Jock Mulraney

Infobox Football biography
playername = Jock Mulraney


fullname = Ambrose Mulraney
dateofbirth = May 18, 1916
cityofbirth = Wishaw
countryofbirth = Scotland
dateofdeath = 2001 (aged about 85)
cityofdeath = Kinver
countryofdeath = England
height = 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
position = Winger
youthyears =
youthclubs = Wishaw White Rose
Carluke Rovers
years = 1933–1935
1935–1936
1936–1945
1945–1947
1947–1948
1948
1948–1949
1949–1952
clubs = Celtic
Dartford
Ipswich Town
Birmingham City
Shrewsbury Town
Kidderminster Harriers
Aston Villa
Cradley Heath
caps(goals) = 00 00(0)
60 0(18)
27 00(8)
0? 00(0)
12 00(2)
manageryears = 1949–1952
1952–1953
managerclubs = Cradley Heath "(player-manager)"
Brierley Hill Alliance

Ambrose "Jock" Mulraney (May 18, 1904 – 2001) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a winger. He played for Ipswich Town in their first season in the Football League, for Birmingham City in wartime football and in the Football League Second Division, and for Aston Villa in the top flight.

Biography

Mulraney was born in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was a small man of slight build,cite web
url=http://www.tmwmtt.com/sql/players/profile.phtml?fullname=Ambrose%20Mulraney |title=Ambrose Mulraney |work=Pride of Anglia (an Ipswich Town resource) |accessdate=2007-09-07] with considerable pace and trickery,cite book
author=Tony Matthews |title=Birmingham City: A Complete Record |year=1995 |publisher=Breedon Books |pages=p. 113 |isbn=1-85983-010-2] whose preferred position was outside-right, but he was also capable of playing on the left wing. He began his football career with junior clubs Wishaw White Rose and Carluke Rovers, and had a trial for Scotland schoolboys, before joining Celtic in 1933. Unable to break into the first team at Celtic, he had trials at a variety of clubs both within Scotland and outside it [cite web
url=http://leytonorient.rivals.net/default.asp?sid=960&p=2&stid=8316918 |title=Morrell-Newey |author=Neil Kaufman |work=LOFC Online (a Leyton Orient fansite) |date=2003-08-05 |accessdate=2007-09-07Online information sourced from author's book:
cite book
author=Neilson N. Kaufman |title=The Men Who Made Leyton Orient Football Club |date=2002-07-01 |publisher=Tempus Publishing |coauthors=assisted by Alan E. Ravenhill |isbn=9780752424125] before moving to England to join Southern League Dartford in 1935.

A year later he moved to Ipswich Town, then also in the Southern League, and helped them to the 1936–37 championship. The following season Ipswich finished third in the Southern League and successfully applied for election to the Football League, where they were placed in the Third Division South. Mulraney was only able to play one full league season for Ipswich before the Second World War intervened. He scored their first ever away goal in the Football League, the only goal of the game at Walsall in August 1938, and their first ever Football League hat-trick, in the 4–0 win over Bristol City on April 8, 1939.

Mulraney served in the RAF during the war as a PT Instructor, reaching the rank of Flight Sergeant.His military service did not prevent him playing in the wartime football competitions, in which he made guest appearances for no less than twelve clubs.cite web
url=http://web.telia.com/~u27301997/978.html |title=Mulraney, Ambrose (Jock) "Mull" |work=Aston Villa Players Database |accessdate=2007-09-07] From 1943–44 onwards he was able to play regularly for Birmingham City, where he scored 41 goals in 118 appearances in wartime football. On demobilisation from the RAF in October 1945, he joined the club permanently for a fee of £3,750. That season he contributed to the club winning the championship of the Football League South and scored seven goals in their run to the semi-final of the first post-war FA Cup. [Matthews, p. 240.]

In July 1947 he joined Shrewsbury Town, where he won a Midland League championship medal, [cite web
url=http://www.fchd.info/SHREWSBT.HTM |title=Shrewsbury Town |work=Football Club History Database |author=Richard Rundle |accessdate=2007-09-07] and a year later joined Southern League Kidderminster Harriers. [cite web
url=http://www.kidderminsterharriers.com/harriers/results.php?season=1949 |title=Kidderminster Harriers Results 1948-1949 |work=St@tto's Kidderminster Harriers Site |accessdate=2007-09-11] Two months later, in September 1948, he signed for First Division Aston Villa, where he ended his Football League career. He then tried his hand at management with Cradley Heath in the Birmingham & District League, where he had three years as player-manager, and in 1952 with Birmingham & District League champions Brierley Hill Alliance.

Mulraney suffered a heart attack in 1968 from which he recovered.He settled in Kinver, Staffordshire, where he died in the summer of 2001 at the age of 85.

Honours

* with Ipswich Town
** Southern League champions 1937.
** Election to the Football League 1938.
* with Birmingham City
** Football League South champions 1946.
* with Shrewsbury Town
** Midland League champions 1948.

References

External links

[http://www.tmwmtt.com/sql/players/profile.phtml?fullname=Ambrose%20Mulraney Profile] at [http://www.tmwmtt.com/index.phtml Pride of Anglia (an Ipswich Town resource)] .

Persondata
NAME = Mulraney, Ambrose
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Mulraney, Jock
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Professional footballer
DATE OF BIRTH = 1916-05-18
PLACE OF BIRTH = Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
DATE OF DEATH = 2001
PLACE OF DEATH = Kinver, Staffordshire, England