William Haddow Pettigrew (born 2 October 1953) is a Scottish former

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, who played as a striker for Motherwell,

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, Hearts,

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and

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. Pettigrew also represented

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Club career

Pettigrew started his career with Hibernian, but left them for

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club East Kilbride Thistle after failing to make a first-team breakthrough. He joined Motherwell in 1972, where he had his most prolific goalscoring spell, averaging better than a goal every two league games. He ended the 1975–76 season as the highest scorer in the

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at the age of 22. He repeated the feat when two years later in 1977–78. In 2019 it was announced that Pettigrew was to be inducted into the Motherwell F.C. Hall of Fame. In 1979,

purchased Pettigrew for £100,000. He went on to win the 1979 Scottish League Cup Final with United, scoring two goals in a 3–0 replay win against

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. He also played in the winning 1980 Final team, but this time the goals were scored by the two strikers who were the club's first choice pairing for the next few seasons,

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. In 1981, Pettigrew moved to Heart of Midlothian for a £120,000 fee, going on to achieve promotion to the Premier Division at the end of the 1982-83 season. He joined

in 1984 for one season, then ended his playing career the following season after playing a small number of games for

International career

It was at Motherwell that he won five caps for

, 4 in 1976 and 1 in 1977. Scotland won all five games, with Pettigrew scoring a goal in each of his first two appearances. He also played in two games for the

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in 1978 that both ended in 1-1 draws, giving Pettigrew an unbeaten career as an internationalist of seven games. He scored the Scottish League goal in the second of those two games. Having debuted for Scotland aged 22, his last full cap was aged 23 and his international career at all levels was over aged 25.

Honours

;Dundee United *

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: 1979–80, 1980–81 ;Heart of Midlothian * SFL First Division promotion: 1982–83 ; Scotland * British Home Championship: 1976–77, 1977–78

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pettigrew, Willie 1953 births Association football forwards Dundee United F.C. players East Kilbride Thistle F.C. players Greenock Morton F.C. players Hamilton Academical F.C. players Heart of Midlothian F.C. players Hibernian F.C. players Living people Motherwell F.C. players Footballers from Motherwell Scotland international footballers Scotland under-23 international footballers Scottish Football League players Scottish Football League representative players Scottish footballers Scottish Junior Football Association players Scottish league football top scorers Scotland junior international footballers