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Jim McCalliog

James McCalliog (born 23 September 1946) is a Scottish former football player and coach. He played in the Football League for Chelsea, Sheffield Wednesday, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Manchester United, Southampton and Lincoln City, as well as in the United States with Chicago Sting and in Norway with Lyn.

Jim McCalliog
Personal information
Full name James McCalliog[1]
Date of birth (1946-09-23) 23 September 1946 (age 78)
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1963 Leeds United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1963–1965 Chelsea 7 (2)
1965–1969 Sheffield Wednesday 150 (19)
1969–1974 Wolverhampton Wanderers 163 (34)
1974–1975 Manchester United 31 (7)
1975–1977 Southampton 72 (8)
1977 Chicago Sting 19 (0)
1978 SFK Lyn 2 (0)
1978–1979 Lincoln City 9 (0)
1979 Runcorn
Total 453 (70)
International career
1966–1967 Scotland U23 2 (3)
1967–1971 Scotland 10 (1)
Managerial career
1979 Runcorn (player-manager)
1990–1991 Halifax Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

He appeared for Sheffield Wednesday in the 1966 FA Cup Final, scoring one of the goals for the Owls in a 3–2 defeat by Everton. Ten years later, he played for Southampton in their 1976 FA Cup Final win against his former club Manchester United; McCalliog provided the assist for Bobby Stokes to score the only goal.

McCalliog also won ten caps for Scotland between 1967 and 1971. He scored the third goal in Scotland's 3–2 win against England at Wembley in 1967.

Club career

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McCalliog was selected to play for Glasgow Schools, before signing as an amateur with Leeds United in May 1963.[3][4] However, he remained on the books of the West Yorkshire club for just four months before joining Chelsea in September 1963.[4]

He made his senior debut on his 18th birthday in a 3–0 League Cup win at Birmingham City, but managed just seven league appearances over a two-year stay. His only goals for Chelsea came on 21 November 1964, when he scored twice at Birmingham in a 6–1 victory. However, his potential was noted and, in October 1965, he transferred to Sheffield Wednesday for a then-record fee for a teenager of £37,500.[3]

His first season at Hillsborough saw him help the club to the FA Cup Final with a goal in their 2–0 semi-final victory over Chelsea at Villa Park.[5] He scored again in the final against Everton, with the opening goal in the fourth minute as his team took a 2–0 lead.[6] However, Everton mounted one of the greatest comebacks in FA Cup final history, and eventually ran out 3–2 winners.[6][7]

After almost four seasons and 174 appearances for the Owls, McCalliog moved on to fellow top-flight side Wolverhampton Wanderers for £70,000, where he was virtual ever-present over the next three seasons.[8] He played in the club's run to the 1972 UEFA Cup Final, scoring a vital away goal against Juventus en route.[9] In the final, a two-legged match against Tottenham Hotspur, he scored Wolves' only goal in a 2–1 first leg defeat at home, he also captained the team in both legs, in the absence of Mike Bailey.[10][11] The second leg ended a 1–1 draw, leaving McCalliog with a runners-up medal.[10][11]

The 1973–74 season saw his appearances hampered by injuries and he did not win his place back for Wolves' League Cup win over Manchester City; Alan Sunderland taking his spot. Days later, on deadline day in March 1974, he left Wolves to join Manchester United for £60,000.[8]

United were then struggling near the foot of the First Division, and although McCalliog soon made his mark with three goals in three wins, the club were relegated at the end of the season.[12][13] He played enough games in the following season to win a Second Division championship medal but had been sold by manager Tommy Docherty before the season's end to Southampton for £40,000.[2]

He made his Southampton debut away to Oldham on 15 February 1975[14] and appeared 14 times that season.[15] The following season (1975–76) he made 37 league appearances, scoring 7 goals, as Southampton laboured away in the Second Division.[16]

Their league campaign was overshadowed though by a run to that year's FA Cup Final, during which McCalliog scored at Aston Villa and Bradford in the early rounds.[17] He gained the first winners' medal of his career as he supplied the through-ball for Bobby Stokes to hit the winner against favourites Manchester United.[18]

The following season saw manager Lawrie McMenemy start to dismantle the cup-winning team and McCalliog was released at the end of the season, having lost his place in the first team to Alan Ball in January.[19] He moved to the United States to ply his trade with the Chicago Sting, before a brief spell as player-coach with SFK Lyn in Norway.[2]

He returned to Britain in September 1978, as a player-coach at Lincoln City[2] but soon fell out with manager Colin Murphy and his contract was paid up early in 1979.[20] He briefly moved on to non-league Runcorn as player/manager,[2] before quitting football, and taking over a pub in Lytham St. Anne's in 1979.[21]

In March 1990, he was combining the job of publican with that of community officer in North Yorkshire when Halifax Town parted company with manager Billy Ayre, and he was asked to step into the breach.[citation needed] However, his spell with Halifax was not successful, as they hovered around the foot of the Football League, and he resigned in October 1991 to be succeeded by John McGrath.[22] McCalliog has not held a senior position in football since.[23]

