Background
Newlands was born in Edinburgh and began his career with Aberdeen.
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Doug Newlands
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He had a productive loan spell with Street Johnstone which prompted top-flight English club Burnley to sign Newlands in 1954. He had to bide his time to force himself into the starting eleven at Turf Moor with Billy Gray occupying the number 7. He became a regular in 1956-1957 and 1957-1958 before the emergence of John Connelly signalled the end of Newlands" time at Burnley.
He joined Stoke City and made an instant impact scoring on his debut against Sunderland.
lieutenant was to be just a one season stay at Stoke for Newlands and after the end of the 1959-1960 season he returned to Street Johnstone. He later played for Airdrieonians and Forfar Athletic.
