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Marketing
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Gordon Bolland as our Marketing Manager. Gordon is Boston born and bred and became a highly successful professional footballer after leaving school. When his playing days were over, he became a sales manager for a local company and has over 30 years experience in marketing and selling. We consider he will be an invaluable asset to our team and is highly respected in Boston and the outlying areas. He has lived in Boston ever since his football career finished and is a very well known figure in local business circles.
A striker, Gordon joined Londoners Chelsea as a teenager, and was a member of the sides which won the F A Youth Cup in 1960 and 1961, alongside the likes of Peter Bonetti, Ron Harris, Terry Venables and Bobby Tambling . Despite this, he only made two appearances for the first team and was released in March 1962, after which he signed for Leyton Orient.
Gordon played for Orient during their only season in the English top flight, and scored 19 goals in 64 league games before joining Norwich City in 1964 for £31,500, where he scored 29 goals in 105 league matches. After a brief spell with Charlton Athletic, he signed for Millwall for £10,000 in October 1968. Gordon proved to be a fast, skillful striker who could also drop into midfield to great effect. It was from this position that he scored a spectacular goal against Bristol City on 16 October 1971 which won the BBC’s Match of the Day"Goal of the Month" award. In the 1972-73 season, he scored 9 goals in seven consecutive league games. Gordon remained with Millwall for seven years, scoring 62 goals in 244 games, and is an inductee of the club's Hall of Fame. After leaving Millwall, he came home to Boston and finished his career as first player, then player-manager of Boston United.
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