Well, for those of you with a yearning for the chronicles of the infamous Andy Halliday, born in the chilly October of 1991 in Scotland, here you have it. Heighted at 5ft 8in (or 1.73m for the metrically-inclined among us), weighing in at around 10st 7lb (67kg if numbers are more your game), he dons the number 11 jersey. His position? The humble central midfielder, currently plying his trade up at Motherwell. The worth of this football artisan, said to be in the region of a marvellous £170k, according to the wonderfully precise folks over at Transfermarkt, is set to potentially shift in mere months, with his contract up in May 2025.
But let’s take a stroll down memory lane, shall we? Halliday launched his riveting tale with Livingston back in 2007, making that debut league appearance in the season that followed. The seasons of 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 saw our protagonist take the field 13 and 32 times respectively, the latter flavouring his record with a nifty 14 goals.
The engrossing saga continued, as he moved south to Middlesbrough for a whopping £100k, a princely sum in May 2010. 2010-2011 saw a dozen appearances, a single goal to tie the bow. Later stints proved less fruitful — 19 appearances in 2012-2013 and an anaemic five outings in 2013-2014.
Loans noted in his biography were to Walsall in 2011, a brief jaunt, one might say, and on to Blackpool in 2014, both with a handful of appearances in the teams.
Yet, the wanderer did not stop, and found the way to Bradford City in 2014, 25 appearances and a goal to his name in the 2014-2015 season. Then it was off to Rangers in 2015, where the seasons provided varying returns, from 35 appearances in his first season to a meagre six in 2019-2020.
An intriguing detour into Qəbələ, Azerbaijan, on loan in 2017 was followed by a return to Rangers in 2018. The journey finally took him up to Hearts in 2020, where he spent a handful of seasons before his eventual sojourn to Motherwell in 2024.
And when he's not shaping the fortunes of his teams league-wide, Halliday staged minor roles in the League Cup 2024-2025 and Scottish Cup 2024-2025 for Motherwell. What a portrait of a life in football, I'm sure you'll agree.
