Colin James Murdock (born 2 July 1975) is a former association football player, who played for clubs including Preston North End, Hibernian and Rotherham United, and for Northern Ireland.

A former Northern Ireland international, Murdock started his career as an apprentice at Manchester United on leaving Ballymena Academy in 1991.

During his time at Easter Road, he scored the winning goal in a penalty shootout against Rangers in a Scottish League Cup semi-final.

[3] He made 29 league appearances and scored two goals for the Shrews, but was released by new manager Paul Simpson on 29 April 2008.

After postgraduate legal studies at Leeds Beckett University,[7] he was a trainee solicitor with Manchester law firm George Davies LLP,[8][9] and after qualifying in 2011 joined another Manchester firm, Pannone,[10] while also setting up his own business, Murdock Sports Management.