Gerry McAloon

Gerald Padua McAloon (13 September 1916 – 13 April 1987) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Brentford and Wolverhampton Wanderers. He later played for Celtic and in Northern Ireland.

Career Early years An inside forward, McAloon began his career with his hometown Glasgow junior club St Francis in 1933. He departed the following year.

Brentford McAloon moved to England to sign for Second Division club Brentford in June 1934. McAloon scored his first goal for the club in the following game (a 6–1 win over Grimsby Town) and he made a significant impact in the Bees' end-of-season run in, scoring five goals in six games to help the club to a second successive sixth-place finish. Brentford's league form was poor during the 1938–39 season and McAloon made 16 appearances, scoring four goals, before departing the club in March 1939. McAloon departed Molineux in December 1945, after the cessation of hostilities. He won the Lanarkshire Cup with Hamilton in 1939, scoring in a 5–1 victory over future club Airdrieonians in the final. He had previously guested for the club during the Second World War. McAloon failed to fully settle at the struggling club, He made just two appearances in the 1947–48 season, at the end of which the club withdrew from the Irish League.

Personal life After retiring as a footballer, McAloon worked as a janitor at Bridgeton School in Calton.

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Honours Hamilton Academical Lanarkshire Cup: 1939–40