Robert McMahon is a Scottish

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analyst for

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. He appears exclusively on ''

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''. Born in

Dundee Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...

, McMahon played football at the school and youth level, before going on to play for

Tayport Tayport, also known as Ferry-Port on Craig, is a town and burgh, and parish, in the county of Fife, Scotland, acting as a commuter town for Dundee. The motto of the Burgh is ''Te oportet alte ferri'' ("It is incumbent on you to carry yourself ...

Fife Fife (, ; gd, Fìobha, ; sco, Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i ...

, then one of Scotland's top amateur teams. During his time with ''the Port'', he was selected for a Scottish Amateurs team trial. He also had a brief spell at the

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level. After

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to Canada in 1979, he played ON and coached a number of teams in

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while representing

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on many occasions, highlighted by a representative game against

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. He was the

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of the

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. In 2022 Bobby was part of a 15-person group called “Stuart’s Band of Brothers” that walked the 96-mile West Highland Way as a fundraiser in memory of their friend Stuart Fraser. The group exceeded their fundraising target of £30,000 for Prostate Cancer UK.

External links

Profile on FoxSoccer.com

Bobby McMahon's Blog
Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian sportswriters Canadian television sportscasters Footballers from Dundee Sportspeople from Winnipeg Writers from Winnipeg Scottish emigrants to Canada Scottish footballers Scottish expatriate footballers Chief operating officers Men's association football players not categorized by position {{Canada-tv-bio-stub