Ray McStay

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Ray McStay
Personal information
Full name Raymond James McStay [1]
Date of birth (1970-05-16) 16 May 1970 (age 54)
Place of birth Hamilton, Scotland
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Celtic Boys Club
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1987–1995 Celtic 0 (0)
1995–1996 Hamilton Academical 30 (5)
1996Hereford United (loan) 0 (0)
1996–1997 Cardiff City 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Raymond James McStay (born 18 May 1970) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Playing career

McStay began his career at Celtic, where his older brothers Willie and Paul, as well as his great-uncles Willie and Jimmy had already played. A product of Celtic Boys Club, McStay signed professional forms at the same time as youth teammate Gerry Creaney. [2] Despite being regularly mentioned as having a big future at the club McStay had to wait until the 1992–93 season before being called into the Celtic first team and even then he only made the bench for a single league game against St Johnstone and was not called upon to play. [3]

McStay left Celtic in January 1995 to sign for Hamilton Academical on a free transfer. He made 30 league appearances in nearly two years at the club although he spent summer of 1996 having an unsuccessful trial with Stade Lavallois. [4] He subsequently had a trial with Wycombe Wanderers and was poised to sign for the club in October 1996 but the move fell through for undisclosed reasons. [5] In late 1996 he was loaned to Hereford United where he did not play a league game before, during the 1996–97 season, playing a single game for Cardiff City. McStay quit football soon after this. [6]

In summer 1997, whilst on honeymoon in the Dominican Republic, McStay was admitted to hospital with severe stomach cramps and fever and was reported as suffering a "mystery illness" [7] and was described as critically ill. [8]

Post-football

McStay was the UK commercial director of Midgibyte, a Glasgow-based design consultancy business run by Paul McStay. [9] He now works at a Glasgow digital agency called MadeBrave.

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References

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  2. The Celtic Boys Club Past Players
  3. "Season 92-93: Part 3". Archived from the original on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
  4. Oui Chance for McStay
  5. "Whats the Score?; All the Soccer News". Sunday Mail . 20 October 1996.[ dead link ]
  6. Celts snub hasn't just hurt Paul .. it's hurt us all; EXCLUSIVE by RAYMOND McSTAY.
  7. "Family fears as bug hits honeymoon Celt McStay". Daily Mirror . 9 July 1997. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2014 via HighBeam Research.
  8. Wright, Lesley (9 July 1997). "McStay Critical on Hols Island". Daily Record .[ dead link ]
  9. Celtic legend's heading Down Under