George Mulhall (8 May 1936 – 27 April 2018) was a Scottish football player and

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. Born in Falkirk, Mulhall played as an

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for

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and Sunderland. He was capped three times for

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. He became the manager of

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, Bolton Wanderers and

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Playing career

Two of Mulhall's elder brothers had forged professional careers; Martin with Falkirk, Albion Rovers and

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, and Edward with

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. George, who signed for

on his 17th birthday, had played at Denny YMCA and Kilsyth Rangers before moving to

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. Mulhall initially had difficulty breaking into the Aberdeen first team, as his left wing position was occupied by Jackie Hather. He made his first team debut on the opening day of the 1955–56 season, while Hather was recovering from injury, but he did not become a regular in the side until 1959. Mulhall earned his first international

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in October 1959, when he scored in a 4–0 win over

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. He played in 150 games for Aberdeen, scoring 42 goals. In September 1962 he signed for Sunderland for £23,000. Mulhall made 289 appearances and scored 67 goals for Sunderland, and he helped the team to win promotion to the First Division in 1963–64. Mulhall was ever-present that season, as part of a run of 114 consecutive appearances. He won another two international caps, also against Northern Ireland, before moving to South Africa to play for

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in 1969. He stayed for three seasons before playing one final game for

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Managerial career

Mulhall moved into coaching upon his playing retirement first becoming trainer-coach at

. He was promoted to first team manager in 1972, and held this position until September 1974. A month later he moved to Bolton Wanderers where he spent four years as coach and assistant manager. In November 1978 he moved to

to replace

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as manager. In his first full season he guided the club to 5th in

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before he was tempted back to Bolton in March 1981. He managed Bolton for one year until he was sacked. He served as a scout at

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and assistant manager at

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. He later returned to Halifax Town as joint manager with Kieran O'Regan and got them promoted back into the Football League in 1998, at which point Mulhall retired. Mulhall died on 27 April 2018, aged 81.

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