Alexander "Sandy" McGinn was a Scottish professional footballer. He spent six years at Blackpool

Blackpool F.C.

Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...

 in the 1920s, making over 100 Football League appearances for the club. He also played for Bradford City

Bradford City A.F.C.

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 and Halifax Town

Halifax Town A.F.C.

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Blackpool

New Cumnock

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-McGinn made his debut for Bill Norman

Bill Norman (football manager)

William "Bill" Norman was an English football manager.Between 1918 and 1923, he was in charge of Blackpool, who became one of a growing number of clubs to appoint a full-time manager. Before that point, the team selection had been the responsibility of a committee comprising directors, the captain,...

's Blackpool midway through the 1919–20 season, in a goalless draw at Bristol City

Bristol City F.C.

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 on 20 December. He went on to make a further nineteen league appearances that season, scoring one goal (in a 3–0 victory at Wolves

Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.

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 on 6 March).

In 1920–21, McGinn made 24 league appearances. He scored one goal, in the FA Cup

FA Cup

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 in Blackpool's first-round replay victory at home to Darlington

Darlington F.C.

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McGinn started 34 of Blackpool's 42 league games in 1921–22. He scored one goal, the first in a 2–0 win against Bristol City at Bloomfield Road

Bloomfield Road

Bloomfield Road is an all-seater football stadium in the English town of Blackpool, Lancashire. It has been the permanent home of Blackpool F.C. since 1901 and is named after the road on which the stadium's main entrance used to stand. The stadium has been in a process of redevelopment since 2000...

 on 25 March.

36 league starts followed in 1922–23, before a spell out of the line-up in 1923–24 under Blackpool's new manager Frank Buckley

Frank Buckley (footballer)

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. The Major

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 selected him in seventeen of their final nineteen games of the league season, however, as well as in the club's two FA Cup ties in the New Year.

McGinn was out of favour again in 1924–25, managing just one league appearance. That appearance, at Coventry City

Coventry City F.C.

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on 9 March, was his final one for Blackpool.