George Pattullo (footballer)

Scottish footballer and manager

George Pattullo
Personal information

Full name	George Simpson Drynan Pattullo
Date of birth	(1888-11-04)4 November 1888
Place of birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death	5 September 1953(1953-09-05) (aged 64)
Place of death	Putney, England
Position(s)	Goalkeeper, Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1910–1911	Barcelona	23	(41)
1912	Barcelona	1	(2)
Total		24	(43)
Managerial career
1930	Club Baleares
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

George Simpson Drynan Pattullo (4 November 1888 – 5 September 1953) was a Scottish football player and manager active primarily in Spain. He has been described as FC Barcelona's "most import and influential British of all time." In addition to being an outstanding football player, a sport to which he owes his career, he was also an outstanding athlete who also performed in other modalities such as hockey, rugby, and tennis.

Biography

Born in Glasgow, Pattulo moved to Barcelona in Spain whilst working as a coal trader, playing rugby, field hockey, tennis and eventually football there. In 1910, having just arrived in Barcelona, he was discovered by Joan Gamper in a friendly match between the British colony of Barcelona and the Universitari, in which Pattullo started as a goalkeeper before coming out to score five goals. Gamper convinced him to join FC Barcelona, where he became a forward.

He made his football debut for FC Barcelona on 24 September 1910, and scored 41 goals in just 23 matches during the 1910–11 season, playing for the club between September 1910 and May 1911, when he had to return to his homeland Scotland on business. However, in March 1912, he returned to Barcelona from Scotland in order to play the quarter-finals of the 1912 Pyrenees Cup on 10 March against city rivals Espanyol, netting two goals to help Barça to a 3–2 win in what was his last match for the club, which went on to win the tournament after beating Stade Bordelais 5–3 in the final. FC Barcelona paid for his hotel, but due to his loyalty to his amateur status, he returned the whole amount to the club. Pattullo remained as an amateur player, and refused to sign for Espanyol. A few days later he returned to Scotland for good only to return in April 1928 to take the honorary kick-off in a La Liga match between Barcelona and Real Oviedo at the Camp de Les Corts.

He left Barcelona before World War I, returning to Great Britain to join the Tyneside Scottish Brigade; he was awarded the Military Cross. He also managed Club Baleares briefly in 1930. He returned to Spain in 1928 thinking the climate would help him with his recovery from being gassed during the War.

References

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Friends of Cathcart presents Footballers of Cathcart: one of Glasgow's Footballing Graveyards, Football Makes Glasgow via YouTube, 11 January 2022
^ "Arise George Pattullo, the Scot who was more deadly than Lionel Messi". The Scotsman. 27 May 2011.
^ "George Simpson Drynan Pattullo stats". players.fcbarcelona.com. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
^ "George Patullo". fcbarcelona.com. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
Iain McMullen (11 November 2011). "BARÇA'S SCOTTISH HERO – The forgotten story of George Pattullo". El Centrocampista. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
"Hace 100 años (mayo 1911)" [100 years ago (May 1911)] (in Spanish). Cihefe. 16 April 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
"1912 Pyrenees Cup". RSSSF. 4 May 2017. Archived from the original on 30 July 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
"George Pattullo, Barcelona's most prolific goalscorer". When Saturday Comes. 8 January 2012. Archived from the original on 23 May 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2012.

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