Brian Potter (footballer)

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Brian Potter
Personal information
Full name Brian Potter
Date of birth (1977-01-26) 26 January 1977 (age 48)
Place of birth Dunfermline, Scotland
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Livingston (goalkeeping coach)
Youth career
Raith Rovers
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1994–1995 Raith Rovers 1 (0)
Oakley United
2008–2011 Hamilton Academical 1 (0)
Total2(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Brian Potter (born 26 January 1977) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently employed as the goalkeeping coach at Livingston. Potter is from Valleyfield in Fife. [1]

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Career

Potter began his career with Raith Rovers, and was the substitute goalkeeper when Scott Thomson was sent off in the 1994–95 Scottish League Cup semi-final. Despite being a YTS player with only one previous first team appearance, Potter played the remainder of the match, conceding once but surviving to a penalty shoot-out. On the final penalty, Alan Lawrence – who had put Raith out of the Scottish League Challenge Cup earlier in the season in a penalty shoot-out – saw his penalty saved by Potter, putting Raith into the final. [2] First choice Thomson was recalled, coincidentally saving the first sudden death penalty to win the final, allowing Potter to pick up a winners' medal as a substitute. Incredibly, Potter should not have been present at either match – Ray Allan, Raith's backup goalkeeper, was ineligible after being an unused substitute earlier in the competition for Motherwell. [3]

Potter failed to make any further first team appearances for Rovers and joined East Fife as a goalkeeping coach.

After a playing spell in junior football with Oakley United, Potter joined Hamilton Academical as a goalkeeping coach. [4]

Potter was signed as a player by Hamilton in March 2008 to offer cover to their two existing goalkeepers. He had been listed as a trialist substitute on a number of occasions earlier in the season. He made his Hamilton debut, as a substitute, against Dundee in April 2008. [5]

On 12 October 2011 he left Hamilton Academical to sign on as a goalkeeping coach at SPL Dunfermline Athletic. [6]

He was appointed goalkeeping coach at Livingston in June 2024. [7]

Honours

Raith Rovers

References

  1. ↑ "New Goalie Coach | Dunfermline Athletic Football Club".
  2. ↑ Brian Potter: A life in professional football – http://www.twohundredpercent.net/?p=2663
  3. ↑ "Raymond Allan – Player 1972 – 75 and 1979–89". Cowdenbeath.net. Retrieved 8 March 2008.
  4. ↑ "Accies Squad 2007-8". Hamilton Academical FC. 8 March 2008. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008.
  5. ↑ "Dundee 1 Accies 1". Hamilton Accies FC. 26 April 2008.[ permanent dead link ]
  6. ↑ "Raith Rovers hero joins Dunfermline". Scottish Football League. 12 October 2011. Archived from the original on 2 February 2013.
  7. ↑ "Brian Potter joins the coaching staff". Livingston FC. 13 June 2024.
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