Adam Blacklaw

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

Adam Blacklaw
Personal information
Full name Adam Smith Blacklaw
Date of birth (1937-09-02)2 September 1937
Place of birth Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Date of death 28 February 2010(2010-02-28) (aged 72)
Place of death Barnoldswick, Lancashire, 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)
National team
1959–1960 Scotland under-23[2] 2 (0)
1963–1965 Scotland 3 (0)
Teams managed
Clitheroe
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

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
Burnley

References
  1. 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. 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. 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.
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