Darren Jackson Player Profile

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• Date of Birth

  Darren was born on this date in Edinburgh.

  Monday, July 25th, 1966

• Signed For Dundee United

  Edinburgh born Darren began his career at Meadowbank Thistle, while he worked in a part-time job as a printer. Twenty plus goals in his first season as a first team player earned him a move to English Division One side Newcastle United for a fee of around £40,000 in October 1986, making his debut against Arsenal a few days later. Darren played in over fifty matches for The Magpies, in a team that included Paul Gascoigne and Peter Beardsley.

  Thursday, December 15th, 1988

• Debut - Dundee United 2 - 0 Celtic

  Celtic's third visit of the season proved no more profitable than their previous two as we defeated them for the third time without having lost a goal in the process. At the same time it stretched our unbeaten run to 10 games.

  Saturday, December 17th, 1988

• First Goal - Dundee United 1 - 0 Hibernian

  Scotland's last remaining European survivors met earlier than scheduled due to Scotland's World Cup tie with Norway. Most of the action too was confined to the early stages. Dave Bowman had a shot on goal after only 15 seconds and we took the lead with less than three minutes on the clock. The goal was a personal disaster for Hibs 'keeper and skipper Andy Goram. Maurice Malpas hit a fairly innocuous looking shot, but Goram diving forward, let the ball slip from his grasp and Darren Jackson nipped in to strike the ball home for his first goal for the club. The former Newcastle midfielder hasn't enjoyed the best of luck since coming to Tannadice and this unfortunate trend continued when he was injured as Goram punched clear and landed on Darren, who eventually had to hobble off three minutes later. The game was interrupted by a series of niggling fouls which led to bookings for Paul Kane, Billy McKinlay and Miodrag Krivokapic, but Collins did go close for Hibs with a dipping volley which went narrowly over. Maurice Malpas had another couple of pots at goal early in the second half, but this time there was no repeat of Goram's earlier blunder.

  Wednesday, November 8th, 1989

• Last Goal - Dundee United 2 - 1 Airdrie

  The same eleven who had earned both points at Brockville were entrusted with the task of trying to breakdown an Airdrie defence which hadn't conceded a goal in their last three outings. That proud record was almost dented in the fifth minute when Dave Bowman got in behind the Diamonds defence and cut the ball back from the bye-line, but Duncan Ferguson shot over the bar. Airdrie replied in the twelfth minute when Boyle controlled a Kirkwood cross and hit an angled shot across the face of the goal and past the far post. Such goalmouth action wasn't to set the trend of a match which was for the most part, a story of near complete territorially ascendancy by United against a defiant and resolute Airdrie defence.

  Saturday, January 11th, 1992

• Last Appearance - Motherwell 1 - 2 Dundee United

  For the second successive season our final match of the campaign was against Motherwell, but the circumstances were a far from the captivating Cup Final of the previous year. Fir Park's lowest crowd of the season saw the home side open brightly enough, but it wasn't long before we were threatening Thomson's charge.

  Saturday, May 2nd, 1992

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