John MacKenzie

John Archie MacKenzie (also spelled McKenzie; 4 September 1925 – 5 July 2017) was a Scottish footballer who spent most of his career with Partick Thistle, where he was known as the "Firhill Flyer".

Career Club An outside right, he joined Partick Thistle from Petershill in 1944 and played most of the next 16 years with the Maryhill club. He played for Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic during the 1947-48 season whilst on military service in Dorset but became a first-team regular upon his return to Partick Thistle. and Derry City, where he won his only medal in the 1964 Irish Cup. He was briefly a trainer with Third Lanark, joining in January 1967, but the club folded later that year.

Personal life MacKenzie is, to date, the only native Gaelic-speaker to have played for Scotland, although others may have had knowledge of the language (Peter Campbell and Moses McNeil, who founded Rangers, and Andy McCombie). MacKenzie also represented the Scottish League.

He died in July 2017, aged 91.