He made his international debut in June 1958 in 1-0 win against Czechoslovakia during the 1958 World Cup. Doog' moved to Villa and failed to settle in and made it a succession of an approximate two seasons with his first three clubs and matched that with moves to Peterborough and Leicester, but still managed to average out with a goal every two games. Dougan would go on to establish himself as a hero for the team, but arguably never topped that great lost single: imagine the terraces at Molineux singing along to its chorus: "Can you see me heading/ You see me kicking/ You see me scoring/ In your goal. In November 1968, Bill McGarry replaced Allen as manager, and Dougan later described the seven years he spent playing for McGarry as "the most traumatic of my career".

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He advocated the belief that players should control their own destiny and used his position as Chairman of the PFA to further players' rights. It helped that it was commercial TV,” Moore told me, “because it meant that time was of the essence before we had to cut to adverts. Author Melvyn Bragg wrote that The Footballer was "predictable" with "thinly drawn" characters, but praised the dialogue and the "narrative flair". The thug, disguised with a Wolves scarf, ran towards The Doog, who had just scored a dramatic equaliser, before kicking him in the groin.

He was also one of six Northern Ireland internationals to play for a Shamrock Rovers XI against Brazil in an exhibition match in Dublin in July 1973. The ball found Dougan, who mis-hit his attempt, but it skidded on the rock-hard surface to find the net via a Millwall defender.

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Whilst playing part-time for Distillery he also worked at the Harland and Wolff shipbuilding company. Dougan resigned mid season in January 1985 with Wolves going on to suffer a second successive relegation in the 1984–85 season. I became a big fan of The Doogs thereafter and i am still collecting memorabilia to this day ,a love afair that has lasted over fifty years.

At times, he was a very controversial character, never frightened of taking on authority, which got him into trouble in his playing career and, needless to say, off the field as well," said the current PFA chief executive, Gordon Taylor.