He began his career in Scottish Junior football with Shawfield, before earning a professional contract with English First Division club Leicester City in December 1956.

He had a poor start to his career at Arsenal, though he did feature in two League Cup final defeats, but he found success at the club after being switched from right-half to centre-half in 1969.

[19] He returned to action in February after replacing new signing Ian White in the starting eleven, and scored his first goal for the Foxes in a 3–1 victory over Manchester United.

[22] An injury sustained by Len Chalmers early in the game meant that McLintock was shifted from right-half to fill in at right-back, and ten-men Leicester fell to a 2–0 defeat.

[32] Despite the board relenting and offering him £80 a week to sign a new contract, he had already made up his mind to leave the club in favour of the chance to win "cups and caps" elsewhere and put in a formal transfer request.

[34] He endured a poor début at Highbury, mishitting a back-pass to allow Nottingham Forest's John Barnwell – who ironically had been sold by Arsenal to finance McLintock's transfer – to score an easy goal.

[35] He found that manager Billy Wright had no identifiable system of play and McLintock soon regretted joining the club as his first four games all ended in defeat.

[39] The new management duo of Bertie Mee and Dave Sexton began to slowly turn the team around, and Arsenal improved to ninth place by the 1967–68 campaign.

[41] They reached the League Cup final at Wembley Stadium in 1968, but were beaten 1–0 by Leeds United, with Arsenal having an equalising goal ruled out after McLintock was judged to have fouled goalkeeper Gary Sprake.

[47] He started the 1969–70 season at centre-half after initially filling in at the position for an injured Peter Simpson towards the end of the previous campaign; this in turn allowed George Graham to move back and play in midfield.

[49] In Europe, he missed the first two rounds due to injury, before returning to the starting eleven for victories over Rouen (France), FCM Bacău (Romania) and Ajax (Netherlands) to reach the final against Belgian club Anderlecht.

[53] They secured the title with a 1–0 victory over North London derby rivals Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane, Ray Kennedy scoring the winning goal.

Even the compliments we got – well organised, highly efficient, powerful – had the whiff of back-handed tributes.McLintock later said that Arsenal were never the same force after Don Howe left to manage West Bromwich Albion in the summer of 1971, and that complacency crept into the squad.

[59] The pressing game was abandoned to suit new record signing Alan Ball, who was talented but did not fit the style of play that had brought the team success.

[66] McLintock was signed by Queens Park Rangers in June 1973 for a fee of £25,000; he chose to join QPR ahead of West Bromwich Albion as he wanted to remain in the First Division.

[75] However, he rarely featured after this game as Mackay, Paddy Crerand, John Greig, Bobby Murdoch, Pat Stanton and Billy Bremner were all preferred ahead of him at right-half.

[76] "The majority of the press had disappeared so far up the Old Firm's arses that they could never be objective about English-based players and the Scottish Football Association (SFA) often treated us like the shit on their shoes.

[78] He sold striker Frank Worthington to Bolton Wanderers for £20,000 as the player needed a signing on fee and higher wages to avoid bankruptcy.

[87] He worked as assistant manager to John Docherty at Millwall from July 1987 to February 1990, helping the Lions to win promotion as champions of the Second Division in 1987–88.

[88] McLintock found success as an after dinner speaker, and as a pundit for BBC Radio and at Sky Sports where he spent 12 years working with Rodney Marsh, George Best and Clive Allen.

[89][90][91][5][92][93] He maintained his love of Arsenal with a corporate box at Highbury, upgrading, when they moved across the railway tracks to the Emirates Stadium, the former captain is recognised as a true club supporter.

He was an astute businessman, buying a pub,[94] and became an investor in prime residential property originally in his playing days his interest continued and he focused on the Buy-to-let sector.