TOMMY McLEAN

292 games (1964 - 1971)

Kilmarnock FC Historian John Livingston put it best:

"Tommy McLean was the star of the greatest ever game played at Rugby Park."

A winger offering high-precision delivery, the number 7 is one of the all-time Kilmarnock legends. Tommy talks about his involvement in the most astounding comeback in Scottish football history: Killie’s 1964 recovery from 4-0 down against European legends, Eintracht Frankfurt.

The McLean Scottish footballing dynasty is one which endured for some 60 years. Younger brother of Willie and Jim, the quiet, modest member of the ‘Larkhall gang’ won all of his six Scotland caps while at Kilmarnock, a feat which cannot be underestimated.

Following the immediate impact of his senior debut against German football’s big deal, he emerged later in the season as a key player in the title triumph of 1965. A goal in the European Cup against eventual winners Real Madrid and a European Cities Fairs Cup semi final against Leeds United would follow as Kilmarnock maintained its position as a credible force in the game. And all before his 20th birthday. Six years after that last-day decider at Tynecastle, with the era of success threatened by part-time football, Tommy moved to Rangers. For all his subsequent achievements, he still reflects with genuine fondness on his times at a club where he is regarded as a true great.