Jimmy Turnbull


James McLachlan Turnbull was a Scottish footballer who played as a forward, most notably for Manchester United, with whom he won the Football League and the FA Charity Shield in 1908 and the FA Cup in 1909. Turnbull was the first player to net a hat-trick in a Charity Shield game.

Club career

Turnbull played for Scottish clubs East Stirlingshire, Dundee, Falkirk and Rangers, before moving to England to sign for Preston North End and later the now dissolved Leyton. In May 1907 he was bought by Manchester United, where he won a league title, an FA Cup and the Charity Shield. He scored a total of 45 goals in 78 games for the club, with his best season being 1908–09, in which he scored 22 times in 28 appearances in all competitions. He was sold to Bradford Park Avenue in September 1910, and later played for Chelsea.
Turnbull played in the annual Home Scots v Anglo-Scots international trial match in 1911, but did not receive any other representative honours.

Honours

;Manchester United