Jock Wallace Jr.

"Jock Wallace" redirects here. For his father, the goalkeeper, see Jock Wallace Sr.

Jock Wallace
Personal information
Full name John Martin Bokas Wallace[1]
Date of birth (1935-09-06)6 September 1935
Place of birth Wallyford, Scotland
Date of death 24 July 1996(1996-07-24) (aged 60)
Place of death Basingstoke, England[2]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Blackpool
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1952–1953 Workington 6 (0)
1953–1954 Ashton United 3 (0)
1954–1958 Berwick Rangers 14 (0)
1958–1960 Airdrieonians 54 (0)
1960–1962 West Bromwich Albion 69 (0)
1962–1964 Bedford Town 79 (0)
1964–1966 Hereford United
1966–1969 Berwick Rangers 75 (0)
International career
1959[3] SFL trial v SFA 1 (0)
Managerial career
1966–1969 Berwick Rangers
1972–1978 Rangers
1978–1982 Leicester City
1982–1983 Motherwell
1983–1986 Rangers
1986–1987 Sevilla
1989 Colchester United
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Martin Bokas Wallace[4] (6 September 1935 – 24 July 1996) was a Scottish professional footballer and manager. Wallace played as a goalkeeper, and has the unique distinction of being the only player ever to play in the English, Welsh and Scottish Cups in the same season; this was set during the 1966–67 season where he played in the FA Cup and Welsh Cup for Hereford United, and in the Scottish Cup when he moved to Berwick Rangers.

As manager of Rangers over two spells in the 1970s and 1980s, Wallace became one of Scottish football's best-known and most successful coaches.

  1. ^ "Jock Wallace Jr". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  2. ^ "Obituary: Jock Wallace" independent.co.uk (26 July 1996)
  3. ^ The selectors still have problems Archived 27 December 2022 at the Wayback Machine, The Bulletin, 17 March 1959
  4. ^ Holmes, Jeff (22 April 2014). "It's Early Days" (PDF). Blue Thunder: The Jock Wallace Story. Pitch Publishing Ltd. p. 22. ISBN 978-1909626324. The middle name of Bokas was a square peg in a round hole, though. While Jock's dad, John Martin Wallace, played for the Seasiders, a team-mate was Frank Bokas, a Bellshill-born half-back who had started out his career at Kirkintilloch Rob Roy. One can only assume that the pair became best buddies during their time at Bloomfield Road, and that the unusual middle name was a nod to Jock senior's team-mate. Bokas died in 1996, the same year as Jock senior.