Martin Moran

Personal information
Date of birth	19 December 1879
Place of birth	Bannockburn, Scotland
Date of death	1948
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)[1]
Position(s)	Outside right
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
–	Benburb
1898	Celtic	1	(0)
1898–1899	Clyde	10	(1)
1899–1900	Sheffield United	7	(0)
1900–1902	Middlesbrough	36	(5)
1902–1904	Millwall Athletic	86	(13)
1904–1905	Heart of Midlothian	24	(1)
1905–1908	Chelsea	63	(6)
1908–1909	Celtic	2	(0)
1909–1910	Hamilton Academical	20	(1)
1910–1911	Albion Rovers	3	(0)
Total		252	(27)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Martin Moran (19 December 1879 – 1948)^[2] was a Scottish footballer who played mainly as an outside right.^[3][4] His many clubs included Celtic (two spells),^[5] Clyde, Heart of Midlothian,^[6] Hamilton Academical^[1] and Albion Rovers in Scotland, and Sheffield United, Middlesbrough,^[7] Millwall Athletic and Chelsea in England.^[8] Small and slight in stature, he was known as "Mighty Midget".

His first spell at Celtic in 1898, aged 20, included appearances in a two-legged friendly billed as the informal 'Championship for Great Britain' against Sheffield United (although the first match took place before either club was officially champion of their nation),^[9] before being moved on in October of that year long with several other fringe players in a cost-cutting measure.^[10] After a good season with Clyde he moved to England with Sheffield United, where he was a back-up squad member as the Blades were runners-up in the 1899–1900 Football League, then played a minor role in Middlesbrough's promotion from the second tier in 1901–02. From 1902 to 1904 he appeared in 99 competitive matches (17 goals) for Millwall Athletic,^[11] reached the FA Cup semi-final in 1902–03 and won the London League and the Southern Professional Charity Cup in 1903–04.^[12] In his season with Hearts back in Scotland he won the minor Rosebery Charity Cup,^[6] and was involved in another English promotion with Chelsea in 1906–07, having been in their first-ever team the previous year. On returning to Celtic in 1908, a decade after his previous time in Glasgow (this time in the role of an experienced reserve), he was a Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup winner.^[10]

Moran played in the Home Scots v Anglo-Scots international trial match of 1905 while contracted to Hearts,^[3][13] but received no further representative honours.