Patrick Slavin

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| name = Patrick Slavin

| fullname = Patrick Slavin

| birth_date = 5 May 1877

| birth_place = Shotts, Scotland

| death_date = {{death date and age |1916|11|13|1877|5|5|df=y}}

| death_place = near Serre-lès-Puisieux, France

| position = Outside right

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| years1 = {{0|0000}}–1897

| clubs1 = Fauldhouse Hibs

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| years2 = 1897

| clubs2 = Celtic

| caps2 = 1

| goals2 = 0

| years3 = 1897–1898

| clubs3 = Motherwell

| caps3 = 10

| goals3 = 4

| years4 = 1898–1900

| clubs4 = Dykehead

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| years5 = 1900

| clubs5 = Carfin Shamrock

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| years6 = 1900

| clubs6 = Dykehead

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| years7 = 1900

| clubs7 = Albion Rovers

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| years8 = 1900–1901

| clubs8 = East Benhar Rangers

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| clubs9 = Heatherbell

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| clubs10 = Broxburn

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| clubs11 = West Calder Swifts

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Patrick Slavin (5 May 1877 – 13 November 1916) was a Scottish professional footballer who played in the Scottish League for Motherwell and Celtic as an outside right.{{Cite web |title=Celtic Player Patrick Slavin Details |url=http://www.fitbastats.com/celtic/player.php?playerid=2265 |access-date=17 September 2016 |website=www.fitbastats.com}}{{Cite web |title=Slavin, Patrick |url=http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Slavin,+Patrick |access-date=17 September 2016 |website=The Celtic Wiki}}

Personal life

Slavin served as a sergeant in the Royal Scots during the First World War.{{Cite web |title=They Died in the Conflict in Season 1916–1917 |url=http://www.scotlandswar.co.uk/pdf_Season_1916-1917_(Fell).pdf |access-date=15 May 2018 |page=12}} At the time of his enlistment in February 1915, he was working as a foreman at Braehead Quarry, Edinburgh.{{Cite web |title=Fauldhouse Roll of Honour |url=http://www.scotlandswar.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/ROLL%20OF%20HONOUR%20-%20Enlisted%2C%20wounded%2C%20decorated%20and%20killed%20-%20WW1_0.pdf |access-date=25 July 2018 |page=27}} Slavin was killed during a failed attack on Serre-lès-Puisieux on 13 November 1916, during the Battle of the Ancre.{{Cite web |last=Hoskins |first=Robert |title=Research and Remembrance – Celtic Football Club |url=http://www.hellfirecorner.co.uk/celtic.htm |access-date=17 September 2016 |website=www.hellfirecorner.co.uk}} He was buried in Serre Road Cemetery No. 2.{{CWGC|id=609883|accessdate=18 September 2016}}

Career statistics

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Celtic \|1896–97 \|Scottish First Division \|1 \|0 \|0 \|0 \|1 \|0
Motherwell \|1897-89{{Cite book \|last=Litster \|first=John \|title=Record of Pre-War Scottish League Players \|publisher=PM Publications \|location=Norwich}} \|Scottish Second Division \|10 \|4 \|2 \|0 \|12 \|4
colspan="3" \|Career total !11 !4 !2 !0 !13 !4

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