Walter Ross Borthwick (4 April 1948 – 24 April 2021) was a Scottish

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player and coach. He played for

Greenock Morton Greenock Morton Football Club is a Scottish professional football club, which plays in the . The club was founded as Morton Football Club in 1874, making it one of the oldest Scottish clubs. Morton was renamed Greenock Morton in 1994 to celebr ...

Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club, commonly referred to as Brighton, is a professional football club based in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Their home gr ...

, East Fife, St Mirren,

St Johnstone St Johnstone Football Club is a professional association football club in Perth, Scotland. The team competes in the , the second division of Scottish football. The club's name is derived from St John's Toun (or Saint Johnstoun)—an old name o ...

, and

Dunfermline Athletic Dunfermline Athletic Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in the city of Dunfermline, Fife. Founded in 1885, the club currently compete in the after winning the 2022–23 Scottish League One title. Dunfermline play at ...

. He later managed

Arbroath Arbroath () or Aberbrothock ( ) is a former royal burgh and the largest town in the Subdivisions of Scotland, council area of Angus, Scotland, Angus, Scotland, with a population of 23,902. It lies on the North Sea coast, some east-northeast of ...

and was the first team coach at Hearts during most of the 1980s. Borthwick subsequently worked for the

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in East Lothian, before retiring in March 2013.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Borthwick, Walter 1948 births 2021 deaths Footballers from Edinburgh Men's association football midfielders Scottish men's footballers Greenock Morton F.C. players Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players East Fife F.C. players St Mirren F.C. players St Johnstone F.C. players Dunfermline Athletic F.C. players Scottish Football League players English Football League players Scottish football managers Arbroath F.C. managers Scottish Football League managers Heart of Midlothian F.C. non-playing staff Scottish football coaches