Malcolm McVean
Birthdate: 7 March 1871
Birthplace: Jamestown, Scotland
Other clubs: Vale of Leven, Third Lanark (1889-92), Burnley (1897), Dundee (1897-98), Bedminster (1898-99)
Bought from: Third Lanark
Signed for LFC: N/A, July 1892
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Liverpool debut: 03.09.1892
Last appearance: 04.03.1897
Debut goal: 03.09.1892
Last goal: 13.02.1897
Contract expiry: 19.03.1897
Win ratio: 59.52% W: 75 D: 23 L: 28
Games/goals ratio: 2.93
Total games/goals opposite LFC: 1 / 0
LFC league games/goals: 89 / 26
Total LFC games/goals: 126 / 43
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Player profile
McVean holds the honour of scoring Liverpool's first-ever goal in League football during the second half of their second division fixture at Middlesbrough Ironopolis on 2 September 1893. After scoring ten goals in 21 games in the Lancashire league McVean scored nine times in the club's inaugural Football League season but he only managed five the following year as the team struggled to cope with a higher standard of football in the First Division. The inside-right, who was said to be a "good shot and rare dodger," remained at Anfield for a further two years, during which he won another second division championship medal in 1896 and helped his side establish itself in the First Division. After five years at Liverpool the 26-year-old left for first division Burnley in March 1897 along with teammate Jimmy Ross but unfortunately for them Burnley got relegated in the spring. McVean had begun an apprenticeship in Scotland as a shipyard boilermaker when Liverpool signed him from Third Lanark and when he hung up his boots he went back to work in the shipyards. McVean died in Bonhill, Alexandra in June 1907, only 36 years of age. The Dundee Courier reported: "McVean was of a sociable disposition, and being gifted with a rare fund of dry humour, was a most interesting companion."