Graham Leggat

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Graham Leggat
Personal information
Date of birth June 23, 1934 (1934-06-23) (age 73)
Place of birth    Aberdeen, Scotland
Playing position Right winger
Youth clubs
Banks o'Dee
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1953–1958
1958–1966
1966–1967
1968
1970
1971-1972
Aberdeen
Fulham
Birmingham City
Rotherham United
Bromsgrove Rovers
Toronto Metros
109 0(64)
254 (127)   
National team
1956–1960 Scotland 18 (8)

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

Graham Leggat (born June 23, 1934) is a former Scottish international football player.

Born in Aberdeen, Leggat started his career at Aberdeen as a right winger. He was part of the Aberdeen team that won the Scottish league title in 1954-55 and the 1955-56 Scottish League Cup. He was transferred to Fulham in 1958 for £16,000, where he formed a right flank partnership with England captain Johnny Haynes. He wound down his career with short spells at Birmingham, Rotherham and Bromsgrove Rovers and was also briefly a coach at Aston Villa.

Graham is the scorer of the fastest ever English league hat-trick. He scored this on 26th December 1963 for Fulham in three minutes against Ipswich Town in a 10-1 win, a club record.

Leggat was selected in the Scotland squad for the 1958 FIFA World Cup in Sweden, playing in the Scots' matches against Yugoslavia and Paraguay. In total he earned 18 full caps between 1956 and 1960.

In 1971 Leggatt emigrated to Canada, where he began a second career as an analyst on soccer telecasts for the CBC at the 1976 Summer Olympics and at the World Cup. He later became host of TSN's popular Soccer Saturday program as well as an on-air analyst on its soccer telecasts. He was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame in 2001 as a 'builder'.

[edit] International goals

Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first.
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 April 14, 1956 Hampden Park, Glasgow Flag of England England 1-0 1-1 BHC
2 October 5, 1957 Windsor Park, Belfast Flag of Northern Ireland Northern Ireland 1-1 1-1 BHC
3 October 18, 1958 Ninian Park, Cardiff Flag of Wales Wales 1-0 3-0 BHC
4 May 6, 1959 Hampden Park, Glasgow Flag of West Germany West Germany 3-1 3-2 Friendly
5 May 27, 1959 Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam Flag of the Netherlands Netherlands 2-1 2-1 Friendly
6 October 3, 1959 Windsor Park, Belfast Flag of Northern Ireland Northern Ireland 1-0 4-0 BHC
7 November 4, 1959 Hampden Park, Glasgow Flag of Wales Wales 1-1 1-1 BHC
8 April 19, 1960 Hampden Park, Glasgow Flag of England England 1-0 1-1 BHC

[edit] Bibliography

Reid, Harry (2005). The Final Whistle?. Birlinn. 1-84158-362-6. 

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