Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 11 July 1900 | ||
Place of birth | Dennistoun, Scotland | ||
Height | 5 ft 10+1⁄2 in (1.79 m) [1] | ||
Position(s) | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1919–1921 | Cambuslang Rangers | ||
1921–1924 | Notts County | 32 | (5) |
1924–1930 | Swansea Town | 199 | (29) |
1930–1933 | Everton | 30 | (1) |
1933–1935 | New Brighton | 53 | (3) |
1935–1936 | Hereford United | ||
1936–1937 | Milford United | ||
Total | 314 | (38) | |
Managerial career | |||
1935–1936 | Hereford United | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Lachlan McPherson (born 11 July 1900) was a Scottish footballer who played as a left half or inside left.
Raised in the Springburn area of Glasgow, McPherson began his career as a teenager with Cambuslang Rangers in the Scottish junior leagues before moving south to English football; he never played for a senior Scottish club. [2]
His longest spell was at Swansea Town where he spent five seasons, made 199 Football League appearances [3] and helped the club to win the Third Division South and gain promotion in 1924–25, followed by a run to the semi-finals of the 1925–26 FA Cup. [4]
Prior to his time at the Swans, McPherson had been with Notts County, playing a part in their Second Division title in 1922–23 – although subsequently he featured only five times in the top tier [5] – and after his time in Wales he won the same medal again in 1930–31 with Everton. He had signed for the Toffees in January 1930 for a substantial £5,000 fee [6] a few days after Swansea teammate Ben Williams made the same move, [7] only for the team to be relegated five months later, recovering their top division status at the first time of asking. [8]
Technically McPherson was still part of the Everton squad as they went straight on to win the First Division in 1931–32, but he only made three appearances in the campaign, [5] and did not play first team football at Goodison Park for almost two years with his cause hampered by a serious knee injury, [9] and interested clubs deterred by the high value placed on his transfer by the club due to a determination to recoup as much as possible of the fee they paid Swansea for his services. Eventually he went to Merseyside neighbours New Brighton in August 1933 for a small fraction of that earlier deal. [1] [10]
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