945–46 season.[2] After four goals and seven appearances early in the 1946–47 season, McAloon departed Brentford once again. Across his two spells at Griffin Park, McAloon scored 19 goals in 38 appearances.[2]

Return to Celtic

McAloon rejoined Scottish League Division A side Celtic on 4 October 1946,[6] with George Paterson going the other way to Brentford.[1] Unable to relocate from London to Glasgow, McAloon failed to fully settle at the struggling club,[6] though he finished the 1946–47 season as top scorer,[1] netting 15 goals in 24 games.[7] He made just two appearances in the 1947–48 season,[7] before departing Parkhead in August 1948.[5] Across his two spells with the Bhoys, McAloon scored an memorable 32 goals in 55 games.[7]

Belfast Celtic

McAloon signed for high-flying Irish League side Belfast Celtic in August 1948.[5] Commuting to Northern Ireland from London was again problematical for McAloon and he failed to last with the club,[6] though he managed 10 goals during the 1948–49 season.[8]

Personal life

McAloon later worked as a janitor at Bridgeton School in Glasgow.[5]

Honours

Hamilton Academical

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Haynes, Graham; Coumbe, Frank (2006). Timeless Bees: Brentford F.C. Who's Who 1920-2006. Harefield: Yore Publications. pp. 102, 103. ISBN 978-0955294914.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Brentford Football Club History". Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Brentford Football Club History". Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  4. ^ "Doing The 92 ~ Gerry McAloon". Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  5. ^ a b c d e f "McALOON, Gerry (1939) - Hamilton Academical Memory Bank". Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  6. ^ a b c "McAloon, Gerald". Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  7. ^ a b c "Celtic Player Gerry McAloon Details". Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  8. ^ "Irish Football Club Project - Belfast Celtic Football Club - Season 1948/49". Archived from the original on 2015-10-31. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
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