Ernie Hannigan

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Ernie Hannigan
Personal information
Full name Ernest Hannigan[1]
Date of birth (1943-01-23)23 January 1943
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death 21 May 2015(2015-05-21) (aged 72)
Place of death Perth, Australia
Position(s)
Outside right
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1961–1964 Queen of the South 99 (6)
1964–1967 Preston North End 98 (28)
1967–1969 Coventry City 47 (6)
1969 Torquay United 2 (0)
1970–1971 Morton 32 (6)
1971
New York Cosmos
 10 (0)
1972 New Jersey Brewers
Queen of the South 13 (0)
Raith Rovers 5 (2)
Stirling City
Morley Windmills
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ernest Hannigan (23 January 1943 – 21 May 2015) was a Scottish

Preston North End
.

Career

Queen of the South

Ernie Hannigan kicked off his professional career joining

Scottish First Division (then Scotland's top flight).[2][6] Also still at Queens at this time was Jim Patterson (251 strikes for the club make Jim Patterson the all time goals king of Queens).[7]

Hannigan's two remaining seasons at Queens were spent playing top division football. In this spell Queens recorded a 1-0 league victory away to Celtic. Teammate Iain McChesney later in an interview reflecting on his 20 years at Queens named Hannigan as being amongst the best player he played beside.[8]

Ernie Hannigan stayed with Queens at Palmerston Park making 99 league appearances scoring 6 league goals until he was 20 when Preston signed him for £15,000 in June 1964.[6] He would return to the club for a short spell in 1972 to make a further 13 league appearances. In total he would make 147 appearances scoring 8 goals for Queens.

Preston North End

Hannigan's debut was in the fourth match of the season in a 1–1 draw against

Cardiff City at Deepdale on 31 August 1964. But appearances for Hannigan were limited in his first season in England, making just 11 first team appearances, as the number seven shirt was held for the remainder of the season by Dave Wilson, the 1964/65 season was the last before substitutes were allowed in the game.[6]

The following season saw Ernie Hannigan make 29 league appearances and scored his first goal in a 5–2 defeat at

Manchester United in a replay.[6]

Ernie Hannigan ended the season in great form scoring six of his eleven league goals in the last four matches of the season, culminating in a hat-trick on the last day of the season when Cardiff were beaten 9–0 at Deepdale.[6]

The 1966/67 season saw Ernie Hannigan as an ever-present and finished with 12 goals one behind leading scorer Alex Dawson. Hannigan scored twice in a match on two occasions in a win over

Northampton Town.[6]

The following season saw Ernie Hannigan again score twice in a match on two occasions in a 3–1 victory at

Norwich City and a 3–0 home win against Cardiff . His last appearance for PNE was on 4 November 1967 in a 1–1 home draw against. Hannigan had scored 28 goals from 98 appearances for Preston.[6]

Coventry City & Torquay United

Hannigan joined Coventry City, who was playing in their first season in the top division, in November 1967 for a fee of £55,000. It had been a difficult start for Coventry as

Leicester City.[6]

Of manager Noel Cantwell, Hannigan later said: "Cantwell was a nice guy but I used to argue with him all the time about the way he wanted me to play. I was a winger who wanted to take players on, but he wanted my first touch to be a cross into the box to aim for Tony Hateley and Neil Martin who were our two big centre-forwards."[4]

Hannigan joined

Bournemouth,[9]
that month before returning to Coventry.

Later career

On leaving Coventry in 1970, Hannigan returned to Scotland with

New York Cosmos in 1971.[6] In Hannigan's second spell at Queen of the South in 1972 he would play his last game for the club away to Montrose on 23 September 1972., having spent the summer playing for the New Jersey Brewers. His last spell in the UK was with Raith Rovers
where he found the net twice in five league games.

He then spent one season with Eastern Hong Kong before emigrating to

Western Australian State in May 1974 against Scottish side Aberdeen[6] and later played in the side that won the Mara Halim Cup, an international tournament in Indonesia
. In 1979, he moved to Stirling Macedonia, again as player-coach, and in 1982 joined Spearwood Dalmatinacs, retiring from playing in 1983. In 1985, he was appointed coach of Galeb, a position he held until 1986, and later coached Yugal from 1991 to 1992

Hannigan gained the reputation as one of the best outside-right's Western Australian fans had seen. He was inducted into the Western Australian Hall of Fame when the Hall of Fame Committee selected the top one hundred players over the past Century. Hannigan was one of the 28 1970's players selected in the 'Century of Champions' when the ceremony took place in July 2004.[6]

Later life

Hannigan lived in Perth and owned an industrial cleaning business. His business partner was the late

1970 Scottish Cup Final against Celtic. In 2011 Hannigan took the coach's role at amateur side Perth Celtic in their first season; he guided them to the championship and promotion to division 2. The club was formed by the West Australian Celtic supporters club.[6]
Hannigan had been battling cancer[10] and died at the age of 72 on 21 May 2015[11]

References

  1. ISBN 1-85291-585-4
    .
  2. ^ a b c d Neil Martin profile on "Queens Legends" on the official Queen of the South FC website Archived 26 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Club History" on the official Queen of the South website Archived 13 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b c Big Interview: Ernie Hannigan - Lancashire Evening Post
  5. ^ George Farm profile on "Queens Legends" on the official Queen of the South FC website Archived 26 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "A Sky Blue and a White - Preston North End FC - WHITES". Archived from the original on 8 February 2008. Retrieved 19 April 2008.
  7. ^ Jim Patterson profile on "Queens Legends" on the official Queen of the South FC website Archived 26 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Iain McChesney profile on "Queens Legends" on the official Queen of the South FC website Archived 26 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ISBN 1-899468-09-9
    .
  10. ^ "Ernie Hannigan Passes Away - News - Preston North End".
  11. ^ "Winger Ernie passes away - Lancashire Evening Post". www.lep.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 May 2015.

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