Paul McKinnon
Paul McKinnon (born August 1, 1958 in Frimley ) is a former English football player . The striker has played in England, Sweden and Hong Kong during his career.
Career
McKinnon began his career in English non-league football at Sutton United , who had signed him in 1977 from the offspring of Woking FC . When Keith Blunt took over the coaching position of the Swedish club Malmö FF as the successor to Bob Houghton in the summer of 1980 , the player followed him to Skåne and was the club's first international professional together with Tim Parkin, who had also moved from England . By the end of the 1980 season he ran in six games in the Allsvenskan and contributed with two goals this season to the runner-up behind Östers IF . As the reigning cup winner, the club was also qualified for the 1980/81 European Cup Winners' Cup , but with the team around Robert Prytz , Ingemar Erlandsson and Thomas Sjöberg , it failed at the Portuguese representative Benfica Lisbon in the second round. In the first half of the season of the following season he came to eleven games, after five more goals in the Swedish top division, he returned after a year in the summer of 1981 to Sutton United.
McKinnon later moved to Ryoden FC in Hong Kong, but returned to England again. In early 1986 he moved again to Sweden and joined the third division team Tegs SK . For the club he scored 16 goals in 18 games during the season. As second in the table of Division 3 Norra Norrland , the club missed the promotion round to the second division, but survived a league reform at the third level. However, the striker had attracted attention through his personal success in his home country, the Blackburn Rovers brought him to Lancashire in northern England after the end of the season in the autumn . In the second division, he did not prevail, he only booked five appearances by the spring of 1987. He then wanted to return to Tegs SK, but the club now had three other foreign players under contract. Rolf Zetterlund steered him into the second Swedish league for Örebro SK . In the following two years he scored eleven goals in 45 games for the central Swedish club. In the summer of 1988 he was with the team around Sven Dahlkvist and Christer Fursth in the final of the Swedish National Cup , in the 1: 3 defeat against IFK Norrköping he scored the consolation goal . Despite being promoted to the Allsvenskan at the end of the 1988 season, he left the club and returned to Sutton United again in January 1989. In 1991 he joined the non-league club Slough Town FC , in the 1993/94 season he returned to Sutton one more time before ending his active career. He is the record scorer with 279 goals for the club.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ aftonbladet.se: "Importsvenskan" (accessed on July 13, 2011)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McKinnon, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frimley |