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Andy Lochhead

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Playing position
  
Striker

Role
  
Footballer

Years
  
Team

Height
  
1.82 m

1960–1968
  
Position
  
Name
  
Andy Lochhead


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Full name
  
Andrew Lorimar Lochhead

Date of birth
  
(1941-03-09) 9 March 1941 (age 74)

Place of birth
  
Milngavie, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK

Andrew Lorimar "Andy" Lochhead (born 9 March 1941) is a retired professional footballer who played as a striker. He was a tall, strong man, with great ability in the air leading to him scoring many headed goals.

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Lochhead was born in Milngavie, Stirlingshire, Scotland. He started his career at Burnley and made his first team debut in 1960. He remains the only player to have scored five goals for the Clarets on two occasions.

In 1968, he was sold to Leicester City and appeared in their 1969 FA Cup Final 1-0 defeat against Manchester City.

He was sold to Aston Villa after the final and played in the 1971 Football League Cup Final for Villa. In 1972 following his contribution to the Villa's promotion to Division 2 (19 goals) he was voted the midlands footballer of the year in a write-in poll conducted by the Birmingham Evening Mail newspaper. In 1973, he was sold to Oldham Athletic. He had a brief spell in America with Denver Dynamos before retiring.

Lochhead now looks after the sponsors on match days for Burnley as well as being a member of the Dave Clark Five fan club.

As a player

Leicester City

  • FA Cup finalist 1969
  • Aston Villa

  • League Cup finalist 1971
  • " Division 3 champions 1973

    References

    Andy Lochhead Wikipedia