Hamilton Accies 1974/75
My first season as an Accies fan , I witnessed two strikers at the opposite ends of their career spectrums.
JACKIE MCINALLY
Jackie played for Crosshill Thistle and won the Scottish Amateur Cup in 1959 before signing for Kilmarnock.
He was an integral part of the Killie team under manager Willie Waddell between 1960 and 1965 , where they were beaten finalists in Scottish Cup 1960 , League Cup Final in 1961 and 1963.
This Kilmarnock team won the Scottish League in 1965 famously beating Hearts at Tynecastle to snatch the championship from their Edinburgh rivals.
He played for Kilmarnock in a remarkable Fairs Cup game where they lost 3-0 away to Eintracht Frankfurt before going 4-0 down early in the second leg , before going on to win 5-4 on aggregate.
Another memorable European tie at Rugby Park saw Jackie brought down for a penalty against Real Madrid which Tommy McLean converted and although the Spanish giants scored twice , Jackie headed an equaliser to give Killie a creditable 2-2 draw, before losing 5-1 in Madrid.
Jackie scored 86 goals in 212 games for Kilmarnock before moving to Motherwell in 1968.
Jackie scored 37 goals in 134 games for Motherwell helping them win the Second Division in 1969.
Jackie then moved to Accies in 1973 and was part of the Accies team which just missed out on promotion finishing third behind Airdrie & Kilmarnock.
His final season in football saw him team up with a young Paul Hegarty during season 1974/75 before he retired from football.
His son Alan McInally had an illustrious career with Ayr, Celtic , Aston Villa, Bayern Munich, as well as playing for Scotland at Italia 90 and now works in the media.
PAUL HEGARTY
Paul Hegarty signed for Hamilton Accies at age of 17 in 1972 and was part of the Accies team that missed out on promotion in 1973/74. He scored 10 goals in 36 games.
Paul scored 12 goals for Accies in 20 games at the start of the 1974/75 season and this attracted Dundee Utd to sign him as they prepared to sell Andy Gray who would move on to Aston Villa a year later.
Jim McLean then moved Paul from a centre forward to a centre half pairing him with Dave Narey a move which transformed Paul’s career.
DUNDEE UTD
Paul Hegarty
He went to on captain Dundee Utd to their first major trophy the League Cup in 1979 having beaten Hamilton Accies 6-2 in the semi final, then retained the trophy the following season.
He was an ever present in the Dundee Utd team that won the Scottish League Championship in 1983 and featured in many of their famous European adventures.
Overall he made 687 appearances for Dundee Utd and won 8 Scotland caps.
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