Trevor Long

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Trevor Long
Personal information
Full name Trevor George Long
Date of birth (1931-07-01)1 July 1931
Place of birth Smethwick, England
Date of death 15 November 2006(2006-11-15) (aged 75)[1]
Place of death Bideford,[1] England
Height 5"8
Position(s) Winger
Youth career
Smethwick Schoolboys
Birmingham County Schoolboys
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Mitchells & Butlers
1950–1952 Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 (0)
1952–1955 Gillingham 67 (15)
1955–1956 Reading 13 (5)
1956 Yeovil Town 52 (16)
National team
– England Junior International
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Trevor George Long (1 July 1931 – 15 November 2006) was an English professional footballer. His clubs included Wolverhampton Wanderers, Reading and Gillingham.[2] He made 79 Football League appearances,[3] and later played for Yeovil Town in the Southern Football League as a semi-professional.

Playing career[]

Long first represented Mitchells and Butlers in the Birmingham Works Football League. He signed as a 16-year-old amateur with Wolverhampton Wanderers and served two seasons as a professional having been encouraged to sign professional terms by manager Stan Cullis when he was 19-years-old. His time with the club coincided with his national service which he completed at RAF Stafford. In the 1951-52 season he featured 28 times for Wolves in The Central League and was part of the team that won the 1951-52 title.

In July, 1952, he transferred to Gillingham of the Football League Third Division South, who, in 1950, were voted in to the Football League when it expanded from 88 teams to 92. During his first season at Priestfield he was joint top scorer contributing 10 goals in 34 appearances and scored 1 goal in 3 FA Cup appearances. This made him the club's joint leading league goal scorer with Ken Lambert. In 1953-54 he made 26 league appearances scoring 4 goals and in 1954-55 he represented Gillingham 7 times.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Trevor Long". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  2. ^ Triggs, Roger (2001). The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club. Tempus Publishing Ltd. p. 203. ISBN 0-7524-2243-X.
  3. ^ "Trevor Long". Reading FC Former Players Association. Reading FC Former Players Association. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  4. ^ Triggs, Roger (1988). Priestfield Profiles: Who's Who of Gillingham's Football League Players, 1950-88. Roger Triggs. ISBN 0951409204.


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