Quote Originally Posted by cardiff55 View Post
I remember that game too, he came off the bench and scored to put us 2-1 up if I recall correctly. Frankie Prince equalised fir Bristol Rovers and that was that, we were going down. I think half the squad was released that summer. McClelland cost £5000 from Portadown and went on a free after just one start and 3 sub appearences. After his spell at Bangor he played for Leeds too and won loads of caps for Northern Ireland. He'd filled out a bit by then and was a good centre half but with us he was a young, very lean centre forward.
I'd seen the name mentioned a few times when he was playing for Bangor and assumed it was the player who had been with us, but then when he came back into league football (I think with Mansfield, but I may be wrong), he looked twice as powerful as the John McClelland who had played for us so I thought it must be someone else with the same name for a while.