Career
Born in Falkirk, Scotland, Mulhall played as outside left who played at Aberdeen and Sunderland and was capped three times for Scotland before he became a manager for Bradford City, Bolton Wanderers and Halifax Town. Two of George Mulhall"s elder brothers had forged professional careers with Falkirk and Albion Rovers by the time he signed for Aberdeen on his 17th birthday. He had played at Denny Young Men’s Christian Association and Kilsyth Rangers before moving to Pittodrie.
In September 1962 he signed for Sunderland for £25,000.
Mulhall made more than 250 appearances for Sunderland, where he still holds the record for the most consecutive appearances for the club (125), and scored 55 goals. He stayed for three seasons before playing one final game for Greenock Morton.
Mulhall moved into coaching upon his playing retirement first becoming trainer-coach at Halifax Town where he was promoted to first team manager in 1972. He was in charge until September 1974.
A month later he moved to Bolton Wanderers where he spent four years as coach and assistant manager.
In November 1978 he moved to Bradford City to replace John Napier as manager. In his first full season he guided the club to 5th in Division Four before he was tempted back to Bolton in March 1981. He managed Bolton for one year until he was fired among rumours that he was to be replaced by Pelé.
He served as scout at Ipswich Town and assistant manager at Tranmere Rovers.
He later returned to Halifax Town as joint manager with Kieran O"Regan and got them promoted back into the Football League in 1998, at which point Mulhall retired.
