Edward John MacDougall was born on 8 January 1947 and is a Scottish former footballer who played as a forward.
24 Facts About Ted MacDougall
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Ted MacDougall was a prolific goalscorer who played for eight teams, scoring 256 goals in 535 League appearances and winning seven full international caps for Scotland.
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Ted MacDougall formed a successful striking partnership with Phil Boyer at four of his clubs.
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Ted MacDougall was born and raised in Inverness, moving to Widnes, Lancashire, with his parents shortly after his 12th birthday.
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Ted MacDougall subsequently played in a local men's amateur league, and worked as a trainee compositor on a local newspaper.
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Ted MacDougall joined Liverpool as an apprentice in 1964 and, on the day he turned 19, he was offered a professional contract at Anfield by manager Bill Shankly.
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However, Ted MacDougall did not make it at Liverpool, where Ian St John, Roger Hunt and Tony Hateley shared the goal-scoring duties, and made no first-team appearances.
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Ted MacDougall scored on his debut against Workington, and went on to finish with 15 goals in his first season at Bootham Crescent.
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One of the new strikers, Ted MacDougall, was to become known as "SuperMac".
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Ted MacDougall was becoming hot property with 35 league goals to his name.
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Frank O'Farrell, the manager who signed Ted MacDougall, left the club soon afterwards and was replaced by Tommy Docherty, and Ted MacDougall's transfer contract was the subject of litigation.
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Ted MacDougall scored on his home debut, at Old Trafford against Birmingham City.
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Ted MacDougall scored only one goal and was sent-off on 6 October 1973 for attacking Burnley player, Doug Collins.
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Ted MacDougall had scored the only West Ham goal of the game but Bonds had criticised his effort and the two fought in the dressing room.
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Ted MacDougall played only four more games, his last in December 1973.
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In 1973, MacDougall moved to Norwich City, where he was reunited with John Bond, who had managed him at Bournemouth, together with several of his former Dean Court colleagues.
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Ted MacDougall linked up again with Phil Boyer, who had played alongside MacDougall at both Bournemouth and York.
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The final against Aston Villa was a tense, scrappy affair in which Ted MacDougall had few scoring opportunities, with Villa winning by a single goal.
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Ted MacDougall made a scoring debut against Sweden, and managed three goals in seven games before being passed over as competition for places in the Scottish team was fairly intense at this time.
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In November 1978, six years after departing, Ted MacDougall rejoined Bournemouth, under manager John Benson, on a free transfer from Southampton.
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Ted MacDougall's second spell at Bournemouth was not as prolific as his first.
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In February 1980, MacDougall left Bournemouth to join Alan Ball's Blackpool as player-coach until October 1980 and thereafter was restricted to occasional matches in non-League football at Salisbury City, Poole Town and Gosport Borough.
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Ted MacDougall spent time based in Atlanta, USA, where he was youth Director of Coaching with the Atlanta Silverbacks.
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Ted MacDougall was for a period the landlord of the Mill Arms public house at Dunbridge, Hampshire.