Andrew Lorimar Lochhead (9 March 1941 – 18 March 2022Andy Lochhead (1941-2022)
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who played as a

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Career

Lochhead was born in

Milngavie Milngavie ( ; gd, Muileann-Ghaidh) is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland and a suburb of Glasgow. It is on the Allander Water, at the northwestern edge of Greater Glasgow, and about from Glasgow city centre. It neighbours Bearsden. Mi ...

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, Scotland. He started his career at

Burnley Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, Lancashire, Preston, at the confluence of the River C ...

and made his first team debut in 1960. He remains the only player to have scored five goals for ''the Clarets'' on two occasions. On 26 December 1963, he scored four goals in a 6–1 win over Manchester United at

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. In 1968, he was sold to

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and appeared in their 1969 FA Cup Final 1–0 defeat against Manchester City. He was sold to Aston Villa after the final and played in the

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for Villa. In 1972 following his contribution to the Villa's promotion to Division 2 (19 goals) he was voted the midlands footballer of the year in a write-in poll conducted by the

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newspaper. In 1973, he was sold to

Oldham Athletic Oldham Athletic Association Football Club is a professional football club in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in the National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system. The history of Oldham Athletic be ...

. He had a brief spell in America with

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before retiring.

Honours

As a player

Leicester City * FA Cup finalist:

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Aston Villa * League Cup finalist: 1971 * Division 3: 1971–72 Oldham Athletic * Division 3: 1973-74

References

* * 1941 births 2022 deaths People from Milngavie Scottish men's footballers Men's association football forwards Scotland men's under-23 international footballers English Football League players North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players Burnley F.C. players Leicester City F.C. players Aston Villa F.C. players Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players Denver Dynamos players Scottish expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Scottish expatriate men's footballers {{Scotland-footy-forward-1940s-stub