Jim Blair (Scottish footballer)
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | James Blair[1] | ||
Date of birth | 13 January 1947 | ||
Place of birth | Calderbank, Scotland | ||
Date of death | 6 April 2011 | (aged 64)||
Place of death | Keerbergen, Belgium | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
Shotts Bon Accord | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1967–1970 | St Mirren | 84 | (40) |
1970–1971 | Hibernian | 18 | (5) |
1971–1973 | St Mirren | 50 | (20) |
1973–1974 | Norwich City | 6 | (0) |
1974–1977 | K.V. Mechelen | 93 | (14) |
Total | 251 | (79) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
James Blair (13 January 1947 – 6 April 2011) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a striker. Active between 1967 and 1977 in Scotland, England and Belgium, Blair made 158 appearances in the Scottish Football League and the Football League, scoring 65 goals.
Born in Calderbank, Blair played youth football for Shotts Bon Accord before turning professional with St Mirren in 1967. Blair moved to Hibernian in 1970, before returning to St Mirren a year later. Blair played in England for Norwich City between 1973 and 1974, before playing with Belgian club K.V. Mechelen.
Blair died at his home in Belgium on 6 April 2011, at the age of 64.[2]
Honours
[edit]St Mirren
References
[edit]- ^ "Jim Blair". Barry Hugman's Footballers.
- ^ "Jim Blair: 1947-2011". St Mirren official website. 9 April 2011. Archived from the original on 11 April 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
- ^ "Jim Blair". Cairters Corner. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
- Jim Blair at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
Categories:
- 1947 births
- 2011 deaths
- Scottish men's footballers
- Shotts Bon Accord F.C. players
- St Mirren F.C. players
- Hibernian F.C. players
- Norwich City F.C. players
- Scottish Football League players
- English Football League players
- Scottish expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
- Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
- Belgian Pro League players
- K.V. Mechelen players
- Footballers from North Lanarkshire
- Men's association football forwards
- Scottish Junior Football Association players
- 20th-century Scottish sportsmen
- Scottish football forward, 1940s birth stubs