Tommy Casey

Summary

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]

Tommy Casey
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 Toronto Inter-Roma
1967 Ammanford Town
International career
1955–1958 Northern Ireland 12 (2)
Managerial career
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.
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

FA Cup winner with Newcastle United 1955

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

References edit

  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. 26 April 1965. p. 15. Retrieved 22 August 2020.