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Doug Baillie

Doug Baillie

Scottish footballer and journalist (1937–2022)

Douglas Rae Daw Collier Baillie (27 January 1937 – 19 February 2022) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre-half in the Scottish Football League and the Football League. He was a backup squad member at Rangers during three of the club's title-winning seasons in the early 1960s, playing a handful of matches in each.[3] He also made over 100 league appearances for both Airdrieonians and Falkirk.

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After retiring as a player, Baillie became a football journalist, working for The Sunday Post.[4] Baillie died on 19 February 2022, at the age of 85.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Doug Baillie". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
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    Greatest XI - 4. Centre Back, Airdrieonians FC, 20 February 2016
  3. [3]
    (Rangers player) Baillie, Doug, FitbaStats
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    Shaw, Phil (8 November 1999). "Brown back at Wembley with a mission". The Independent. London. Retrieved 13 February 2011. Brown, by then playing for Falkirk, almost missed the party. "Myself and two team-mates - Doug Baillie, who's now a reporter for the Sunday Post, and John Lambie, who manages Partick Thistle - went for lunch in the West End. The sweet was so long coming that the other two fled after the main course to get the tube to Wembley."
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    "Former Rangers and Airdrie star dies after short illness". Daily Record. 19 February 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2022.


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