Andy Aitken was twenty when he joined Newcastle United and was club first-choice normally at centre-half for the best part of a decade. Moreover, even when he moved on twice he remained from 1901 almost a shoe-in for a decade plus now on the right for the national team's premier games against England as part of not one but two formidable Scottish-style half-back lines - Aitken, Raisbeck and Robertson and then Aitken, Thomson and McWilliam.
He was born in Ayr, on the Newton side of the river in 1875, the son son of a Waggoner, both parents from the two but father dying when Andy was not yet ten and his mother when he was fifteen.
And it may well have been their early passings that caused him to move away young on the back of establishing a first reputation by at seventeen winning the Ayr Junior with local team, Elmbank, then moving up to Ayr Thistle and a season with John Cameron at Ayr Parkhouse, one half of what would become Ayr United. But once away he came back to Scotland only briefly and in the meantime became the fulcrum of the first great Toon team of the 1910s, Aberdeen's Wilfy Low would be that of the second, before following in Cameron's footsteps as a pioneer at Middlesbrough and then Leicester of the player-manager.
Andy Aitken was twenty when he joined Newcastle United and was club first-choice normally at centre-half for the best part of a decade. Moreover, even when he moved on twice he remained from 1901 almost a shoe-in for a decade plus now on the right for the national team's premier games against England as part of not one but two formidable Scottish-style half-back lines - Aitken, Raisbeck and Robertson and then Aitken, Thomson and McWilliam.
He was born in Ayr, on the Newton side of the river in 1875, the son son of a Waggoner, both parents from the two but father dying when Andy was not yet ten and his mother when he was fifteen.
And it may well have been their early passings that caused him to move away young on the back of establishing a first reputation by at seventeen winning the Ayr Junior with local team, Elmbank, then moving up to Ayr Thistle and a season with John Cameron at Ayr Parkhouse, one half of what would become Ayr United. But once away he came back to Scotland only briefly and in the meantime became the fulcrum of the first great Toon team of the 1910s, Aberdeen's Wilfy Low would be that of the second, before following in Cameron's footsteps as a pioneer at Middlesbrough and then Leicester of the player-manager.
Andy Aitken was twenty when he joined Newcastle United and was club first-choice normally at centre-half for the best part of a decade. Moreover, even when he moved on twice he remained from 1901 almost a shoe-in for a decade plus now on the right for the national team's premier games against England as part of not one but two formidable Scottish-style half-back lines - Aitken, Raisbeck and Robertson and then Aitken, Thomson and McWilliam.
He was born in Ayr, on the Newton side of the river in 1875, the son son of a Waggoner, both parents from the two but father dying when Andy was not yet ten and his mother when he was fifteen.
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