Andy McCombie

Although he was brought in Inverness, on The Crown, on Argyle St. just a doors down from Peter McWilliam, Andrew McCombie was actually born in 1876 off the High Street in Dingwall, his father's home village being nearby Conon. He was thus a Ross-shire man, from a family of Gaelic-speakers, and like McWilliam become a stalwart of the great Newcastle of the 1900s. 

And, whilst it all started on the banks of the Pfeffer, taking in, like McWilliam, Inverness Thistle, finishing on Tyneside, McCombie on retirement from playing in 1910 becoming a coach at St. James's Park and dying in 1952 in North Shields, his time Down South actually began on Wearside. He from 1898 had six seasons with over a hundred and fifty starts and a League title at right-back for Sunderland, a club prone to financial irregularities at the time. That is before he and it indeed fell out over money with the result he took the club to the FA, won and then simply transferred himself and his skill twelve miles north.        

On moving to The Toon McCombie was already a Scottish international, two wins, caps he was to add to, alas both defeats, to be awarded four in all. And as a coach he would rise to First Team by 1928, step down two not particularly successful seasons later but, whilst running an off-licence in North Shields, remain on the staff until his retirement fully in 1950. It meant he had in all given forty-five years to team of his adopted home. And that was really the essence of the man; first contribution on the field at Roker, marriage in 1904 in Sunderland. and, after the stoochie, contribution on- and off-field at The Magpies. His bride had been Lillian Creyke. They would have at least two daughters and a son. She would outlive him by eleven years. And that would be it, a life quietly given over to top-flight football and family.

Birth Locator:

3, Leopold Place, Dingwall, Ross-shire

 

Residence Locator(s):

                                                                                             1881 - 107, Castle St., Inverness

1891 - 49, Argyle St., Inverness

1901 - 53, Stansfield St., Monkwearmouth, Sunderland (listed as a piano-tuner)

1911 - 1, Connaught Gardens, Longbenton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 

1952 - 2, Louvaine Ave., North Shields, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

 

Grave Locator:

                                                                          Cremated at Newcastle's West End Crematorium

 

Ground Locator:

Inverness Thistle - Kingsmill Park

 

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