McIntosh Alex Image 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 1938

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Dunfermline, Fife born inside right Alex McIntosh began his senior football career with St Mirren in 1934 but didn’t play for their first team and also played for Hearts of Beath in 1935 before a move to English football with Kent League club Folkestone in 1936. From there he was signed by First Division club Wolverhampton Wanderers in October 1937, making his Football League debut at Leeds United the same month, helping Wolves to finish runners up in the League Championship in both 1938 and 1939, as well as scoring twice in their 1939 FA Cup run that saw them go all the way to Wembley only to be beaten in the Final by Portsmouth that April.

Almost immediately his career was severely interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 that forced the abandonment of peacetime football, and during the War McIntosh still played for Wolves in wartime fixtures, and was part of their 1942 War Cup victory.After the War he resumed with Wolves but only played 3 more matches in the first peacetime season of 1946-47 before a transfer to Second Division club Birmingham City in January 1947 after 9 goals for Wolves in 52 matches either side of the War.

He immediately helped The Blues to a third place finish but they missed out on promotion, and in February 1948 he transferred to Coventry City as Birmingham were in the process of winning the Second Division Championship, in which he’d played in 9 matches, having scored 4 goals in 23 matches during his year at St Andrews. He had a year at Coventry City but was never a regular for The Sky Blues, scoring 3 goals in 20 matches before transferring to non league Kidderminster Harriers in 1949, later playing for Bilston in 1951 before his eventual retirement.