[5][7] McKennan moved south of the border to join Second Division club West Bromwich Albion (for whom he had guested during the war) for a £10,650 fee in October 1947.
[8][9] McKennan went on to play for Football League clubs Leicester City, Brentford, Middlesbrough and Oldham Athletic and scored 63 goals in 171 appearances,[1] before moving to Northern Ireland in 1954, where he played out two injury-ravaged seasons as player-manager of Coleraine.
[3][8][10] As of December 2018, McKennan is the third of three Brentford players to register five goals in a single league match.
[13] McKennan served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers during the Second World War and saw action as a Command Sergeant-Major on D-Day.
[14] Oldham Athletic Coleraine This biographical article related to association football in Scotland, about a forward born in the 1910s, is a stub.