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Bobby MURDOCH

Bobby MURDOCH - Middlesbrough FC - League appearances.

Photo/Foto: George Herringshaw

Date: 16 August 1975

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    • POSITION
      Midfielder.
    • DATE OF BIRTH
      Thursday, 17 August 1944
    • PLACE OF BIRTH
      Rutherglen, Scotland. Died 15th. May 2001 aged 56.
  • CLUBS
  • Middlesbrough FC
    • Club Career Dates
      1973-1976
    • League Debut
      29th. September 1973 in 2-0 home win over Bristol City. Bobby scored the 2nd. goal.
    • Club Career
      95 League appearances 6 goals.
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Bobby MURDOCH - Middlesbrough FC - League appearances.

Bobby Murdoch playing for Middlesbrough against Tottenham Hotspur

at White Hart Lane, in a 1-0 defeat.

 

Club career:


1973-1974   League Division Two 34 games  5 goals

1974-1975   League Division One 39 games  1 goal

1975-1976   League Division One 22 games


1973-1974   Middlesbrough League Cup 3 games

1974-1975   Middlesbrough FA Cup 4 games 1 goal

1974-1975   Middlesbrough League Cup 4 games

1975-1976   Middlesbrough FA Cup 1 game

1975-1976   Middlesbrough League Cup 6 games

 

1981-1982 Manager of Middlesbrough

 

Before joining Middlesbrough Bobby played 291 League games for Celtic

scoring 61 goals.

He was one of the 'Lisbon Lions', the Celtic team who won the

European Cup in 1967 the first British team to win the Cup.


He died, aged 56, in the Glasgow Victoria Infirmary, following a stroke.

He was survived by Kathleen his wife, a daughter and two sons.

Murdoch was the first of the Lisbon Lions to die