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It is a matter of fact that Kilmarnock were part-time professional (or "semi-professional" if preferred) during Clarke's time with the club. I am not sure how this can be credibly disputed, since Clarke himself has confirmed it in the source used in the article: "Do you feel that full time football would have made Killie a force?" "Who knows? The money just wasn't there." Is there some sort of Wikipedia convention I'm not aware of where we pretend part-time Scottish footballers (historically in the majority) were full-time? Bring back Daz Sampson ( talk) 17:45, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
"Walter McCrae signed me just as the full-time era at Kilmarnock was coming to an end".
"life couldn't be better…football and a job (the good old days)!"
"although playing for Killie for ten years was an honour it would have been nice to try full time football"
"Given the opportunity, I felt I could have been a better player if I'd been full time."
Bring back Daz Sampson (
talk)
19:29, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
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Well, we were only a part-time Club at the time and Tommy was our first ever full-time player! You have to look at it like this. We only trained on a Monday and a Thursday night then and then one Thursday night, a Scottish Internationalist and top, top player was sitting in the changing room ready to go out and train.