Tosh McKinlay

Tosh McKinlay
Personnel
Surname	Thomas Valley McKinlay
birthday	3rd December 1964
place of birth	Glasgow ,  Scotland
position	Full-back (left)
Juniors
Years	station
	Celtic Boys Club
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1981-1988	Dundee FC	162 (8)
1988-1994	Heart of Midlothian	206 (6)
1994-1999	Celtic Glasgow	99 (0)
1998	→  Stoke City  (loan)	3 (0)
1999-2000	Grasshoppers Zurich
2000	FC Kilmarnock	15 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1983-1985	Scotland U-21	6 (0)
1995-1998	Scotland	22 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas Valley "Tosh" McKinlay (born December 3, 1964 in Glasgow ) is a former Scottish football player . As a left full-back he was active in Scotland from 1981 to 1999 at FC Dundee , Heart of Midlothian and Celtic Glasgow , as well as in the squad of the Scottish national team at the Euro 1996 in England and the 1998 World Cup to France .

Athletic career

McKinlay was a talented left winger at a young age who stood out in the Scottish student national team with a hard shot and was trained at the Celtic Glasgow youth club , the Celtic Boys Club . His sporting breakthrough came from 1981 at FC Dundee , where he spent the next seven playing years of his career and was retired to the position of full-back.

As a teenager, he made his first-team debut in Dundee when he played against FC St. Mirren (2-1) at the end of the 1982/83 season. In the following season 1983/84 he was against FC Aberdeen in Pittodrie for the first time in the starting line-up and by the end of this season he completed 46 games. His game was characterized by many offensive runs, which he often completed with crosses and in the 3-1 away win against Heart of Midlothian , he contributed his first goal in October. Another success was reaching the semi-finals in the FA Cup , which was lost to the eventual title holder FC Aberdeen. Overall, McKinlay was three times in the semifinals. His second appearance was in a rousing derby in April 1987 against local rivals Dundee United (2: 3) and more than four months later his last in the League Cup again against Aberdeen (0: 2). In addition, he completed six international matches for the Scottish U-21 selection , where he made his debut under coach Andy Roxburgh in 1983 against the GDR and last played against Iceland in 1985 . McKinlay's time in Dundee came to an end in 1988 after Dave Smith succeeded Jocky Scott as coach . In addition to Graham Harvey , Alan Lawrence , Stuart Rafferty and Vincent Mennie , McKinlay asked for his clearance for a move shortly afterwards and after initial disagreements he was hired for £ 300,000 in Edinburgh at Heart of Midlothian in June 1988.

McKinlay was a regular player at the "Hearts" in the following years and the greatest success was winning the runner- up in the 1991/92 season . With his performances he made himself interesting for English clubs, but instead of playing there in the Premier League , he decided in November 1994 to move to his "heart club" from home Celtic Glasgow . The transfer fee was 350,000 pounds and with the team coached by Tommy Burns he won the Scottish FA Cup almost half a year later over a 1-0 in the final against Airdrieonians FC . In November 1995 he celebrated his debut for the Scottish national team with a 1-0 win against Greece at the age of almost 31 as a “late caller” . In mid-1996 he was in the “Bravehearts” squad at the European Championships in England , where he played two preliminary round matches against England (0: 2) and Switzerland (1: 0). After that, McKinlay had to fight more often with injuries and after winning the runner-up in 1997 with Celtic he was loaned to the English second division club Stoke City for a month at the end of January 1998 . In the later relegated team , he was unhappy with a red card against Middlesbrough FC (1: 2) and only played three games. To win the Scottish championship in 1998 McKinlay contributed only five league appearances at Celtic, where he had primarily ousted Stéphane Mahé as a regular player. Despite these sporting setbacks, McKinlay drove with Scotland to the 1998 World Cup finals in France and was substituted on for both Brazil (1: 2) and Morocco (0: 3) in the second half - the appearance against the North Africans was his 22nd and last international match. McKinlay left Celtic in the summer of 1999. Shortly thereafter, he ended his active career with Grasshoppers Zurich and FC Kilmarnock .

Title / Awards

• Scottish Cup (1): 1995

Web links

• Statistical data from the Post War English & Scottish Football League AZ Player's Database
• Tosh McKinlay in the soccerbase.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Legends Award Nominee No. 4 - Tosh McKinlay “ ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dundee FC) 
2. ^ Dean P. Hayes: Scotland! Scotland! The Complete Who's Who of Players since 1946. Sutton Publishing, Edinburgh 2006, ISBN 0-600-59581-1 , pp. 412 .