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Malcolm Ian MacDonald (born 7 January 1950) is a former English professional footballer, Nicknamed Supermac, he was a strong, powerfully built striker who was famed as a prolific goalscorer. He played for Fulham, Luton Town, Newcastle United, Arsenal and England. MacDonald is Newcastle United's fifth highest goalscorer off all-time. ==Football career== Born in Fulham, London, MacDonald started his career as a full back before switching to centre forward. After playing for non-league side Tonbridge Angels, Bobby Robson paid £1,000 to sign him for Fulham in 1968 just after their relegation from the Football League First Division. A year later he moved to Luton Town. At Luton he scored 49 times in 88 matches, which caught the eye of Newcastle United manager Joe Harvey, who signed him for £180,000 in the summer of 1971. At Newcastle, his hard work and effort in matches meant he quickly became a firm favourite with the fans. He made an immediate impact, scoring a hat-trick on his home debut against Liverpool, and he was the club's top scorer for five seasons in a row. While at Newcastle, he made his debut for England (against Wales). On 16 April 1975, in a European Championship qualifier for England against Cyprus he scored all five goals in a 5–0 victory. Although three pre-war players (Steve Bloomer, Vivian Woodward and Willie Hall) had previously scored five for England, MacDonald was the first, and remains the only, player to do so in a competitive international. His feat spawned the newspaper headline "SuperMac 5, Cyprus 0". In total he played 14 times for his country, scoring six times (the only other game he scored in being a 2–0 win over then World Champions West Germany). MacDonald left Newcastle for Arsenal in 1976, for the unusual fee of £333,333.34, (confirmed by MacDonald himself on BBC Radio 5 Live on 31 August 2013) and played two full seasons (being the club's top scorer in both), but suffered a knee injury in a League Cup match against Rotherham at the start of the 1978–79 season, from which he was unable to completely recover. After having spent a couple of months in Sweden with Djurgårdens IF he announced his retirement from playing at the premature age of 29 in August 1979. He never won a major honour but was on the losing side in two FA Cup finals and a League Cup final, two for Newcastle and one for Arsenal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Malcolm Macdonald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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