George Pattullo (footballer)

George Simpson Drynan Pattullo (4 November 1888 – 5 September 1953)[4] 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."[3]

George Pattullo
Personal information
Full name George Simpson Drynan Pattullo[1]
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)[2]
Place of death Putney, England[3]
Position(s) Goalkeeper, Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1910–1911 Barcelona 41 (20)
1912 Barcelona 1 (2)
Total 42 (22)
Managerial career
1930 Club Baleares
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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.[1] He made his football debut for Barcelona in September 1910, and scored 20 goals in 41 matches during the 1910–11 season,[5] playing for the club between September 1910 and May 1911, when he had to return to Scotland on business, however, in 1912, he was called up 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.[1][6]

Pattullo remained as an amateur player, and refused to sign for Espanyol.[7] He originally played as a goalkeeper, but later converted to a forward.[1]

He left Barcelona before World War I, returning to Great Britain to join the Tyneside Scottish Brigade; he was awarded the Military Cross.[3] He also managed Club Baleares briefly in 1930.[3] He returned to Spain in 1928 thinking the climate would help him with his recovery from being gassed during the War.[1]

References
  1. "Patullo, G". scotlandswar.co.uk.
  2. Friends of Cathcart presents Footballers of Cathcart: one of Glasgow's Footballing Graveyards, Football Makes Glasgow via YouTube, 11 January 2022
  3. "Arise George Pattullo, the Scot who was more deadly than Lionel Messi". The Scotsman. 27 May 2011.
  4. MANEL TOMÀS. "One hundred years since George Patullo's feat". fcbarcelona.com. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  5. Iain McMullen (11 November 2011). "BARÇA'S SCOTTISH HERO – The forgotten story of George Pattullo". El Centrocampista. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  6. "1912 Pyrenees Cup". RSSSF. 4 May 2017. Archived from the original on 30 July 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  7. "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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