Tommy Casey

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Tommy Casey
Tommy Casey, Newcastle United.jpg
Casey as a Newcastle United player
Personal information
Full name Thomas Casey
Date of birth (1930-03-11)11 March 1930
Place of birth Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland
Date of death 13 January 2009(2009-01-13) (aged 78)
Place of death Somerset, England
Position(s) Wing half
Youth career
Belfast YMCA
East Belfast
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
0000–1949 Bangor
1949–1950 Leeds United 4 (0)
1950–1952 Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic 66 (1)
1952–1958 Newcastle United 116 (8)
1958–1959 Portsmouth 24 (1)
1959–1963 Bristol City 122 (9)
1963–1965 Gloucester City 60 (6)
1965
1967 Ammanford Town
National team
1955–1958 Northern Ireland 12 (2)
Teams managed
1963–1965 Gloucester City (player-manager)
1967–1969 Lisburn Distillery (player-manager)
1972 Everton (caretaker-manager)
1974–1975 Northern Ireland Youth Team
1975–1976 Grimsby Town
1977 K.R. Reykjavik
1977–1978 Harstad I.L.
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Thomas Casey (11 March 1930 – 13 January 2009) was a Northern Ireland international footballer, coach and football manager, whose career in professional football spanned 30 years.[1][2]

In 1965, he played abroad in the Eastern Canada Professional Soccer League with Toronto Inter-Roma.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Ponting, Ivan (14 March 2009). "Tommy Casey: Wing-half who won the FA Cup with Newcastle and played in the 1958 World Cup for Northern Ireland". The Independent. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
  2. ^ Northern Ireland's Footballing Greats: Tommy Casey
  3. ^ "Crosswords". Newspapers.com. The Province. April 26, 1965. p. 15. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
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