{"id":5184,"date":"2026-01-05T20:33:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5184"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:33:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:33:55","slug":"colin-mcdonald-former-burnley-and-england-goalkeeper-dies-aged-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5184","title":{"rendered":"Colin McDonald: Former Burnley and England goalkeeper dies aged 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McDonald initially signed as an amateur in July 1948 and played for the reserve team before being called up for National Service in 1950.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Returning to Turf Moor on a professional contract in 1952, he &#8220;established himself as Burnley&#8217;s number one and for the next couple of seasons, he was more or less ever-present&#8221;, the club said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After recovering from a broken ankle suffered against Chelsea in December 1956, he made his first appearance for the national side in 1958 before that year&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald initially signed as an amateur in July 1948 and played for the reserve team before being called up for National Service in 1950. Returning to Turf Moor on a professional contract in 1952, he &#8220;established himself as Burnley&#8217;s number one and for the next couple of seasons, he was more or less ever-present&#8221;, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}