Dave Mackay

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Dave Mackay
Personal information
Full name	David Craig Mackay
Date of birth	November 14, 1934 (age 72)
Place of birth	Edinburgh, Scotland
Height	1.72 m (5ft 8in)
Playing position	Left-half; later, Sweeper
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1953–1959 1959–1968 1968–1971 1971–1972	Heart of Midlothian Tottenham Hotspur Derby County Swindon Town	135 (25) 318 (51) 122 (5) 26 (1)
National team
1957–1965	Scotland	22 (0)
Teams managed
1971-1972 1972-1973 1973-1976 1977-1978 1978-1987 1987-1989 1989-1991	Swindon Town Nottingham Forest Derby County Walsall Kuwait Doncaster Rovers Birmingham City
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

David Craig Mackay is a former Scottish footballer and football manager who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 14 November 1934. A Scottish schoolboy, under-23 (4 caps) and full international (22 caps). He also represented the Scottish Football League. He tied with Tony Book of Manchester City for the Football Writers' Association's Footballer of the Year Award in 1969.

Mackay began his playing career with Heart of Midlothian and after a successful spell was signed by Tottenham Hotspur for £32,000. During the 1960's his fierce determination and skill contributed to the team which won the "double" in 1961, FA Cup victories in 1962 and 1967, and Cup Winners Cup winning team of 1963. In 1968 he was transferred to Derby County for £5,000 and was jointly (with Tony Book) credited the Player of the Year award in his first season at the Baseball Ground after gaining promotion to the First Division. In 1971 he was appointed player-manager of Swindon Town but left after just one season to take charge of Nottingham Forest. He remained at the City Ground until October 1973, when he returned to Derby as manager.

In his second season in charge of Derby, he guided the team to the league title. The following season, he managed the club to a respectable 4th place finish and an unfortunate extra time second round exit to Real Madrid in European Cup. But he was sacked in November 1976 after a poor start to the season, with the headline "Mackay sacked" used as a visual prop in Porridge. He then had an uneventful year-long spell as Walsall manager the year. He then spent many years over the next decade coaching in Kuwait. He returned to UK and was appointed manager of Doncaster Rovers in 1987. Mackay's reign at Belle Vue lasted two seasons before he moved to Birmingham City, who had just been relegated to the third tier of the league for the first time in their history. His task was simple - to get Birmingham promoted to the Second Division. But he was unsuccessful in trying to achieve this and retired from football in 1991.

Mackay was made an Inaugural Inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 in recognition of his impact on the English game as both a player and manager.

[edit] References

• Dave Mackay and Martin Knight (2004). The real Mackay : the Dave Mackay story. ISBN 1-84018-840-5. 
• Dave Mackay Profile

	Scotland squad - 1958 FIFA World Cup
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