Dave Mackay (footballer born 1934)

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Dave Mackay
Dave Mackay
Personal information
Full name David Craig Mackay
Date of birth 14 November 1934 (1934-11-14) (age 73)
Place of birth    Edinburgh, Scotland
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
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 0(5)
026 0(1)   
National team
1957–1965 Scotland 022 0(4)
Teams managed
1971–1972
1972–1973
1973–1976
1977–1978
1978–1987
1987–1989
1989–1991
1992–1994		 Swindon Town
Nottingham Forest
Derby County
Walsall
Kuwait
Doncaster Rovers
Birmingham City
Zamalek

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

David Craig Mackay (born 14 November 1934) is a former Scottish footballer and football manager. He represented Scotland at schoolboy level, won four caps at under-23 level and 22 full caps. He also played three times for the Scottish Football League representative side. He tied with Tony Book of Manchester City for the Football Writers' Association's Footballer of the Year award in 1969.

Mackay was born in Edinburgh, and began his playing career with the club he supported as a boy, Heart of Midlothian. He won all three Scottish Domestic honours with the club. He captained the side in 1957-58 when they broke the senior British league goal scoring record with 132 goals for with only 29 against. He was signed by Tottenham Hotspur for £32,000 in March 1959. In 2003, football managerial legend Brian Clough described him as Tottenham Hotspur's greatest ever player. During the 1960s his fierce determination and skill contributed to the team which won the Double in 1961, further FA Cup victories in 1962 and 1967, and the Cup Winners Cup in 1963. In 1968 he was transferred to Derby County for £5,000, after Clough persuaded him to sign. In his first season at the Baseball Ground, in which the club gained promotion to the First Division, he was chosen FWA Footballer of the Year, jointly with Manchester City's Tony Book.

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 following Clough's resignation. In his first season Derby finished third in the table.

In his second season in charge of Derby, he guided the team to the 1975 league title. The following season, he managed the club to a respectable fourth-place finish in the league, the semifinals of the FA Cup, and an unfortunate extra time second-round exit to Real Madrid in the 1976 European Cup. At one stage the side had been in the running for the Double. Mackay was sacked in November 1976 after a poor start to the season. A newspaper headline reading "Mackay sacked" was used as a visual prop in the British television situation comedy Porridge, which featured a prison officer named Mackay.

He then had an uneventful year-long spell as Walsall manager from March 1977 to August 1978. He then spent nine years coaching in Kuwait. He returned to the 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 resigned in 1991. He then returned to the Middle East for two years managing Zamalek, a Cairo club team, and then a further three years in Qatar before retiring from football altogether in 1997.

In 2004 The Real Mackay was published, an autobiography written with Martin Knight. Mackay had previously published Soccer My Spur in the early 1960s.

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, and in 2006 became an inaugural inductee of the Heart of Midlothian Hall of Fame in recognition of his success as a player in the 1950s.

[edit] Honours

Heart of Midlothian

Tottenham Hotspur

Derby County

As manager

Derby County

El Zamalek

[edit] References

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Nottingham Forest F.C. – Managers

Radford (1889–97) • Haslam (1897–1909) • Earp (1909–12) • Masters (1912–25) • Baynes (1925–29) • Hardy (1930–31) • Watson (1931–36) • Wightman (1936–39) • Walker (1939–60) • Beattie (1960–63) • Carey (1963–68) • Gillies (1969–72) • Mackay (1972–73) • Brown (1973–75) • Clough (1975–93) • Clark (1993–96) • Pearce (1996–97) • Bassett (1997–99) • Adams (1999) • Atkinson (1999) • Platt (1999–2001) • Hart (2001–04) • Kinnear (2004) • Harford (2004–05) • Megson (2005–06) • Barlow & McParland (2006) • Calderwood (2006–)
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Walsall F.C. – Managers

