Martin Moran (footballer)
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Martin Moran McInally | ||
| Date of birth | 8 December 1873 | ||
| Place of birth | Blantyre, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 26 January 1967 (aged 93) | ||
| Place of death | Montreal, Canada[1] | ||
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)[2] | ||
| Position | Outside right | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| – | Benburb | ||
| 1898 | Celtic | 1 | (0) |
| 1898–1899 | Clyde | 10 | (1) |
| 1899–1900 | Sheffield United | 7 | (0) |
| 1900–1902 | Middlesbrough | 36 | (5) |
| 1902–1904 | Millwall Athletic | 86 | (13) |
| 1904–1905 | Heart of Midlothian | 24 | (1) |
| 1905–1908 | Chelsea | 63 | (6) |
| 1908–1909 | Celtic | 2 | (0) |
| 1909–1910 | Hamilton Academical | 20 | (1) |
| 1910–1911 | Albion Rovers | 3 | (0) |
| Total | 252 | (27) | |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Martin Moran (8 December 1873 – 26 January 1967)[3] was a Scottish footballer who played mainly as an outside right.[4][5] His many clubs included Celtic (two spells),[6] Clyde, Heart of Midlothian,[7] Hamilton Academical[2] and Albion Rovers in Scotland, and Sheffield United, Middlesbrough,[8] Millwall Athletic and Chelsea in England.[9] Small and slight in stature, he was known as "Mighty Midget".
His first spell at Celtic in 1898, included appearances in a two-legged friendly billed as the informal 'Championship for Great Britain' against Sheffield United (although the first match took place before either club was officially champion of their nation),[10] prior to being moved on in October of that year along with several other fringe players in a cost-cutting measure.[11]
After a good season with Clyde he moved to England with Sheffield United, where he was a back-up squad member as the Blades were runners-up in the 1899–1900 Football League, then played a minor role in Middlesbrough's promotion from the second tier in 1901–02. From 1902 to 1904 he appeared in 99 competitive matches (17 goals) for Millwall Athletic,[12] reached the FA Cup semi-final in 1902–03 and won the London League and the Southern Professional Charity Cup in 1903–04.[13] In his season with Hearts back in Scotland he won the minor Rosebery Charity Cup,[7] and was involved in another English promotion with Chelsea in 1906–07, having been in their first-ever team the previous year. On returning to Celtic in 1908, a decade after his previous time in Glasgow (this time in the role of an experienced reserve), he was a Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup winner.[11]
Moran played in the Home Scots v Anglo-Scots international trial match of 1905 while contracted to Hearts,[4][14] but received no further representative honours.