Paul McKinnon
Paul McKinnon ( born August 1, 1958) is a former Scottish footballer. The striker ran on in his career in England, Sweden and Hong Kong.
Career
McKinnon began his career in the English non -League football with Sutton United, who had him committed from the offspring of Woking FC 1977. As the summer of 1980 as the successor to Keith Blunt Bob Houghton took over as coach of the Swedish club Malmö FF players followed him to Scania and was together with the also exchanged from England Tim Parkin the first foreign professional of the club. By the end of the season in 1980, he ran in six games in the Allsvenskan and contributed two goals this season in the runner-up behind Östers IF. As the reigning Cup holders, the club was also qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1980/81, with the team to Robert Prytz, Ingemar Erlandsson and Thomas Sjöberg he failed but the Portuguese representative Benfica in the second round. In the first half of the season the following season he came to eleven stakes, after five more goals in the highest Swedish league, he returned after a year in the summer of 1981 back to Sutton United.
Later McKinnon moved to FC Ryoden to Hong Kong, but returned again to England. In early 1986, he moved again to Sweden and joined the third division Tegs SK. For the club, he scored 16 goals during the season in 18 games. As Table 3 Norra Norrland Second Division, the club missed although the promotion round to the second league, but survived a league reform on the third level of play. The striker had, however, produced by the personal success in his native country attention, Blackburn Rovers took him into northern English Lancashire after the season in the fall. In the second division, he did not sit through, only five matches he played, until the spring of 1987. Thereupon he wanted to return to Tegs SK, but the club had now three other foreign players under contract. Rolf Zetterlund steered him in the second Swedish league for Örebro SK. In the following two years, he scored eleven goals in 45 games for the central Swedish Club. In the summer of 1988, he was with the team to Sven and Christer Dahlkvist Fursth in the final of the Swedish National Cup in the 1-3 defeat against IFK Norrköping he scored the consolation goal. Despite the rise in the Allsvenskan at the end of the 1988 he left the club and returned in January 1989 again back to Sutton United. In 1991, he joined the Non- League club Slough Town FC in the season 1993/94 he returned once more to Sutton back, before he ended his active career. With 279 goals for the club he's leading scorer.