Doug McGibbon
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Douglas McGibbon | ||
| Date of birth | 24 February 1919 | ||
| Place of birth | Netley, England | ||
| Date of death | 25 October 2002 (aged 83) | ||
| Place of death | Aylesbury, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Centre forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Air Service Training (Hamble) | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1938–1947 | Southampton | 13 | (9) |
| 1947–1948 | Fulham | 43 | (18) |
| 1948–1951 | Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic | 103 | (65) |
| 1951–???? | Lovells Athletic | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Douglas "Doug" McGibbon (24 February 1919 – 25 October 2002) was an English footballer who played at centre forward for Southampton, Fulham and Bournemouth in the years just after the Second World War. He once scored six goals in a match, one of which was timed at under 5 seconds from the second half kick-off.
McGibbon was born in Netley, Hampshire, the son of Charlie McGibbon (1880–1954), who was a centre forward for several clubs, including Southampton, in the 1900s. At the time Doug was born, his father had retired and was employed as the Chief Clerk in the Statistical Office at Netley Hospital.
Doug McGibbon played his youth football with the Air Service Training at Hamble. During a charity cricket match, he approached the Southampton manager Tom Parker for a trial. Parker gave McGibbon a game with the "Saints" "A" team, against Lymington Town, during which he scored a hat trick. This was sufficient to persuade Southampton to offer him a professional contract, which he signed in December 1938, going on to make his first-team debut in the final match of the 1938–39 season, replacing Reg Tomlinson in a 2–0 defeat at Plymouth.
McGibbon remained in Southampton at the start of the Second World War, making 16 appearances (scoring 7 goals) in the wartime leagues in 1939–40 before he moved to Swindon to work as an aircraft mechanic as part of the war effort. While at Swindon, he played for Swindon Railway in 1944 and then for Swindon Town in the 1945–46 season where he made five appearances, scoring three goals. Swindon Town approached Southampton with a view to signing him on a full-time basis, but the Saints board refused and McGibbon returned to Southampton.
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