Alex Lambie

Alexander Lambie (15 April 1897 – 26 February 1963) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre half.^[4]

Although he began his career with Ayrshire teams including Kilmarnock, Lambie featured primarily for Glasgow club Partick Thistle where he spent a decade (all in the top division), making 325 appearances for the Jags in all competitions and scoring 17 goals,^[5] having been brought in during 1921 as a replacement for Willie Hamilton, the regular of the past decade who had died of tuberculosis.^[6]

He played in the 1930 Scottish Cup Final which Partick lost to Rangers after a replay,^[7] but did manage to claim winner's medals in the Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup in 1927^[8] and the one-off Glasgow Dental Hospital Cup in 1928, both against the same opponents.^[9]

After he moved on from Partick Thistle in 1931, a spell at Chester lasting just a few weeks was followed by three seasons as a regular at Swindon Town,^[10] and then further brief period in Wales with Lovell's Athletic and Ireland with Distillery before retiring.^[3]

While playing for Partick Thistle, Lambie was selected once for the Scottish Football League XI against the English Football League XI in 1928,^[1] and took part in what proved to be the last Home Scots v Anglo-Scots international trial match in the same year,^[11] although this did not lead to a full cap for Scotland. He also played in two editions of the Glasgow Football Association's annual challenge match against Sheffield.^[12][4]

His nephews^[a] Jim, Jock and Tom Brown were all footballers, and their sons also became sportsmen.^[13]