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Duncan McLean
Duncan McLean may refer to: * Duncan McLean (footballer, born 1868) (1868–1941), Scottish international footballer with Everton and Liverpool * Duncan McLean (footballer, born 1874) (1874–after 1952), Scottish footballer with Partick Thistle and Southampton * Duncan McLean (writer) (born 1964), Scottish novelist, playwright, and short story writer * Duncan McLean, Australian founder of Way Funky, Way Funky Company Pte Ltd, a swimwear apparel manufacturing company {{hndis, Maclean, Duncan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan McLean (footballer, Born 1868)
Duncan McLean (20 January 1868 – 17 November 1941) was a Scottish footballer who played for Renton, Everton, Liverpool, St Bernard's and Scotland in the latter years of the 19th century. Club career McLean played for Renton Union and Renton, before signing for Everton in 1890 when the Dunbartonshire club were expelled from the Scottish Football League for matters relating to professionalism. He played a bit part in their first league title triumph in the following season. The departure of Andrew Hannah to Renton that summer gave McLean his chance to establish himself as the regular first choice right back at the club, although the club were unable to repeat the form of the previous year, finishing fifth. A summer of off the field turmoil followed in which directors, staff and players alike were forced to choose sides in a rent dispute over Anfield Road, which saw the club literally split in two. Everton moved out, along with the vast majority of their players, sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan McLean (footballer, Born 1874)
Duncan McLean (30 June 1874 – 31 January 1965) was a Scottish professional footballer who played for various clubs around the turn of the 20th century, including Southampton in 1898–99, where he helped win the Southern League championship. Football career McLean was born in the Govan area of Glasgow and trained as a shipyard engineer. After a spell on the books of Partick Thistle as an amateur, his work took him to Cowes on the Isle of Wight in southern England. Whilst working at Cowes, he turned out for Cowes F.C., playing in the Southern League Second Division. In early 1899, he was spotted by George Thomas, a director of Southampton F.C. and was signed by the "Saints" as a professional. He made his debut for Southampton on 11 March 1899, when he took the place of David Steven at inside-right in a 4–1 victory over Bristol City. For the next match, at home to Chatham, McLean moved to outside-left, replacing George Seeley and scored in another 4–1 victory. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan McLean (writer)
Duncan McLean (born 1964) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright, and editor. Life and works Duncan McLean was born in Fraserburgh and has lived in Orkney since 1992. While based in Edinburgh in the 1980s, he started writing songs, stand-up routines, and plays for the Merry Mac Fun Co, a street theatre and comedy act with agitprop tendencies. The Merry Macs won various awards, and were twice nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award. In the 1990s McLean was part of a loose grouping of writers centred on Edinburgh whose characters were mainly poor, working class and young, whose themes were drugs, drink, dance music, violence and alienation, and who took their inspiration variously from the Glaswegian writers of the previous generation, notably James Kelman, and from overseas writers like Richard Brautigan and Knut Hamsun. Among the so-called "Beats of Edinburgh", besides McLean, were Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Laura Hird and Gordon Legge, along with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
