Paddy Connolly

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Paddy Connolly
Personal information
Full name Patrick Connolly
Date of birth June 25, 1970 (1970-06-25) (age 37)
Place of birth    Glasgow, Scotland
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position Striker/Coach
Club information
Current club Brechin City
Youth clubs
Hamilton Thistle
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1986–96
1996–98
1998–04
1999
2000
2004–05
2005–06
2006–
Dundee United
Airdrie
St. Johnstone
Morton (loan)
Ayr United (loan)
Ayr United
Stirling Albion
Brechin City
112 (29)
064 (19)
109 (13)
005 0(5)
006 0(2)
034 0(7)
036 (12)
022 0(4)   

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

Patrick "Paddy" Connolly (born 25 June 1970 in Glasgow) is a Scottish footballer. He is currently player/coach for Brechin City, although he has not played a first-team match since April 2007.

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Connolly stared his career with Dundee United. He spent ten years at Tannadice, after which he joined Airdrie for a short time, before moving to St. Johnstone in 1998. Connolly spent six years with the Js, including short loan spells at Morton and Ayr United. Upon leaving McDiarmid Park in 2004, Connolly returned to Ayr, where he spent a season before playing the following season with Stirling Albion. Connolly joined current club Brechin in 2006.

Connolly was involved in one of Scottish football's more bizarre moments when he was denied a hat-trick during his time at Dundee United, when referee Les Mottram failed to notice his shot had come back from the inside stanchion in a February 1993 match against Partick Thistle.[1] Despite Partick defender Martin Clarke handing the ball back to goalkeeper Andy Murdoch to restart, Mottram missed the goal and handball to wave play on, with Connolly scoring twice in the match in a 4-0 win. Mottram went on to referee in the 1994 World Cup the following year.

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