Jackie Mudie

Jackie Mudie
Personal information
Full name John Knight Mudie[1]
Date of birth (1930-04-10)10 April 1930
Place of birth Dundee, Scotland
Date of death 2 March 1992(1992-03-02) (aged 61)
Place of death Stoke-on-Trent, England
Position(s) Centre forward
Youth career
Lochee Harp
Stobswell Juniors
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1947–1961 Blackpool 324 (144)
1961–1963 Stoke City 89 (32)
1961Toronto City (loan)
1963–1967 Port Vale 54 (9)
1967 Oswestry Town 3 (0)
Total 467 (185)
International career
1956–1958 Scotland 17 (9)
1958[2] SFA trial v SFL 1 (1)
Managerial career
1965–1967 Port Vale
1973 Northwich Victoria
1978 Cleveland Cobras
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Knight Mudie (10 April 1930 – 2 March 1992) was a Scottish international footballer who played as a forward. He won seventeen caps for his country, helping the Scotland national team to qualify for the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

Starting his career with Blackpool in 1947, he went on to spend the next fourteen years with the club, helping them to the FA Cup final in 1951 and 1953, the latter of which ended in victory for the Tangerines. In all, he scored 144 league goals for the club. He then spent 1961 to 1963 at Stoke City, helping them to the Second Division title in 1962–63, also spending a brief time on loan with Canadian club Toronto City. After signing with Port Vale in 1963, he spent 1965 to 1967 as the club's joint-manager, along with his long-time friend and teammate Stanley Matthews. He became a coach after he finished his career with Oswestry Town in 1967. However, he later managed Northwich Victoria in 1973 and then American side Cleveland Cobras for a spell in 1978.

  1. ^ "Jackie Mudie". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  2. ^ Scottish trial match at Easter Road, Glasgow Herald, 4 February 1958