Colin Methven
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| Colin Methven | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Colin John Methven | |
| Date of birth | December 10, 1955 | |
| Place of birth | India | |
| Playing position | Defender (retired) | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| -1974 | Leven Royals | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1974-1979 1979-1986 1986-1990 1990-1991 1990-1993 1993-1994 |
East Fife Wigan Athletic Blackpool → Carlisle United (loan) Walsall Barrow Career |
154 (15) 296 (21) 175 (11) 12 (0) 97 (3) 7 (0) 741 (50) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Colin John Methven (born December 10, 1955) is an Indian-born Scottish former professional footballer.
A centre-half, Methven began his career with East Fife in 1974. He went on to make 154 league appearances and score fifteen goals in five years, before joining Wigan Athletic in September 1979.
Methven remained at Springfield Park for seven years, making close to 300 appearances for the club and scoring 21 goals. He was the club's captain when Blackpool came in for his services in 1986 for £20,000.
He made his debut for the Seasiders on the opening day of the 1986-87 season in a goalless draw with Chesterfield at Bloomfield Road and became a virtual ever-present for the next four years.
Methven was a "footballing" centre-half who enjoyed going up for attacking corners, as evidenced by his 50 career league goals, and he was voted Player of the Year for two consecutive years by Blackpool's fans, who were angry when he was sold to Walsall in November 1990 after an earlier loan spell at Carlisle. In his early days of his short spell as Blackpool manager, Graham Carr declared that Methven was "neither fast enough nor good enough for Fourth Division football".[1]
In the final game of the 1990-91 season, on May 11, 1991, Methven helped Walsall to a 2-0 win at Blackpool, denying the hosts automatic promotion to Division Three.
In 1998, Wigan Athletic fans voted Methven as the club's Best Football League Player of All-Time.[2]
Methven finished his career with Barrow in 1994.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Calley, Roy: Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887-1992, Breedon Books Sport, 1992. ISBN 1-873626-07-X
- ^ Latics Legends: Colin Methven
[edit] References
- Neil Brown's statistics site
- Calley, Roy: Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887-1992, Breedon Books Sport, 1992. ISBN 1-873626-07-X
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