Jimmy Mulvaney

James Mulvaney Date of Birth: Apr 27, 1921

Well built full-back Jim joined Dumbarton in 1941 but also appeared for Wolves, Liverpool, Burnley and York during the war years so a move to Luton in June 1948 did not come as a great culture shock.

Jim had a baptism of fire in an FA Cup replay at Leicester in 1949 when the Hatters went down 3-5 but managed to keep his place in the League team for a while as replacement for the injured Jim Wilson.

When Wilson had regained his fitness, Jim returned to the reserves but re-surfaced as an emergency centre-forward later on that season and scored twice in a 6-0 mauling of Lincoln at Kenilworth Road!

Jim made three more first team appearances at centre-forward the following campaign with little success, before moving to Brighton as part of the deal that brought Jack Whent to Kenilworth Road.

Jim subsequently turned out for Bradford City, Bath and Halifax and passed away in 1993.