International career

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McCalliog represented Scotland at schoolboy, youth and under-23 levels.[24] On his Scotland debut he scored the third goal in Scotland's 3–2 win over 1966 FIFA World Cup winners England at Wembley.[25] Speaking in 2014, Scotland manager Bobby Brown said that McCalliog had been the "crux" of the team.[26] McCalliog played in five games during a 1967 overseas tour that the Scottish Football Association decided in October 2021 to reclassify as full internationals, which increased his cap tally from five to ten.[27]

Life after football

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After leaving Halifax, he settled with his second wife in Yorkshire where they ran the George & Dragon pub at Wetherby. After another divorce at the end of 2005, he was running a pub in Leeds.[21] He later took over a pub in Fenwick, Ayrshire, close to his native Glasgow but left this establishment around 2010 and now runs a bed and breakfast in Fenwick, Ayrshire with his present wife Debbie.[28][29]

Honours

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Sheffield Wednesday

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Southampton

References

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  1. ^ "Jim McCalliog". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e Holley & Chalk 2003, p. 546.
  3. ^ a b Chalk, Gary; Holley, Duncan; Bull, David (2013). All the Saints: A Complete Players' Who's Who of Southampton FC. Hagiology Publishing. p. 386. ISBN 978-0-9926864-0-6.
  4. ^ a b Errington, Robert (4 April 2021). "Young Lorimer and McCalliog". Essex Senior Football League. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  5. ^ Miller, Alex (12 September 2021). "Finals, Don Megson and an unusual lap of honour: The Sheffield Wednesday memories of Jim McCalliog". Sheffield Star. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  6. ^ a b Murray, Scott (13 May 2011). "The Joy of Six: FA Cup final goals". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  7. ^ "FA Cup Final 1966". Everton FC. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  8. ^ a b Macpherson, Graeme (13 August 2013). "In a career which is filled with highlights, there is one Jim McCalliog will happily replay". The Herald. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  9. ^ "Old Gold: Wolves slay European giants Juventus". Wolverhampton Wanderers FC. 22 March 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  10. ^ a b Edwards, Richard (29 May 2019). "How an all-English European final stretched all the way from London to… Wolverhampton". FourFourTwo. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  11. ^ a b "On this day: Wolves lose the first UEFA Cup final". Express and Star. 17 May 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  12. ^ Smith, Peter (29 April 2020). "Riots and burning banners as Manchester United relegated while Stoke City qualify for Europe". Stoke-on-Trent Live. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  13. ^ "The two sides of the Law". ESPN. 19 September 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  14. ^ Holley & Chalk 2003, p. 127.
  15. ^ Holley & Chalk 2003, p. 129.
  16. ^ Holley & Chalk 2003, p. 133.
  17. ^ Leach, Tom (1 May 2021). "45 years on: The inside story of Southampton's 1976 FA Cup win and Lawrie McMenemy's genius call". Hampshire Live. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  18. ^ Holley & Chalk 2003, pp. 355–363.
  19. ^ Holley & Chalk 2003, p. 138.
  20. ^ Manns 2006, pp. 134–135.
  21. ^ a b Manns 2006, p. 135.
  22. ^ "FC Halifax Town: The great goal drought of 1990". Halifax Courier. 14 October 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  23. ^ "Southampton legend Jim McCalliog 50 years on from his famous goal for Scotland against England". Southern Daily Echo. 14 April 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  24. ^ Scotland U23 player McCalliog, Jim, FitbaStats
  25. ^ "England 2 Scotland 3". London Hearts Supporters' Club. 15 April 1967. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  26. ^ Wilson, Richard (29 June 2014). "Brown was first of a kind for Scotland's national team". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  27. ^ "Former Scotland players to be recognised with international caps including Sir Alex Ferguson". scottishfa.co.uk. Scottish Football Association. 9 October 2021. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  28. ^ Evans, Gregg (3 August 2013). "Jim McCalliog: "I didn't speak to Bill McGarry for three months."". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 31 March 2014. What are you up to nowadays? We've got a B&B in Fenwick.
  29. ^ "Langside Bed and Breakfast". Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  30. ^ a b Vernon, Leslie; Rollin, Jack (1977). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1977–78. London: Brickfield Publications Ltd. p. 491. ISBN 0354 09018 6.

Bibliography

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  • Holley, Duncan; Chalk, Gary (2003). In That Number – A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC. Hagiology Publishing. ISBN 0-9534474-3-X.
  • Manns, Tim (2006). Tie a Yellow Ribbon: How the Saints Won the Cup. Hagiology Publishing. ISBN 0-9534474-6-4.
  • McCalliog, Jim (2021). Wembley Wins, Wembley Woes. Langside Publishing. ISBN 978-1-3999-0144-4.
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