Dick Malone

Dick Malone

Personal information
Full name	Richard Philip Malone [1]
Date of birth	(1947-08-22) 22 August 1947 (age 76)
Place of birth	Carfin, Scotland
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) [2]
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
	Shotts Bon Accord
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1964–1970	Ayr United	163	(20)
1970–1977	Sunderland	236	(2)
1977–1978	Hartlepool United	36	(2)
1978–1980	Blackpool	49	(1)
1980–1982	Queen of the South	43	(0)
Total		536	(26)
International career
1969	Scotland U23	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Richard Philip Malone (born 22 August 1947) is a Scottish former professional footballer. A defender, he appeared for Sunderland in the 1973 FA Cup Final winning team.

After playing for junior side Shotts Bon Accord, Malone started his senior career with Ayr United, for whom he had played 163 league matches and scored twenty goals. He was the only full back at that time to score a hat trick.

Malone joined Sunderland in October 1970 and was a Scotland under-23 international (match against France). ^[3]

In the FA Cup Final victory, Second Division Sunderland beat Leeds United 1-0. Malone played 235 (+1) league matches for Sunderland, scoring two goals.^{[ citation needed ]}

Malone left Sunderland to join Hartlepool United in July 1977.^{[ citation needed ]} After playing 36 league matches and scoring two goals for the club, he was transferred to Blackpool in November 1978, playing 49 matches for them scoring one goal.^{[ citation needed ]} The goal came in a 5–2 victory over Swindon Town at Bloomfield Road on 15 May 1979. His contract with Blackpool was cancelled in May 1980 by Alan Ball.^{[ citation needed ]}

In season 1980–81, Malone returned to Scotland to play for Queen of the South. With the Dumfries club, Malone won promotion from the Scottish Second Division. ^[4] Alongside Malone at Queen of the South was a player with a name that would have sounded familiar to Malone, Queens' long serving goalkeeper Allan Ball. ^[5] QoS left winger Jimmy Robertson later said when asked who the best players were that he played beside at Queens, 'Dick Malone, you could tell he had played at a higher level than most of us'. ^[6]

After leaving Queens he returned to non league football by joining Gateshead.

Honours

Sunderland

• FA Cup: 1972–73 ^[7]

Queen of the South

• Scottish Second Division promotion: 1980–81

References

1. "Dick Malone". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
2. Rollin, Jack, ed. (1980). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1980–81 . London: Queen Anne Press. p.  70. ISBN   0362020175.
3. "Dick Malone". www.fitbastats.com. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
4. "Queen of the South official club history". Archived from the original on 13 September 2009. Retrieved 12 April 2009.
5. Allan Ball career profile on the Queen of the South website Archived February 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
6. Jimmy Robertson interview and career profile on the Queen of the South website Archived February 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
7. Vernon, Leslie; Rollin, Jack (1977). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1977–78. London: Brickfield Publications Ltd. p. 491. ISBN   0354 09018 6.