Jamie Mackie made more than 500 appearances in English football, but will most fondly remembered for the six seasons he spent across two separate spells with QPR.

Having initially joined from Plymouth ahead of 2010-2011, Mackie enjoyed promotion during his first campaign at Loftus Road - scoring nine times in 29 outings, including eight in his first eight as Neil Warnock's side romped to the Championship title.

However, in an FA Cup tie at Blackburn in January 2011, the striker suffered a double tibia/fibula break, and would spend more than seven months on the sidelines.

Mackie's return was a disastrous 6-0 defeat at neighbours Fulham on his Premier League debut, but he'd score an impressive eight goals in 31 league games as QPR survived on the final day in the famous Sergio Aguero match, which saw City crowned champions.

 

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Following just two topflight goals the next season, Mackie was sold to Nottingham Forest after QPR were relegated back to the Championship.

He'd struggle at the City Ground and then on loan at Reading, netting just nine times in almost 90 appearances, before returning to West London in the summer of 2015.

But Mackie was plagued with injuries during his second spell, and after three further seasons with QPR, he was released after featuring less than 60 times - with his final outing for the R's coming in a 3-1 success over Birmingham in late-April.

However, it wasn't long before the 35-year-old had found his ninth and final club of his career - joining League One side Oxford United ahead of the 2018-19 campaign.

And whilst Mackie's struggles in front of goal continued at the Kassam Stadium, scoring just eight times in just less than 100 matches, his experience proved a vital cog in the Oxford machine that were 90 minutes away from promotion to the Championship for the first time, although he was an unused substitute in their play-off final defeat to Wycombe.

It meant that Mackie's final first-team outing of his career came in the penalty shoot-out victory over Portsmouth in the play-off semi-finals.

That's because just more than one week after Oxford's Wembley heartache, Mackie announced his retirement from football at the age of 34, after more than 17 years in the professional game.