5'10" 12st.
b. Glasgow 9 January 1913
d. Hastings June 1993
 

Debut 19 October 1936 (23y 284d) Final Game 26 February 1938 (25y 48d)
CAREER: St Agnes’ School;St Agnes’ Boys Guild;Townhead Benburb;Dunoon Athletic;Millwall Nov'33;Third Lanark '34[39+9];Blackburn Rovers Oct'36 (£1,100);Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic Jun'38 (£1,250)[35-3];Weymouth (p-m) Jun'48-Mar'50;Dundalk  Jul’50-May'51 (p-c).
HONOURS Sc Cp los (Third Lanark) ’36.Sc 2 Div Ch (Third Lanark) ’35.
 

FL               11 apps
Sent off  1
 

Gallacher had played south of the border with Millwall but even three years later he had not become attuned to the greater pace of the game. On his return to Scotland he was one of the fundamental reasons why his club won the Second Division championship and then reached the final of the Scottish Cup. A bewitching ball artist he had a quick temper and since he suffered a great deal of rough handling, explosions were inevitable. Sometimes he received little sympathy from his own side aptly summed up when his team-mate Jack Bruton, waiting unmarked in the penalty area shouted, "When you've finished with it Paddy just sling it over here." He failed to settle to the English game but lost the best years of his career to the war. He moved into management at Weymouth and even approaching 40 was good enough to score 21 goals in a season with Dundalk. He worked after as an HGV driver at Bexhill on Sea.