Jim Mallan

James Mallan (25 January 1924 – 27 May 1969) was a Scottish footballer who played for Celtic and St Mirren as a defender.

For the Morton player, see Jimmy Mallon.

Jim Mallan
Personal information
Full name James Mallan
Date of birth (1924-01-25)25 January 1924[1]
Place of birth Govanhill, Scotland
Date of death 27 May 1969(1969-05-27) (aged 45)
Position(s) Right back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Pollok
1942–1953 Celtic 90 (0)
1953–1956 St Mirren 65 (0)
Total 155 (0)
National team
1949 Scottish League XI 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Having joined Celtic as a teenager, his time at the club coincided with one of the poorest eras in their history in terms of performances and trophies. He did win the Glasgow Cup in 1948–49, and had also featured regularly for four seasons during World War II which are not counted as official matches.[2] At the end of that period he was sent off in a controversial 1946 Victory Cup match against Rangers which led to a lengthy suspension from the Scottish Football Association,[3] so he was not able to make his Scottish Football League debut until December 1946.[2]

He was selected for the Scottish League XI once, in 1949,[4] but was criticised for his performance in a 3–0 defeat to the Football League XI, which he felt was unjust.[3]

At St Mirren, he was responsible for scoring an own goal in the 1955 Scottish League Cup Final against Aberdeen, who went on to win the match 2–1.[5] He retired from playing at the end of the season, and later ran a public house in Paisley. He died in 1969, aged 45.

Personal life

Jimmy was the first of four generations of Mallan men to play football to a high level. His son, also Jimmy, played Junior football as a striker, scoring a hat-trick for Johnstone Burgh in the 1964 Scottish Junior Cup final.[6][7] His grandson Stevie, a striker born in 1967, played for several Scottish Football League clubs in the 1990s, and after moving to Junior football in his mid-30s, played for several more years and appeared in the 2011 Scottish Junior Cup Final at the age of 44.[8] His great-grandson, also Stevie, born in 1996, made his debut as a midfielder for St Mirren in November 2014[9] and played 100 games for the club before moving to England, later signing for Hibernian.

References
  1. Statutory registers - Births - Search results, ScotlandsPeople
  2. "[Celtic player] Mallan, Jim". FitbaStats. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  3. Tales of Jimmy Mallan, Charles Buchan’s Football Weekly, September 1955, via Not The View, January 2019
  4. "[SFL player] Jimmy Mallan". London Hearts Supoporters Club. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  5. Lifelong St. Mirren fan undertook epic journey to see League Cup Final win for Hearts, Scottish Professional Football League, 15 March 2013
  6. "On The Record". Daily Record. 20 October 2008. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  7. Purdie, Tom (2011). The Scottish Junior Cup 1946-1975. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 9781445604176.
  8. "Auchinleck Talbot 2-1 Musselburgh Athletic". BBC Sport. 29 May 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  9. Mullen, Scott (24 November 2014). "Buddies boss can still beat the boos". Evening Times. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  • Jim Mallan at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database
  • Jimmy Mallan, The Celtic Wiki


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