Jock Wallace
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John Martin Bokas Wallace | ||
| Date of birth | 6 September 1935 | ||
| Place of birth | Wallyford, Scotland | ||
| Date of death | 24 July 1996 (aged 60) | ||
| Place of death | Basingstoke, England | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1952–1953 | Workington | 6 | (0) |
| 1953–1954 | Ashton United | 3 | (0) |
| 1954–1958 | Berwick Rangers | 14 | (0) |
| 1958–1960 | Airdrieonians | 54 | (0) |
| 1960–1962 | West Bromwich Albion | 69 | (0) |
| 1962–1964 | Bedford Town | 79 | (0) |
| 1964–1966 | Hereford United | ||
| 1966–1969 | Berwick Rangers | 75 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1966–1969 | Berwick Rangers | ||
| 1972–1978 | Rangers | ||
| 1978–1982 | Leicester City | ||
| 1982–1983 | Motherwell | ||
| 1983–1986 | Rangers | ||
| 1986–1987 | Sevilla | ||
| 1989 | Colchester United | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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John Martin Bokas "Jock" Wallace (6 September 1935 – 24 July 1996) was a professional Scottish football player and manager. His father, Jock Wallace, Sr., was a goalkeeper for Raith Rovers, Blackpool and Derby County.
Wallace has the unique distinction of being the only player ever to play in the English, Welsh and Scottish Cups in the same season. This was set during the 1966–67 season where he played in the FA Cup and Welsh Cup for Hereford United, and in the Scottish Cup when he moved to Berwick Rangers.
Wallyford-born Wallace, as manager of Rangers over two spells in the 1970s and 1980s, was to become one of Scottish football's best-known and most successful coaches.
Wallace's playing career began inauspiciously. A goalkeeper, Wallace was freed by his first club, Blackpool, but rekindled his career by signing for Workington in 1952, dovetailing football with work in the local pit. National Service with the King's Own Scottish Borderers afforded Wallace the opportunity of signing for the local club, Berwick Rangers. After character-defining military service in Northern Ireland and – famously – the jungles of Malaya, Wallace's playing career extended to Airdrieonians, West Bromwich Albion, non-league Bedford Town and Hereford United.
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