Stuart Murray Balmer is a former Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 professional football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 defender who is currently assistant manager at Ross County

Ross County F.C.

Ross County Football Club are a Scottish professional football team from the town of Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty. Founded in 1929 they currently compete in the Scottish Football League First Division and play their home matches at Victoria Park. Prior to the 1994–95 season they played in the...

 in the Scottish First Division

Scottish Football League First Division

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Career

Balmer has the distinction of being the first outfield player in the English league to be allocated the squad number 1. When at Charlton in the early 1990s the squad numbers were allocated alphabetically, hence Balmer (and not a goalkeeper as is typical) wore the number 1 shirt for the season.
He was previously the player/assistant-manager to Billy Reid

Billy Reid (football)

Billy Reid is a Scottish former footballer and is currently manager of Scottish First Division club Hamilton Academical.-Life and career:...

 at both Clyde

Clyde F.C.

Clyde Football Club are a Scottish professional football team currently playing in the Third Division of the Scottish Football League. Although based for the last fifteen years in the new town of Cumbernauld, they are traditionally associated with an area that covers Rutherglen in South...

 and Hamilton Academical.