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Birthdate:
22.01.1878
Birthplace: Hurlford, Ayrshire, Scotland
Other clubs: Hurlford Thistle, Clyde, Fulham, Leicester Fosse, Leicester Imperial (amateur)
Bought from: Clyde
Signed for LFC: £N/A 25.11.1897
Liverpool debut:
02.04.1898
Last appearance: 27.04.1903
Debut goal: 03.09.1898
Last goal: 23.03.1903
Contract expiry: January 1904
LFC league games/goals: 158 / 6
Total LFC games/goals: 174 / 6
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Player Notes:
Tough-tackling wing-half Bill joined his brother Archie at Anfield towards the end of the 20th Century and the brothers played together in the last 4 First Division matches of the 1897-98 season and in a further 41 league games before Archie left the club at the end of the 1899-1900 season. Bill continued to play for Liverpool for another three years and in fact played 129 consecutive games from 23rd of December 1899 until 27th April 1903. Goldie also picked up a winners' medal as the club won its first League championship title at the end of the 1900-01 season.
At the end of the 1902-3 Bill was caught accepting illegal financial inducements from Pompey to sign for the south coast club. As a result he along with team-mates John Glover and Sam Raybould were banned from football until 31st December 1903 and from ever signing for Portsmouth. When the suspension was over Bill joined Fulham in January 1904, having played his last ever game for Liverpool in April 1903. Bill won two Southern league championships with the Cottagers and featured in the 1907-1908 season which was Fulham‘s first ever League season in Division Two. This turned out to be his last and after 215 games for Fulham he joined Leicester Fosse which had been promoted to Division One, but was relegated a year later. Bill retired from a successful League career in 1911 and ran a pub while occasionally turning out for amateurs Leicester Imperial. His near-impenetrable Scottish accent once forced FA's disciplinary committee to employ an interpreter. |
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