Dave Halliday

David Halliday (11 December 1901 – 5 January 1970) was a Scottish football player and manager. He achieved numerous distinctions and high rankings as a prolific goal-scoring forward with six senior clubs; St Mirren, Dundee, Sunderland, Arsenal, Manchester City and Clapton Orient. He bookended his senior career playing at then non-league Queen of the South and Yeovil and Petters United. Halliday's three goals in the FA Cup proper for Yeovil give him a career total of 368 senior goals. From being player-manager at Yeovil, he went on to win trophies managing Aberdeen and Leicester City. Halliday scored 90 goals in 126 league appearances for the Dees, with another 13 goals from 21 Scottish Cup games in four seasons. In end-of-season tours with Dundee, Halliday scored doubles against each of Athletic Bilbao, Real Madrid, Valencia CF and FC Barcelona.

Halliday has a Sunderland goals to games ratio of 0.94, the highest of any striker in the club's history. He struck 165 goals in 175 games for the Black Cats comprising 156 league goals from 166 games and nine in nine FA Cup outings. He scored 12 league hat-tricks, more than any other player. He scored 4 goals in a game on three occasions. He is also Sunderland's third highest goalscorer of all time. His 165 Sunderland goals were all in his first 168 games at Roker Park before scoring in none of his last seven games.

Manchester City Halliday signed for Manchester City in November 1930, a year after joining Arsenal, for a fee of £5,700.

Leicester City After leaving Aberdeen in 1955 Halliday spent three years at the helm of Leicester City, guiding them to the 1956–57 Second Division title. Although Halliday left in 1958, the 1957 promotion was the beginning of Leicester's longest run to date in the England's top division, 12 seasons.

Dundee Scottish Cup runner-up: 1924–25 Forfarshire Cup: 1922–23, 1924–25

Manager Yeovil and Petters Utd Southern League Cup runner-up: 1937–38 Somerset Professional Cup runner-up: 1936–37

Aberdeen Scottish Football League: 1954–55 Scottish Cup: 1946–47; runner-up: 1952–53, 1953–54 Scottish League Cup: runner-up 1946–47 Southern League Cup: 1945–46

Leicester City Football League Second Division: 1956–57

Individual Scottish Top Division Golden Boot: 1924 English Top Division Golden Boot: 1929 Most recent of only two players to have been outright top scorer in both the Scottish and English top divisions