Sandy Mutch

Sandy Mutch

Personal information
Full name	Alexander Mutch
Date of birth	(1884-12-09)9 December 1884
Place of birth	Inverurie, Scotland
Date of death
Place of death	Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1907–1910	Aberdeen	75	(0)
1910–1922	Huddersfield Town	229	(0)
1922–1924	Newcastle United	36	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alexander "Sandy" Mutch (9 December 1884 – 16 September 1967) was a Scottish football goalkeeper.

Playing career

Mutch was born in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the sixth of twelve children of Alexander Mutch (1851–1938) and Ann Milne Birse (1856–1933). He began his football career with Aberdeen before playing for Huddersfield Town between 1910 and 1922, winning the FA Cup once and helping Huddersfield into the Football League First Division in 1920. While playing for Huddersfield, he played in two FA Cup Finals: 1920 where they lost 1–0 to Aston Villa after extra time, and in the 1922 Cup Final which they won 1–0 against Preston North End.

His Newcastle United debut was on 26 Aug 1922 against Everton, a home match. In 1924 he was in the team for the FA Cup Final again, (his third FA Cup Final in four years), but shortly before Newcastle's 2-0 victory over Aston Villa he suffered a bad knee injury which eventually led to his retirement as a player.

Later career

He then became the coach for the first team and then finally a groundsman at the club he loved so much until he left due to poor health.

Mutch died of kidney failure in 1967.

Honours

Huddersfield Town

• Football League Second Division runners-up: 1919–20
• FA Cup winners: 1922
• FA Cup finalists: 1920

External links

• Newcastle United profile