Surprisingly, Ross never started his senior professional football career with any of the three Highland Football League Clubs in Inverness at that time, and went south to Preston as a schoolboy.
[1] He started with Preston as a junior and after making his debut for them in the early 1960s, he went on to play 386 league games for them.
[1] This included a place in the 1964 FA Cup Final team.
In April 2009, he was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement award by Preston, and he worked for them in the commercial department on matchdays.
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