Scott Mulholland

Scott Mulholland (born 7 September 1986) is an English association football player, who played in one match for Queens Park Rangers in 2005.

Mulholland joined Woolwich Youth FC of the Bexley league at the age of eight, at the time managed by his father. A year later, at age nine, Mullholland was accepted into the youth ranks of the West London football club Queens Park Rangers, turning down a chance to play with Ajax. Mulholland continued at Woolwich Youth as a centre forward, scoring 211 goals in 5 years. During this period Scott also represented Bexley Borough and Kent county football sides.

Although through his youth career, where Scott was recognised for his talents in front of goal, at Queens Park Rangers he was made to adapt to a midfield role. This positional change was predominantly due to his height and stature of which his coaches felt didn't suit the role of centre forward. Standing at 5'6 and weighing around 140 lbs, Scott took to his new position with ease and was rewarded with a place in the Queens Park Rangers reserve team at the age of sixteen.

After encouraging performances in the reserves he was called up to represent Scotland at under 19 level. Scotland had been made aware that despite being born in England he was eligible for a Scottish call-up and approached him to play. However in a dramatic twist of fate he was injured in a reserve fixture prior to the international and ultimately his opportunity was lost.

Scott was invited by manager Ian Holloway to train with the QPR first team in 2004. After training with the team for several months and playing understudy to Canadian international midfielder Marc Bircham, Mulholland was loaned out in February 2005 to Hastings United of the Isthmian League in a three month deal. After only two weeks, however, Mulholland was recalled by QPR due to an injury crisis.

He made his only first team appearance on 19 April 2005 when he came off the bench to replace Marc Bircham with 69 minutes of the game against Burnley played. QPR were at the time losing 1–0. Mulholland came close to equalising the score with a header, but goalkeeper Brian Jensen pulled off a magnificent save to deny the midfielder a debut goal. Ade Akinbiyi later scored his second goal of the game to give Burnley a 2–0 victory.

Mulholland realised after the game that he had broken his toe in a challenge with Akinbiyi, which would rule him out for the rest of the season. Mulholland left QPR in the summer of 2005.

He is now earning his living doing a paper round, where some weeks he can make £7.50