Jim McCalliog

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Jim McCalliog
Personal information
Full name	James McCalliog
Date of birth	23 September 1946
Place of birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Height	5 ft 9 in
Position	Midfield
Youth clubs
1963-1963	Leeds
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1963–1965 1965–1969 1969–1974 1974–1975 1975–1977 1978–1979	Chelsea Sheffield Wednesday Wolverhampton Wanderers Manchester United Southampton Lincoln City	7 (2) 150 (19) 163 (34) 31 (7) 72 (8) 9 (0)
National team
1967-1971	Scotland	5 (1)
Teams managed
1990-1991	Halifax Town
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Jim McCalliog (born 23 September 1946 in Glasgow) is a former Scottish footballer who played for Sheffield Wednesday, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Manchester United and Southampton.

He played for Southampton in their victorious 1976 FA Cup Final against former employers Manchester United and made the pass that set up Bobby Stokes for the only goal.

He also won 5 caps for Scotland and famously scored the third goal in Scotland's 3-2 win over World Cup winners England at Wembley in 1967.

Contents 1 Early career 2 Chelsea 3 Sheffield Wednesday 4 Wolverhampton Wanderers 5 Manchester United 6 Southampton 7 Lincoln City 8 Halifax Town 9 Scotland 10 After Football 11 Honours Won 11.1 As a player 12 References

[edit] Early career

He was selected to play for Glasgow Schools, before signing as an amateur with Leeds United in May 1963.

[edit] Chelsea

In September 1963, he was signed by Chelsea and in his 2 years with the club he made 7 league appearances. His only goals for Chelsea came on 21 November 1964, when he scored twice at Birmingham City, in a 6-1 victory. (In this match, George Graham scored a hat-trick.)

His potential was soon spotted and in October 1965, he transferred to Sheffield Wednesday, for the then record fee for a teenager of £37,500.

[edit] Sheffield Wednesday

In his first season at Sheffield Wednesday, he helped them to the FA Cup final with a goal at Villa Park in the 2-0 victory in the semi-final over Chelsea.

He scored again in the final against Everton on May 14 1966, with the opening goal in the 4th minute as his team took a 2-0 lead. Unfortunately for his team, Everton then made one of the greatest come-backs in FA Cup final history, and thanks to two goals from Mike Trebilcock, Everton ran out 3-2 winners.

[edit] Wolverhampton Wanderers

In August 1969, Jim moved on to Wolverhampton Wanderers for £70,000 and soon matured into a quick-witted schemer for his new club.

In 1971-1972, Wolves reached the UEFA Cup 1971-72 UEFA Cup final. On the way to the final, McCalliog scored a vital away goal against Juventus. In the final, a two-legged match against Tottenham Hotspur, McCalliog scored Wolves’ only goal at home in the first leg, but Spurs ran out victors thanks to two goals from Martin Chivers. The second leg (on 17 May 1972) was a 1-1 draw, so Wolves finished as runners-up.

[edit] Manchester United

On transfer deadline day in March 1974, McCalliog was recruited by Tommy Docherty to add craft to the midfield at Manchester United, who were then struggling near the foot of the First Division. Although McCalliog soon made his mark with 3 goals in three wins, Norwich (2-0) Newcastle (1-0) and Everton (3-0), unfortunately United were relegated at the end of the season along with Southampton and Norwich City.

By February 1975, Docherty had started to build a promotion-winning team and McCalliog was discarded, moving on to Lawrie McMenemy’s Southampton for £40,000.

[edit] Southampton

Jim was an archetypal McMenemy signing, with both sides prospering from the move.

He made his Southampton debut on 15 February 1975 (away to Oldham) and appeared 14 times that season. The following season (1975-1976) he made 37 league appearances, scoring 7 goals, as Southampton laboured away in the Second Division.

During the 1975-1976 season, however, Southampton embarked on the road to Wembley and Jim will be fondly remembered by all Southampton supporters, not only for supplying the through ball for Bobby Stokes to hit the winner in the FA Cup Final on 1 May 1976 against Manchester United, but also for the vital goals he scored at Aston Villa and Bradford in the preceding rounds. To this day, many Bradford City fans claim that the winning goal in the quarter-final was illegal, as Peter Osgood flicked up the ball from a free kick for McCalliog to volley the ball into the goal. Likewise, many Manchester United supporters claim that Bobby Stokes was offside when McCalliog made the pass for the winning goal in the final.

The following season, McMenemy started 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.

In the summer of 1977, he left Southampton to ply his trade in the United States with Chicago Sting, before a brief spell as player-coach with Lyn Oslo in Norway.

[edit] Lincoln City

In September 1978, joined Lincoln as a player/coach. He soon fell out with manager Colin Murphy and his contract was paid up early in 1979. He briefly moved on to Runcorn as Player/manager, before quitting football, and taking over a pub in Lytham St. Anne’s.

[edit] Halifax Town

In 1990, Jim was combining the job of publican with that of community officer in North Yorkshire when Halifax Town (by now out of the Football League) parted company with manager Bill Ayre, and he was asked to step into the breach. He joined Halifax in March 1990, but his spell was not particularly successful and he left in October 1991.

[edit] Scotland

He made 4 appearances for Scotland in 1967 & 1968 (whilst with Wolverhampton Wanderers) and a further appearance (against Portugal) in April 1971 (when with Sheffield Wednesday).

On his Scottish debut, on 15 April 1967, he famously scored the third goal in Scotland's 3-2 win over World Cup winners England at Wembley.

[edit] After Football

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.

[edit] Honours Won

[edit] As a player

With Sheffield Wednesday

• 1966 – FA Cup runner up

With Wolverhampton Wanderers

• 1972 – UEFA Cup runner up

With Southampton F.C.

• FA Cup winner 1976

[edit] References

• Duncan Holley & Gary Chalk (2003). In That Number - A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC. Hagiology. ISBN 0-9534474-3-X.

• Tim Manns (2006). Tie a Yellow Ribbon: How the Saints Won the Cup. Hagiology. ISBN 0-9534474-6-4.