Footballers who have played league football for PNE & Ipswich
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839) MACKEN Jon (PNE signed July 97 174 apps 63 gls) (Ips 14 apps 3gls)
856) MATHIE Alex (PNE signed Sept 99 12 apps 2 gls) (Ips 109 apps 38 gls)
932) MILLER Tommy (PNE signed Nov 2006 7 apps 0 gls (Ips 117 apps 29 gls)
927) STEWART Marcus (PNE signed March 20064 apps 0 gls (Ips 75 apps 27 gls)
Player Profile ALEX MATHIE
Alexander Mathie was born in Bathgate on 20 December 1968. Mathie started his football career with Celtic juniors before signing professionally in May 1987 for the club. Mathie stayed with Celtic for 4 years but only made 11 appearances in that time.
On 1 August 1991 Mathie joined Morton for a fee of £100,000. In the following two seasons Mathie scored 31 league goals in 74 appearances. In was during the 1992/93 Mathie got his first taste of English football by signing for Port Vale on loan in March 1993 making three substitute appearances.
On 30 July 1993 Mathie joined Newcastle for a fee of £285,000. Mathie scored on his debut on 3rd September 1993 as Newcastle beat Sheffield Wednesday 4-2 at home. Mathie made a further 15 appearances scoring a further two goals against Coventry and West Ham.
Mathie made a further 9 appearances in 1994/95 for Newcastle scoring another gaol against West Ham. His final appearances for the Toon was a 3-0 defeat at QPR on 4 February 1995. He had made 25 appearances for Newcastle, 22 of these as a substitute.
Mathie signed for Ipswich on 24 February 1995 for a fee of £500,000. Mathie made his debut the following day scoring in a 2-1 victory over Southampton. His second goal was in the last match of the season as Ipswich lost 4-1 to Sheffield Wednesday and were relegated from the Premiership.
The 1995/96 season saw Ipswich finished 7 and Mathie was one goal behind Ipswich's top scorer Marshall with 18 goals. Mathie scored a hat-trick on 2 September 1995 as Sunderland was beaten 3-0. Mathie also scored a brace in four further matches against Stoke, Port Vale, Watford and Huddersfield with Ipswich winning all four of the matches.
Due to injury Mathie was limited to 4 goals in 12 appearances in 1996/97, two of these coming in a 3-3 draw against Oldham.
Although he managed to score a brace in the League Cup ties against Fulham and Crystal Palace.
The 1997/98 season saw Ipswich reached the play offs for the second consecutive season as Mathie finished with 13 goals, 7 behind leading scorer David Johnston. His highlight was undoubtedly the 5-0 victory over local rivals Norwich in February 1998 as Mathie scored a first half hat-trick with goals in the 2, 27 and 42 minute, before going off with a calf strain at the end of the first half. Mathie also scored a brace in matches against Port Vale and Bradford.
Mathie made a further 8 appearances in 1998/99 scoring in his final appearance in a 3-0 victory over Crystal Palace on 3 October 1998. Mathie had scored 38 goals in 109 appearances for Ipswich.
On 16 October 1998 Mathie returned to Scotland with Dundee United for a fee of £700,000. Mathie made his debut for Dundee United in a 2-2 draw at home to Motherwell on 7 November 1998. Although he scored in his second match in the 2-1 defeat at Dunfermline , Mathie didn't score in the remaining 17 matches.
After playing in the 4-1 defeat against Rangers on 21 August 1999, Mathie joined Second Division Preston on 17 September on a three month loan. Mathie made his debut for the Lilywhites the following day in a 2-0 victory at Gillingham. His home debut was in the second leg of the Worthington Cup against Sheffield United scoring two of the three goals as PNE turned around a first leg 2-0 deficit to win 3-2 on aggregate. Mathie's two league goals came on October 9 in a 1-0 home victory against Bristol City which was his 100 goal of his senior career and from the substitute bench in the 2-2 draw at Colchester . Mathie's final appearance for PNE was on December 18 in the 3-0 win at Deepdale against Blackpool coming on as sub for Bjarki Gunnlaugsson. His twelve appearances for Preston with five of these coming from the substitute bench earned him a Second Division Championship medal as Preston finished on 95 points, seven points ahead of second place Burnley.
His first game back for Dundee United was in January 2000 in a 0-0 draw against Hibs. Mathie scored in his next match as they beat Airdrie 4-1 in the FA Cup. In March Mathie scored three goals in two matches including both goals in a 2-1 win at Hearts.
In 2000/01 season Mathie made a further four league appearances for Dundee United and played his last match for the club in a 3-0 League Cup victory at Alloa. Mathie had made 34 appearances for the club, scoring four goals.
Mathie joined York on a free transfer on 28 September 2000 and made his debut in a 1-0 defeat at Hartlepool two days later. His only goal for York that season was in the next match on his home debut in a 2-1 win against Mansfield.
The 2001/02 saw Mathie score two goals against Exeter in October 2001 and Leyton Orient in February 2002. The following season in a injury hampered spell at York saw him make just 10 appearances. The last of these was on 4 March 2003 in a 2-1 defeat at Darlington. Mathie had mad 52 league appearances for the Minstermen scoring three goals although half of these appearances was from the substitute bench.
Mathie had short spells as manager of UniBond League side Spennymoor before joining Pickering Town towards the end of the 2002/03 season but only made two brief appearances one as a sub and one being substituted due to a broken nose.
Mathie became manager of Northern League Division One side West Auckland Town in November 2003. After finishing 13 in 2002/03 and struggling need the foot of the table he left in September 2004 to join Pickering Town , replacing Steve Brown for the second time, the first time was at the York City Academy. Picking Town who play in the Northern Counties East Premier Division finished fifth fifth out of the twenty teams in 2004/05.
In the 2005-06 season the club finished sixth in the league and reached the quarter finals of the FA Vase, the furthest in the club's history. The team eventually lost out to Nantwich Town 2-0.
After an encouraging start in the 2006-07 season, results took a turn for the worse over the winter period, and a run of one win in eleven games led to the resignation of Mathie as manager on 6 January 2007 and replaced by ex-Pickering player and Mathie's Assistant Mark Wood as the new manager.
Mathie has also got a UEFA B standard coaching badge having set up the under-nines and under-tens team in his local village, Wilberfoss, near Pocklington.