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Post by stewmelrover on May 14, 2020 12:24:37 GMT
I have a photo of Jimmy Conlin in my grandmother's 'Coatbridge and the Great War' book. Sounds like he was a bit of a lad.
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Post by Rovergrant on May 14, 2020 14:52:42 GMT
Thanks for flagging his up, I have that book, need to have a look....hmm ` a bit of a lad`...aren`t most footballers ?
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Post by rab on May 14, 2020 16:02:57 GMT
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Post by rab on May 14, 2020 20:40:02 GMT
An outlier should be Willie Currie, played for amateur Scotland, also played for Great Britain in the Olympics, the only Scot, some of this might have been while playing for Rovers. Currie did get Scotland amateur caps whilst with Rovers and played once (I think) for the Great Britain Olympic team, but not actually in the Olympics. He played the first leg of an an Olympic Qualifier for GB at Wembley against Bulgaria in 1971, with the rest of the team coming entirely from non-league clubs in England. This was against a Bulgaria team which less than a year earlier had played at the Mexico World Cup (as Eastern European Communist countries claimed that all their players were amateurs). Amazingly, Currie helped the team keep a clean sheet and GB won 1-0. www.11v11.com/matches/great-britain-v-bulgaria-24-march-1971-231277/It couldn't last - Bulgaria won the 2nd leg 5-0 (in which Currie did not play). That was the last ever match for the amateur GB football team.
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