Ted MacDougall

Edward John MacDougall (born 8 January 1947) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a forward.

He was a prolific goalscorer who played for eight teams, scoring 256 goals in 535 League appearances and winning seven full international caps for Scotland.

MacDougall joined Liverpool as an apprentice in 1964 and, on the day he turned 19, he was offered a professional contract at Anfield by manager Bill Shankly.

However, MacDougall did not make it at Liverpool, where Ian St. John, Roger Hunt and Tony Hateley shared the goal-scoring duties, and made no first-team appearances.

In 1967 MacDougall left Liverpool to join Fourth Division York City for £5,000.

He quickly established himself as a prolific centre-forward.

He scored on his debut against Workington, and went on to finish with 15 goals in his first season at Bootham Crescent.

In the following season MacDougall linked up for the first time with Phil Boyer, who helped him score 19 times despite the fact that York were struggling near the bottom of the table.

Despite the fact that MacDougall scored 40 goals in two seasons, York had to apply twice for re-election during his two seasons at the club

In the summer of 1969, manager Freddie Cox brought in three new strikers at Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic.

One of the new strikers, MacDougall, was to become known as "SuperMac".

£10,000 was paid to the Minstermen for MacDougall's signature.

Despite MacDougall's signing, and the 21 league goals he contributed, the Cherries were relegated to the 4th Division in 1970 and Freddie Cox was sacked by the then chairman Harold Walker.

In came John Bond, who, at first, didn't rate MacDougall.

By October, however, he had netted 16 goals, helping the team to climb to the top of the table.

That season also saw the club record for the number of goals scored in a game smashed as MacDougall put six past Oxford City in an FA Cup replay that eventually finished 8–1.

In December 1970, on MacDougall's recommendation, Bond snapped up Phil Boyer from York City to be re-united with MacDougall.

The pairing helped Bournemouth and Boscombe to promotion in second place, with MacDougall scoring 42 league goals.

In an FA Cup tie for AFC Bournemouth, in November 1971, he scored nine goals in an 11–0 win against Margate.

He formed a successful striking partnership with Phil Boyer at four of his clubs.

On their return to Division 3 in the 1971–72 season, and with the new name change to AFC Bournemouth implemented, Bournemouth finished in third place in Division 3, narrowly missing a second successive promotion at a time when only two clubs went up.

On 20 November 1971, MacDougall netted nine goals in Bournemouth's 11–0 victory over Margate in the first round of the FA Cup.

MacDougall scored five in the first half – at which point the Margate boss jokingly asked Bond to substitute their Tormentor – and another four after the interval.

This is still the largest-ever individual haul of goals by any player in the proper rounds of the FA Cup match, although two players – Chris Marron of South Shields and Paul Jackson of Stocksbridge Park Steels – have scored ten goals in the qualifying rounds.

MacDougall was becoming hot property with 35 league goals to his name.

Aside from his Margate exploits, he also hit the headlines in February of that season for his spectacular flying header away to Aston Villa in front of a 48,000 crowd and the Match of the Day cameras.

Wolverhampton Wanderers, West Ham United, Coventry City and Crystal Palace were all chasing the striker over the summer of 1972.

MacDougall stayed and pledged his loyalty to Bournemouth, but in September 1972, John Bond accepted an offer of £200,000 from Manchester United.

This was a Third Division transfer record at the time.

After 126 goals in just 165 appearances for the Cherries, MacDougall moved to Lancashire.

On 27 September 1972, MacDougall moved to Old Trafford after Manchester United offered Bournemouth £200,000 for his services.

United were in turmoil at this time, changing manager frequently and trying to replace players such as Denis Law and Bobby Charlton.

Frank O'Farrell, the manager who signed MacDougall, left the club soon afterwards and was replaced by Tommy Docherty, and MacDougall's transfer contract was the subject of litigation.

MacDougall scored on his home debut, at Old Trafford against Birmingham City.

Before the season was over, MacDougall had left Old Trafford, transferred to West Ham United, as Docherty set out to fashion a new United.

In his brief time at United MacDougall scored five goals in eighteen league games.

MacDougall's stay at West Ham was short.

Making his debut on 10 March 1973 against Sheffield United his first goal came in the next game, his home debut, a 2–1 home win against Manchester City.

MacDougall was born and raised in Inverness, moving to Widnes, Lancashire, with his parents shortly after his 12th birthday.

He subsequently played in a local men's amateur league, and worked as a trainee compositor on a local newspaper.