Andy Paton


Andrew Paton was a Scottish football player and manager.
A Centre half, Paton played primarily for Motherwell, with a short spell at Hamilton Academical late in his career, and he then managed Hamilton for nine years. He won the Scottish Cup, Scottish League Cup and Scottish Division Two with Motherwell – having joined as a teenager from the Junior level during World War II – and in 2006 was voted the club's 'greatest ever player'.
He appeared three times for Scotland; his debut came in January 1946 against Belgium and his second and third appearances were made on a summer 1952 tour of Scandinavia. At the time of his death in 2014, he was the oldest surviving Scotland international.