Mackie Bob Image 1 Chelsea 1907

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Dalry, Ayrshire born left back Bob Mackie began his football career with Bannockburn in 1900 before playing for Cowie Wanderers, from where he joined Heart of Midlothian in May 1903, making his Scottish League debut at Bathgate that August. He was loaned to Stenhousemuir later that year and scored once in 19 matches through to May 1905, when he joined newly elected Second Division club Chelsea, making his Football League debut in their inaugural League fixture at Stockport County that September, helping them finish third in the division in their first campaign in which he missed only 3 matches.

However he only played 5 matches as Chelsea won promotion as Second Division runners up the next season, and had played a further 6 top flight matches for The Pensioners at the start of the 1907-08 campaign when he was transferred to Leicester Fosse in November 1907, after 1 goal, scored against Gainsborough Trinity in April 1906, in 47 matches for Chelsea. At Leicester he made 36 appearances over the next two seasons helping them to promotion in 1907-08 as Second Division runners up before they were immediately relegated in 1909, and in the 1909 close season Mackie moved to North Eastern League club Darlington, where he played a season before a return to Scotland in 1910 with Airdrieonians.

He scored twice in 201 matches for The Diamonds over the next six years, moving to Third Lanark in 1916 where he played 47 matches for The Warriors over the next two seasons. He then joined his final known club, Albion Rovers, in 1918, although his record there is uncertain.