Peter Weatherson
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| Peter Weatherson | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Peter Joseph Weatherson | |
| Date of birth | 29 May 1980 | |
| Place of birth | North Shields, England | |
| Height | 6.2 | |
| Playing position | Defender, Forward | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Greenock Morton F.C. | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
2000-2003 2003- |
Newcastle Blue Star Queen of the South Greenock Morton |
154 (58) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Peter Weatherson (born 29 May 1980, in North Shields) is an English footballer. He is currently playing for Greenock Morton in the Scottish First Division.
Weatherson began his career with local non-league club Newcastle Blue Star. In 2000 Queen of the South brought Weatherson into Scottish Lower league football where he mainly featured as an attacking midfielder. In season 2001/02 Weatherson scored 15 league goals in 33 appearances (4 as a substitute) as Queen of the South won the Scottish Second Division league championship.
Greenock Morton paid £30,000 to attain Weatherson's services from Queens at the start of season 2003/04. He scored 14 league goals in 31 appearances that season but the campaign ended in disaster when Morton finished in 4th position after leading the division by a significant margin. Allegations of betting irregularities (which turned out to be false) were made against some of the players in the squad including Weatherson.
He overcame this setback and has recently remodelled himself as a defender after manager Jim McInally used him as a utility centreback in a Tennents Scottish Cup tie away to Cove Rangers. Weatherson played as a converted right back for Morton in season 2006/07; from where he still contributed his fair share of goals, but as of 6 October 2007, when he scored a hat trick against Partick Thistle while playing as a striker, Jim McInally has ensured us all that Peter will continue to play in a striker's role. Weatherson has been working hard to become fitter in the hope of making that role up front his own.
Weatherson combines playing duties with the coaching one of Morton's youth teams.
On 10th March 2007 Peter Weatherson scored his 100th career goal v Alloa Athletic at Recreation Park, Alloa. Weatherson recently became the club's top scorer for season 2006/2007, when he scored 4 goals during a 9-1 home victory against Forfar Athletic, bringing his seasons tally to 17 goals which 15 of them he was playing in defence and 2 from midfeild
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