Willie Ormond

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Willie Ormond
Personal information
Full name	William Esplin Ormond
Date of birth	February 23, 1927
Place of birth	Falkirk, Scotland
Date of death	May 4, 1984 (aged 57)
Place of death	unknown,
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position	Left winger
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1946 1946–1961 1961-1962	Stenhousemuir Hibernian Falkirk	335 (147) 027 00(4)
National team
1954–1959	Scotland	006 00(2)
Teams managed
1967-1973 1973-1977 1977-1980 1980	St Johnstone Scotland Hearts Hibernian
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

William 'Willie' Esplin Ormond OBE (February 23, 1927 - May 4, 1984) was a Scottish football player and manager.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Managerial career 3 Trivia 4 External link

[edit] Playing career

Born in Falkirk, Ormond signed for Hibernian in November 1946 from Stenhousemuir. An outside-left, he played for Hibs over a fifteen year period. He was one of the "Famous Five", the Hibs forward line during the 1950s, one of the strongest group of players ever in Scottish football outside the "Old Firm" of Celtic and Rangers. (The others were Bobby Johnstone, Lawrie Reilly, Gordon Smith and Eddie Turnbull). They all scored over 100 goals for the club, he scored a total 193. During his playing career, he won the Scottish League Championship three times with Hibernian and won six Scotland caps. He was the last member of the Five to leave Hibs, signing for hometown Falkirk in 1961.

[edit] Managerial career

After he retired from playing, Ormond became assistant trainer at Falkirk. In 1967, he was appointed as manager of St. Johnstone. He led the club to the 1969 League Cup final and third in the League one year, ahead of Rangers, taking them into Europe for the first time, a serious achievement for a Scottish club outside the major cities.

When the Scottish Football Association wanted someone capable of bringing stability to the job of Scotland manager after Tommy Docherty left, Ormond was a natural choice and he was appointed in 1973. He was blessed with a talented squad and steered them to the 1974 World Cup Finals in West Germany. Although Scotland didn't lose any of their games and came back as the only unbeaten team in the tournament, they were eliminated after the first round. This was actually the best ever performance by a Scotland team in a World Cup.

Later, minor breaches of player discipline accumulated and after four years the SFA came to believe it wanted a more forceful and charismatic figure as manager. In May 1977 he resigned and was appointed as manager of Hearts - the arch rivals of his old team, Hibs. Many Hearts fans at the time were less than happy given Ormond's background but he soon won them over before being sacked in 1980, whereupon he moved to Hibernian as assistant to his old Famous Five colleague Eddie Turnbull. When Turnbull resigned, Ormond took over but his health was not good and forced him to retire soon after.

[edit] Trivia

• The South Stand at McDiarmid Park, St. Johnstone's ground since 1989, is named in his honour.
• His brother Gibby also played League football, for semi-professional Cowdenbeath in the mid 1960s.

[edit] External link

• Profile of Willie Ormond

Preceded by Bobby Brown	St Johnstone Manager 1967-1973	Succeeded by Jackie Stewart
Preceded by Tommy Docherty	Scotland national football team manager 1973-1977	Succeeded by Ally McLeod
Preceded by John Haggart	Heart of Midlothian Manager 1977-1980	Succeeded by Bobby Moncur
Preceded by Eddie Turnbull	Hibernian Manager 1980	Succeeded by Bertie Auld

	Scotland squad - 1954 FIFA World Cup
1 Martin | 2 Cunningham | 3 Aird | 4 Evans | 5 Docherty | 6 Davidson | 7 Cowie | 8 Mackenzie | 9 Hamilton | 10 Brown | 11 Machan | 12 Fernie | 13 Ormond | 14 Anderson | 15 Johnstone | 16 Henderson | 17 Mathers | 18 Wilson | 19 Binning | 20 Combe | 21 Copland | 22 McMillan | Coach: Beattie

	Scotland squad - 1974 FIFA World Cup
1 Harvey | 2 Jardine | 3 McGrain | 4 Bremner | 5 Holton | 6 Blackley | 7 Johnstone | 8 Dalglish | 9 Jordan | 10 Hay | 11 Lorimer | 12 Allan | 13 Stewart | 14 Buchan | 15 Cormack | 16 Donachie | 17 Ford | 18 Hutchison | 19 Law | 20 Morgan | 21 McQueen | 22 Schaedler | Coach: Ormond

Persondata
NAME	Ormond, Willie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Scottish footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 23, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Falkirk, Scotland
DATE OF DEATH	May 4, 1984)
PLACE OF DEATH