Gerry McAloon
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Gerald Padua McAloon | ||
| Date of birth | 13 September 1916 | ||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 13 April 1987 (aged 70) | ||
| Playing position | Inside forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| St Francis | |||
| 1934–1938 | Brentford | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1938–1939 | Brentford | 21 | (8) |
| 1939–1945 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 2 | (1) |
| 1939–1940 | → Hamilton Academical (guest) | 21 | (10) |
| → Airdrieonians (guest) | |||
| → Albion Rovers (guest) | |||
| 1941–1943 | → Dumbarton (guest) | 34 | (17) |
| → Dunfermline Athletic (guest) | |||
| 1943–1944 | → Celtic (guest) | 21 | (10) |
| 1944–1945 | → Morton (guest) | ||
| 1945–1946 | Brentford | 7 | (4) |
| 1946–1948 | Celtic | 20 | (12) |
| 1948–1949 | Belfast Celtic | (2) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Gerald Padua McAloon (13 September 1916 – 13 April 1987) was a Scottish professional football inside forward who played in the Football League for Brentford and Wolverhampton Wanderers. He later played for Celtic and in Northern Ireland.
An inside forward, McAloon began his career in his home city Glasgow with junior club St Francis. He departed in 1934.
McAloon moved to England to sign for Division Two side Brentford. Owing to the abundance of talent at the club in the Bees forward line following the club's ascension to Division One in 1935, McAloon spent much of his time with the Bees playing for the reserve team in the London Combination. His prolific goalscoring form in the first half of the 1937–38 season, notching 18 goals, led manager Harry Curtis to give McAloon his senior debut in a league match versus Middlesbrough on 26 March 1938, a 1–0 win for Brentford. He scored his first goal for the club in the following game (a 6–1 demolition of Grimsby Town) and made a significant impact in the Bees' run in, scoring five goals in six games to help the club to a second successive sixth-place finish. Brentford's league form was poor during the following season and McAloon failed to get much game time, making 16 appearances and scoring four goals before departing the club in March 1939. In a year as a first team player at Griffin Park, McAloon made 24 appearances and scored 9 goals.
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