Duncan McKenzie
Duncan McKenzie ( born June 10, 1950 in Grimsby ) is a former English footballer.
Playing career
Nottingham Forest
Duncan McKenzie made his debut in the Football League First Division 1969/70 for Nottingham Forest in the English Premier League. In order to gain match practice, he moved in March 1970 to the third division side Mansfield Town, where he obtained three goals in ten league games. After his return to Nottingham, he played in the 1970/71 season eight league games and scored two goals. His breakthrough as a regular player succeeded McKenzie (33 games / 7 goals) in the First Division 1971/72. For Forest, the season was less successful, the team had lost in recent years with Henry Newton, Joe Baker, Terry Hennessey and Ian Storey -Moore many established players and dismounted after 15 years from the First Division.
In the Second Division, he claimed his place before he again joined on loan in February 1973 to Manfield Town. After his return he succeeded in the 1973/74 season, the best performance of his playing career when he scored 26 goals in 41 second-division games and was selected for the PFA Team of the Year of the Second Division. With this performance, McKenzie also made higher class clubs attention and so he left in August 1974 Nottingham Forest.
Leeds United
His new team was the reigning English champions Leeds United, who had lost after the title in the First Division in 1973/74 his longtime coach Don Revie to the English national team. The committed under great media attention successor Brian Clough took next to McKenzie with John McGovern and John O'Hare two other players to change the face of the team. Clough was sacked after just 44 turbulent days and replaced by Jimmy Armfield. Duncan McKenzie (27 Spiele/11 goals) also came under new coach regularly in the season 1974/75 for use, but finished only ninth in the league. Successful, the club played in the European Cup of Champions 1974/75, as United after a semi-final victory over FC Barcelona reached the final in Paris. There Leeds defeated McKenzie but without the German champions Bayern Munich 0-2. In the Football League First Division 1975/76 showed Duncan McKenzie with 16 goals in 39 games his class and reached Leeds fifth place in the standings.
RSC Anderlecht FC and Everton
In the summer of 1976 he moved to the top Belgian club RSC Anderlecht, who had won the title in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1975/76 in the preseason. After only half a year in Belgium, however, McKenzie decided on a return to England and joined in December 1976 for £ 200,000 to Everton. For the club from Liverpool, he scored 5 goals in 20 games in the First Division 1976/77 and finished the season in 9th place much better acted the club in the Football League First Division 1977/78 with a third place in the table. McKenzie's former club Nottingham Forest was able to secure this season as the champion climber.
Chelsea and Blackburn Rovers
After the start of the 1978/79 season, a further change of club for £ 165,000 came to Chelsea. Already in his first game on September 9, 1978 against Coventry City he succeeded in the 3-2 win his first goal. The season, however, should prove to be very successful and already before the descent of Chelsea from the Football League First Division 1978/79 he moved in March 1979 to Blackburn Rovers. With the Rovers he rose in the 1979/80 season won promotion to the Second Division.