Thomas "Tot" Strachan was a footballer who won the FA Cup with Blackburn Rovers in 1886.
He started out at Witton, before being poached by the wealthy Blackburn Rovers, the club most adept at finding ways around the rules on professionalism thanks to its backers providing sinecure jobs for footballers; Strachan was found employment as a "cotton twister".
[14] After finally picking up a Cup-winners' medal, for 1886–87 he re-joined the newly-ambitious Witton,[15] by which time he was playing on the right,[16] but only stayed there for a season before joining Darwen.
[17] In 1888 he joined the moribund Blackburn Olympic,[18] and on the final collapse of that club returned yet again to Witton,[19] although he does not seem to have played after appearing in a 5–0 defeat at Sheffield Wednesday.
[20] Strachan was something of a local celebrity and joker; on one occasion, when he mistook a finger-bowl for a drink, he claimed that he had tasted "woss soup, many a time".