FORMER City and Park Avenue keeper Pat Liney has passed away aged 86.

Liney, known as the “singing goalkeeper”, made 166 appearances for the Bantams in the late 1960s and early ‘70s.

Alongside Bobby Ham, he held the rare distinction of having played two spells with both Bradford sides.

Scot Liney was a legendary figure at Dundee as a member of the Dens Park team that won the Scottish League title in 1962. He had been honorary club president there since 2011.

A Dundee club statement said today: “Everyone at Dundee Football Club was devastated to learn of the passing of honorary club president and 1962 Scottish League championship-winning goalkeeper Pat Liney at the age of 86.

“Pat Liney is not only a Dundee FC goalkeeping great but also a bona fide Dark Blue legend, a Scottish League title winner, club president, a DFC Hall of Fame inductee, a great singer and an absolute gentleman.

“The thoughts of everyone at the Kilmac Stadium are with Pat’s friends and family at this extremely sad time.”

Liney won promotion from the Fourth Division with City in 1969 after Jimmy Wheeler’s team lost just one of their last 23 matches. They clinched it with a 3-1 win over Darlington in the final game.

Liney looked back with fondness to his days in Bradford - apart from the time that Bruce Bannister broke his nose with a flailing elbow in training.

In an interview in 2008, he laughed: “If I’d come round a bit quicker, I’d have got up off the floor and had him!”