Grant Tierney

Grant Tierney
Personal information
Full name Peter Grant Tierney [1]
Date of birth (1961-10-11) 11 October 1961
Place of birth Falkirk, Scotland
Height 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Playing position Defender
Youth career
Bainsford
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1978–1980 Heart of Midlothian 0 (0)
1980–1985 Cowdenbeath 157 (9)
1985–1988 Meadowbank Thistle 132 (10)
1988–1990 Dunfermline Athletic 51 (3)
1990–1996 Partick Thistle 85 (5)
1996–1997 Livingston 38 (3)
1997–1998 Stenhousemuir 1 (0)
1998– Camelon Juniors
Total 464 (30)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Peter Grant Tierney (born 11 October 1961) is a Scottish former footballer who has played in the Scottish Football League Premier Division for Dunfermline Athletic and Partick Thistle.

Career

Tierney began his playing career at Hearts but never made a first team appearance and after breaking a leg in a reserve team fixture, moved on to Cowdenbeath. After joining Meadowbank Thistle, he was appointed club captain and led the Edinburgh club in a successful period where they won the Scottish Football League Second Division in 1986–87 then finished runners-up in the First Division the following year, being denied a place in the Premier Division by league reconstruction.[2]

In December 1988, Tierney joined Dunfermline Athletic and won promotion to the Premier Division at the end of the season. As the only part-time player in the top division however, Tierney gradually slipped out of the first-team at Dunfermline and he joined Partick Thistle in the summer of 1990 for what was then, a club record transfer fee.[2] Thistle were promoted back to the Premier Division in 1992 and Tierney played a further four seasons in the top league before leaving for Livingston in January 1996.[3]

Tierney was appointed as caretaker-manager of Camelon Juniors in May 2016 until the end of the season following the departure of John Sludden.[4] He had previously been assisting the club in an off-field capacity.[5]

References

  1. "Peter Grant Tierney". londonhearts.com. London Hearts Supporters Club. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 "1990 - Grant Tierney". partickthistleahistory.wikifoundry.com. The Partick Thistle History Archive. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  3. Grant Tierney career at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database
  4. "Bell and Ure to leave as McDowell arrives at Carmuirs". Falkirk Herald. 8 June 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  5. Campbell, Scott (7 May 2016). "Grant Tierney: Stay up and win World Cup". The Scottish Sun. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
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