Gordon Logan
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Gordon Taylor Logan[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1949-10-03) 3 October 1949[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Kirkliston, Scotland[1] | ||
| Playing position | Right-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
Tynecastle Athletic | |||
| 1966–1967 | Port Vale | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1967–1970 | Port Vale | 35 | (1) |
| 1970–1971 | Kettering Town | ||
| 1971–19?? | Bo'ness United | ||
| National team | |||
Scotland Youth | 3 | (0) | |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
Gordon Taylor Logan (born 3 October 1949) is a Scottish former footballer who played at right-back for Port Vale, Kettering Town and Bo'ness United. He helped Port Vale to win promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1969–70. His father was former footballer Rennie Logan.
Contents
1 Playing career
2 Statistics
3 Honours
4 References
Playing career
The son of former Hibernian and Falkirk footballer Rennie Logan, Logan attended Broxburn High School, played for Tynecastle Athletic and captained the county schools team to the final of the Scottish Schools' Cup.[2] At the age of 16, he was signed to the Port Vale junior team by manager Stanley Matthews in June 1966.[2] He captained the "Valiants" reserve team and played in the team that reached the FA Youth Cup quarter finals.[2] He also won three caps for Scotland youth.[2] He signed professional forms with the club in March 1967.[1] He played seven Fourth Division games towards the end of the 1966–67 season.[1] He played 17 matches in the 1967–68 campaign, though Matthews came into trouble when it was revealed that Logan had been paid illegal bonuses.[1] He featured just four times in the 1968–69 season, as he fell out of favour under new boss Gordon Lee.[1] Logan played nine league and five FA Cup games in the 1969–70 promotion campaign, and scored his first senior goal on 13 September, in a 3–2 win over Oldham Athletic at Boundary Park.[1] He was given a free transfer to Southern League side Kettering Town in May 1970.[1] He then returned to Scotland to become a police officer in the summer of 1971 and also signed for SJFA side Bo'ness United, featuring regularly at right-back for a team that reached the finals of the Brown Cup & R L Rae Cup that season.[2]
Statistics
Source:[3]
| Club | Season | Division | League | FA Cup | Other | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Port Vale | 1966–67 | Fourth Division | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 1967–68 | Fourth Division | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | |
| 1968–69 | Fourth Division | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| 1969–70 | Fourth Division | 9 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | |
| Total | 35 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 0 | ||
Honours
- Port Vale
Football League Fourth Division fourth-place promotion winner: 1969–70[4]
References
^ abcdefghi Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 175. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ abcde "The day Sir Stanley Matthews came to Kirkliston". Linlithgow Gazette. 8 January 2010. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
^ Gordon Logan at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
^ Kent, Jeff (1990). "Surviving on a Shoestring (1969–1979)". The Valiants' Years: The Story Of Port Vale. Witan Books. pp. 227–257. ISBN 0-9508981-4-7.
