Tosh McKinlay

Football player infobox
playername = Tosh McKinlay


fullname = Thomas Valley McKinlay
height = height|ft=5|in=7
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1964|12|3
cityofbirth = Glasgow
countryofbirth = Scotland
currentclub =
clubnumber =
position = Leftback, Left Wingback
youthyears =
youthclubs = Celtic Boys Club
years = 1981-1988 1988-1994 1994-1999 1998 1999 2000
clubs = Dundee Hearts Celtic → Stoke City (loan) Grasshopper Kilmarnock
caps(goals) = 162 (8) 206 (6) 090 (0) 003 (0) 004 (0) 015 (0)
nationalyears = 1995-1998
nationalteam = Scotland Scotland U-21s
nationalcaps(goals) = 023 (0) 015 (0)

Thomas Valley "Tosh" McKinlay (born 3 December 1964 in Glasgow) is a Scottish former international footballer. A fullback or wingback, he spent most of his career in Scotland.

McKinlay began his career with Dundee, whom he joined from Celtic Boys Club in 1981. He became a first-team regular while still a teenager and spent over 7 years at Dens Park before being sold to Heart of Midlothian for £300,000 in December 1988. He stayed with the Tynecastle club until 1994, when the death of his infant son led him to seek a change of scenery.

In November 1994 he joined his boyhood team Celtic in a £350,000 transfer and just over 6 months later gained his first winners medal as the Glasgow side defeated Airdrie to win the 1994-95 Scottish Cup. He won his first full Scotland cap aged 30 in 1995 against Greece and went on to earn selection for both the 1996 European Championships and the 1998 World Cup. He was a regular player for Celtic until he was displaced by Stéphane Mahé in the 1997-98 season, during which time he went on loan to Stoke City.

After leaving Celtic permanently in 1999, McKinlay spent a year in Switzerland with Grasshopper-Club Zürich before returning to Scotland to finish his career with a short spell at Kilmarnock. On retiring he took up a post as an internet sports journalist with a Norwegian media company. He now works as an agent and pundit for Celtic Media.

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