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Scottish footballer

Maurice McLafferty
Personal information
Full name Maurice McLafferty
Date of birth (1922-08-07)7 August 1922
Place of birth Baillieston, Scotland
Date of death January 1999 (1999-02) (aged 76)
Place of death Worthing, England
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1945–1947 Celtic 0 (0)
1947–1950 Glenavon
1950–1951 St Mirren 1 (0)
1951–1952 Sheffield United 18 (0)
1952–1954 Brighton & Hove Albion 21 (0)
1954–195? Dartford
Hastings United
1958–195? Newhaven
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Maurice McLafferty (7 August 1922 – January 1999) was a Scottish professional footballer who played in the Scottish League for St Mirren and in the English Football League as a defender for Sheffield United and Brighton & Hove Albion.

Life and career

McLafferty was born in Baillieston, Scotland, in 1922. He was on Celtic's books after the Second World War, represented the Royal Air Force at football in 1946, and signed for Irish League club Glenavon in August 1947. He played twice for the Irish League representative team in March 1948, before returning to Scotland to sign for St Mirren in 1950. He made one appearance in the 1950–51 Scottish Division One season, and then moved to England to join Second Division club Sheffield United. Despite making 18 Second Division appearances, he was transfer-listed at the end of the season at a fee of £1,000. He rejected a return to Scottish football with Aberdeen in favour of remaining in England and dropping down a division with Brighton & Hove Albion.

Initially a reserve, McLafferty shared the left-back position with Reg Fox once Jack Mansell left the club in October 1952, and made 22 appearances in league and FA Cup combined. Both men lost their place to new arrival Jim Langley, and McLafferty moved into Southern League football with Dartford and Hastings United. After losing out to Frank Neary for the appointment as player-coach of Lewes, McLafferty took up the corresponding post at another Sussex County League club, Newhaven.

Off the field, McLafferty worked in Brighton & Hove Albion's fund-raising office and as steward of a gentlemen's social club. He died in Worthing, West Sussex, in 1999 at the age of 76.

References

  1. ^ "Maurice McLafferty". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  2. ^ Carder, Tim; Harris, Roger (1997). Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Hove: Goldstone Books. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-9521337-1-1.
  3. J.T.J. (23 August 1947). "Sporting Briefs". Lurgan Mail. p. 6 – via British Newspaper Archive. Glenavon have signed 21 year-old Maurice McLafferty, a half-back from Glasgow Celtic.
  4. jcd. "Irish League representative match line-ups". Northern Ireland's Footballing Greats (NIFG). Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  5. Hosie, Rab. "Scottish League appearance records: Mc: 2". Scottish Football Historical Archive. Brian McColl. p. 539. Archived from the original (DOC) on 28 November 2016.
  6. "6 League players among United's 16 'listed'". The Star Green 'un. Sheffield. 3 May 1952. p. 7.
    "Brighton's captures". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 12 July 1952. p. 20.
  7. "Frank Neary is appointed player-coach". Sussex Express & County Herald. 20 June 1958. p. 6.
    "Large crowd watch new player-coaches in action". Sussex Express & County Herald. 29 August 1958. p. 7. Maurice McLafferty played a useful but unspectacular game. His covering and anticipation were both excellent, and he used the ball well. Frank Neary did not emerge with such flying colours.
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