1. George Neil Farm was a Scottish professional football goalkeeper and manager.
24 Facts About George Farm
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George Farm played briefly for Hibernian before making over 500 appearances for Blackpool winning the FA Cup once and collecting one FA Cup runners-up medal.
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George Farm made over 100 appearances for Queen of the South who he managed in a promotion to Scotland's top division.
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George Farm managed Dunfermline Athletic to a Scottish Cup victory and the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup.
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George Farm was a perfectionist, and could often be seen practicing long after his teammates had left.
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George Farm was kept out of the Hibs team by the good form of Jimmy Kerr.
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George Farm signed for Blackpool, then in the England first division, on a free transfer.
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George Farm made his league debut for Blackpool on 18 September 1948, replacing an out-of-form Joe Robinson, in a home draw against Bolton Wanderers.
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Robinson did not play for Blackpool again, as George Farm went on to play in 111 consecutive league games.
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George Farm played in all 47 of Blackpool's FA Cup ties between 1949 and 1960.
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George Farm was runner-up in the 1951 FA Cup Final and winner in the 1953 FA Cup Final.
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George Farm injured a shoulder and replaced Mudie at centre-forward, where he proceeded to open the scoring with his head.
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In February 1960, at the age of 35 and after over 500 first-team appearances for the Tangerines, George Farm was granted a transfer.
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George Farm was not part of Scotland's trip to the 1954 FIFA World Cup finals despite having played in the qualification campaign.
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George Farm went on to make 119 league appearances for the Dumfries club, replacing McKinnell to become player-manager in three of his four years with the club.
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The local press was filled with comments backing George Farm and criticising the Willie Harkness-led board.
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Harkness initially announced George Farm had "left by mutual consent" before admitting the club's directors had met to "relieve Mr George Farm of his duties as manager".
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The board retained him as a player, even though George Farm had promptly dropped himself the month before after Queens signed young goalkeeper Allan Ball to take over the number 1 jersey debuting on 14 December 1963 against Falkirk.
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Between 1967 and 1970, George Farm took charge of Dunfermline, with whom he won 51 out of 107 league games, in addition to winning the Scottish Cup in 1968 and guiding them to the semi-finals of the resulting 1969 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup campaign.
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George Farm was a first time inductee into the Dunfermline Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005.
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When George Farm finally retired from football in 1974, he and his wife enjoyed a quiet life in Edinburgh.
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George Farm was known in his later years as a commentator and journalist, but spent a short spell as a lighthouse keeper.
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In 1988, George Farm returned to Bloomfield Road to take part in Blackpool FC's celebrations to mark the Football League's centenary.
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George Farm died in 2004 in the city of his birth, five days after his 80th birthday.