36 Facts About Peter Cormack

Peter Barr Cormack was a Scottish professional football player and manager.

Peter Cormack collected nine full caps for the Scotland national football team, and was a member of the Scotland squad at the 1974 FIFA World Cup that went undefeated but did not advance out of the group stage of the tournament.

Peter Cormack managed Partick Thistle, Anorthosis FC, Botswana, Cowdenbeath and Greenock Morton.

Peter Cormack held roles of assistant manager and interim manager at St Mirren and was assistant manager at Hibernian.

Peter Cormack was the first ground staff boy at Tynecastle Park since Hearts all-time great Tommy Walker in the 1930s.

However Peter Cormack left following an incident in which a grass cutting machine damaged a perimeter wall.

Peter Cormack was quickly signed by cross city rivals Hibernian who he joined in 1962.

Peter Cormack scored the opener against Real volleying home a cross by Neil Martin.

Peter Cormack played regularly with Hibs in Europe but was unable to progress past the quarter final stage.

Peter Cormack scored 75 goals in 182 league games for Hibs in this spell.

Peter Cormack was sold in 1970 when after a second sending off in a short period of time he was given a three-month suspension by the authorities in Scotland.

Aged 23, in March 1970 Peter Cormack was signed by Matt Gillies at Nottingham Forest.

Forest started the season well with Peter Cormack being unbeaten and fourth in the league after six games.

Four days before his 26th birthday in July 1972, Peter Cormack signed for Liverpool, managed by Bill Shankly.

Shankly told Peter Cormack he was 'the final piece in the jigsaw' of that Liverpool team and he became an integral part of the Liverpool midfield as the Anfield club won their first trophies of the 1970s with the League championship and the UEFA Cup.

Peter Cormack's throw-in fed Chris Lawler to provide the high cross for the first goal.

In total, Peter Cormack played 52 games and scored 10 goals in his first season at Anfield.

Peter Cormack played in the final in central midfield with another Scottish-born player, Brian Hall.

Peter Cormack played in all eight games in that FA Cup run and in all 42 league matches that season, two of those as a substitute, as Liverpool finished second to Leeds United in the league.

Peter Cormack started his third season with the club by scoring a penalty in the penalty shoot-out win against Leeds in the 1974 FA Charity Shield.

Liverpool again finished second in the league that season, this time to Dave Mackay's Derby County FC Peter Cormack played 36 league games, scoring three goals.

Peter Cormack scored the only goal in what was to be a landmark game for him.

Peter Cormack was an unused substitute in the 1976 FA Charity Shield win against Southampton at the start of the following season.

Peter Cormack played 178 first team games in total, scoring 26 goals.

Peter Cormack joined the fray as a half-time substitute when his team were a goal down.

Peter Cormack scored 15 goals in 67 league games in Bristol.

Aged 33, in February 1980 Peter Cormack returned to Hibernian where he lined up alongside George Best.

Peter Cormack scored once in 20 league games in this second Hibs spell.

However, on 15 November 1986 Miller was appointed manager of Hibs after which Peter Cormack had two games in charge of Saints as interim manager.

Peter Cormack then followed Miller to Hibs as his assistant manager .

However Peter Cormack was sacked after 10 days during which time his side never played a game.

Peter Cormack offered a serious attacking threat from headers with an apparent natural ability to hang in the air.

Peter Cormack had a prance like style of running, by running on the balls of his feet.

Peter Cormack retired from professional football after he left Morton in 2002.

Peter Cormack's son, named Peter, played football in Scotland for various clubs.

Peter Cormack died from complications of dementia on 10 October 2024, at the age of 78.