Sandy Pate

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Sandy Pate
Personal information
Full name Alexander Montgomerie Pate
Date of birth (1944-08-15) 15 August 1944 (age 78)
Place of birth Lennoxtown, Scotland
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
Renfrew FC
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1965–1967 Watford 15 (0)
1967–1978 Mansfield Town 413 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alexander Montgomerie "Sandy" Pate (born 15 August 1944 in Lennoxtown, Scotland) is a retired footballer who spent the majority of his career at Mansfield Town. His position on the pitch was right-back.

Pate began his career at Scottish junior side Renfrew FC, and was signed by Watford in 1965. He had played as a right-winger in his younger days, but was converted into a right-back at Watford, where he remained a reserve behind player-manager Ken Furphy, a right-back himself. [1]

In October 1967, Pate was signed by Mansfield Town, and immediately put into the side by manager Tommy Eggleston. On 26 February 1969, Pate was a member of the Mansfield side that picked up a shock 3–0 win against West Ham United in the fifth round of the FA Cup to reach the quarter-finals for the first time in the club's history. [2]

Pate remained at Field Mill until 1978, and was a member of the Mansfield teams that won the Fourth and Third division titles in 1975 and 1977 respectively, before retiring from the game at the end of 1977-78, Mansfield's only season at the second tier of English football.

At the time of his retirement, Pate had made a club-record 479 first-team appearances for the club (413 of those in league competition [3] ). The record has since been broken by his teammate Rod Arnold, but Pate remains in second place on Mansfield's all-time appearance list. He still lives in the Mansfield area. Included in his 479 first team appearances is a near seven year, run of 366 consecutive appearances in all competitions.[ citation needed ]

In June 2009, Pate was honoured by the club when the supporters' bar at the club's Field Mill ground was renamed the Sandy Pate Bar. [4] [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Bracegirdle, Dave & Hartshorn, Steve (2004). The Legends of Mansfield Town. Breedon Books. ISBN   1-85983-435-3.
  2. ↑ "Mansfield 3, West Ham 0". Stagsnet. Retrieved 1 September 2009.
  3. ↑ "Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database". Neil Brown. Retrieved 1 September 2009.
  4. ↑ Stags' bar to be named after Sandy Pate, Mansfield Chad (29 April 2009). Retrieved on 1 September 2009.
  5. ↑ "Stags unveil the Kevin Bird suite". Chad, 3 June, 2009, p.103. Accessed 5 March 2023
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