Gordon Cumming

{{short description|Scottish footballer}} {{distinguish|Gordon-Cumming baronets}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Gordon Cumming | image = | caption = | fullname = Gordon Robert Riddell Cumming | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|1|23|df=y}} | birth_place = Johnstone, Scotland | height = | position = Winger | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = Glasgow United | clubs1 = Eaglesham Amateurs | years1 = 1961-1963 | goals1 = | years2 = 1963–1969 | clubs2 = Arsenal | caps2 = 0 | goals2 = 0 | years3 = 1969–1977 | clubs3 = Reading | caps3 = 331 | goals3 = 61 | nationalyears1 = | nationalteam1 = | nationalcaps1 = | nationalgoals1 = }} '''Gordon Cumming''' is a Scottish former footballer who played as a winger for English clubs Arsenal and Reading.<ref name=Stats>{{hugman|4478}}</ref>

==Career== Cumming was born on 23 January 1948 in Johnstone, Scotland.<ref name=Stats/> His primary position was as a winger. He started his playing career at Scottish team Glasgow United. Before moving to Arsenal Cumming played for successful amateur team Eaglesham Amateurs, where his family lived. Cumming then moved to London, joining Arsenal where he won the FA Youth Cup in 1966.<ref name=FAYC>{{cite web|url=https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2012/december/guide-to-the-game/|title=Guide to the Game!|publisher=Reading F.C.}}</ref> He then spent the next three years at Highbury before moving to Reading in 1969. There, he was the primary taker of penalties until the arrivals of Robin Friday and Alan Taylor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.royalsrecord.co.uk/seasons/1970.html|title=Season 1970-71|website=Royals Record.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.royalsrecord.co.uk/seasons/1974.html|title=Season 1974-75|website=Royals Record.co.uk}}</ref> He was Reading's player of the year in 1971–72.<ref name=Reading /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.readingfcformerplayers.co.uk/players/52/Gordon_Cumming|title=Gordon Cumming|website=Reading FC Former Players.co.uk|access-date=13 March 2017|archive-date=14 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314063202/http://www.readingfcformerplayers.co.uk/players/52/Gordon_Cumming|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1975–76, Cumming played in the Reading team that won promotion to the Third Division.<ref name=Third>{{cite web|url=http://www.royalsrecord.co.uk/seasons/1975.html|title=Season 1975-76|website=Royals Record.co.uk}}</ref> In all, he scored 61 goals in 331 games for the Royals.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.btinternet.com/~rfc1871/watn/c.htm| title=Where Are They Now?| archive-url=https://archive.today/20120630225115/http://www.btinternet.com/~rfc1871/watn/c.htm| archive-date=30 June 2012| url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Personal life== Cumming retired from football in 1978 and went on to open a restaurant. Cumming is married to wife Christina and has two daughters, Susan and Amanda.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.where-are-they-now.co.uk/footballer/Cumming+Gordon/5304|title=Cumming, Gordon|website=Where Are They Now.co.uk}}</ref>

==Honours==

===Club=== '''Arsenal''' *FA Youth Cup: 1966

===Individual=== *Reading FC Player of the Year.<ref name=Reading>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/ReadingFC/status/426311188033449984|title=Happy 66th Birthday to Gordon Cumming|publisher=Reading F.C.}}</ref>

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