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| John McKenna |
 John McKenna was born on Wednesday, 4th January, 1882, in Liverpool. The forward was possibly a guest player for George Easton's Thistle in April, 1911, having most recently played with Chester. Aged 29, he made his only appearance on Tuesday, 25th April, 1911, in a 3-0 defeat away to Celtic in a Benefit match. There were no goals for McKenna in his one-off appearance for Thistle. His known club-list included Liverpool, Old Xaverians, Ashton Town, Chester and Partick Thistle. John died in the first quarter of 1952, in Liverpool, aged 70. *
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 This outside right first signed for Liverpool in October, 1905, although his appearances were limited to reserve team football. As LFH tells us, his one and only appearance for Liverpool's first team came as a replacement for the injured regular outside-right Arthur Goddard when Liverpool faced Birmingham City in a First Division fixture at Anfield on 26 January 1907. "McKenna gave great satisfaction whenever he came into possession and his greyhound like tactics usually proved too difficult for either Cornan or Kearns to check easily" said the Liverpool Echo. The Reds won 2-0 with goals from Jack Parkinson and Bill McPherson. Goddard's return in the next game signalled the end of McKenna's short Liverpool career. The DR report (26.04.1911) of his one appearance at Thistle noted: "McKenna, who is said to hail from Liverpool, made a very fair show on the right, his centring being in advance of the other extreme forward." On account of his service during WWI, John is included in our feature piece, The Partick Thistle returned →. |
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