Smallwood (1888–91) • Burton (1891–93) • Robinson (1893–95) • Ailso (1895–96) • Parsloe (1896–97) • Ford (1897–98) • Hughes (1898–99) • Ford (1899–1901) • Shutt (1908–13) • Price (1914–20) • Burchell (1921–26) • Ashworth (1926–27) • Torrance (1927–28) • Kerr (1928–29) • Scholey (1929–30) • O'Rourke (1930–32) • Slade (1932–34) • Wilson (1934–37) • Lowes (1937–44) • Hibbs (1944–51) • McPhee (1951) • Fletcher (1952–53) • Buckley (1953–55) • Love (1955–57) • Moore (1957–64) • Wood (1964) • Shaw (1964–68) • Graham (1968) • Lewin (1968–69) • Moore (1969–72) • Smith (1972–73) • Allen (1973) • Fraser (1974–77) • Mackay (1977–78) • Ashman (1978) • Sibley (1979) • Buckley (1979–82) • Martin (1981–82) • Buckley (1982–86) • Coakley (1986–88) • Barnwell (1989–90) • Hibbitt (1990–94) • Nicholl (1994–97) • Sørensen (1997–98) • Graydon (1998–2002) • Lee (2002–04) • Merson (2004–06) • Halsall (2006) • Broadhurst (2006) • Kinsella (2006) • Money (2006–2008)
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Derby County F.C. – Managers

Newbould (1896–1906) • Methven (1906–22) • Potter (1922–25) • Jobey (1925–41) • Magner (1944–46) • McMillan (1946–53) • Barker (1953–55) • Storer, Jr. (1955–62) • Ward (1962–67) • Clough (1967–73) • Mackay (1973–76) • Murphy (1976–77) • Docherty (1977–79) • Addison (1979–82) • Newman (1982) • Taylor (1982–84) • McFarland (1984) • Cox (1984–93) • McFarland (1993–95) • McEwan (1995) • Smith (1995–2001) • Todd (2001–02) • McEwan (2002) • Gregory (2002–03) • Lillis (2003) • Burley (2003–05) • Brown (2005–06) • Westley (2006) • Davies (2006–07) • Jewell (2007–)
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Doncaster Rovers F.C. – Managers

Porter (1920–21) • Tufnell (1921–22) • Porter (1922–23) • Ray (1923–27) • Menzies (1928–36) • Emery (1936–40) • Marsden (1944–46) • Bestall (1946–49) • Doherty (1949–58) • Bycroft (1958) • Hodgson (1958) • Crayston (1958–59) • Bestall (1959–60) • Curtis (1960–61) • Malloy (1961–62) • Hold (1962–64) • Leivers (1964–66) • Kettleborough (1966–67) • Raynor (1967–68) • McMenemy (1968–71) • Setters (1971–74) • Anderson (1975–78) • Bremner (1978–85) • Cusack (1985–87) • Mackay (1987–89) • Bremner (1989–91) • Beaglehole (1991–93) • I. Atkins (1993–94) • Chung (1994–96) • Dixon (1996–97) • Weaver (1997) • Cowling (1997) • Bergara (1997) • Weaver (1997–98) • Snodin (1998–00) • M. Atkins (2000) • Penney (2000) • Wignall (2000–01) • Penney (2001–06) • Walker (2006) • O'Driscoll (2006–)
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Birmingham City F.C. – Managers

Jones (1892–1908) • Watson (1908–10) • McRoberts (1910–15) • Richards (1915–23) • Beer (1923–27) • Harvey (1927–28) • Knighton (1928–33) • Liddell (1933–39) • Camkin (1939–44) • Goodier (1944–45) • Storer (1945–49) • Brocklebank (1949–54) • Turner (1954–58) • Turner and Beasley (1958) • Beasley (1958–60) • Merrick (1960–64) • Mallett (1964–65) • Cullis (1965–70) • Goodwin (1970–75) • Bell (1975–77) • Ramsey (1977–78) • Smith (1978–82) • Saunders (1982–86) • Bond (1986–87) • Pendrey (1987–89) • Mackay (1989–91) • Macari (1991) • Cooper (1991–93) • Fry (1993–96) • Francis (1996–2001) • Bruce (2001–07) • McLeish (2007–)
Persondata
NAME Mackay, Dave
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mackay, David Craig
SHORT DESCRIPTION Professional footballer, football manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1934-11-14
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh, Scotland
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH