Jimmy Dailey Explained

Jimmy Dailey
Fullname:James Dailey
Birth Date:8 September 1927
Birth Place:Glenboig, Scotland
Death Place:Weymouth, England
Position:Centre forward
Youthyears1:1943–1945
Youthclubs1:Wolverhampton Wanderers
Years1:1945–1946
Clubs1:Third Lanark
Years2:1946–1949
Caps2:37
Goals2:24
Years3:1949–1952
Caps3:41
Goals3:14
Years4:1952–1953
Clubs4:Exeter City
Caps4:45
Goals4:13
Years5:1953–1957
Clubs5:Workington
Caps5:176
Goals5:74
Years6:1957–1959
Clubs6:Rochdale
Caps6:53
Goals6:25
Years7:1959–1961
Clubs7:Weymouth
Caps7:53
Goals7:41
Years8:1961–19??
Clubs8:Bath City
Clubs9:Poole Town
Clubs10:Bridport
Managerclubs1:Portland United
Manageryears2:
Managerclubs2:Dorchester Town

James Dailey (8 September 1927 – January 2002) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre forward.

Biography

Dailey was born in Glenboig, Lanarkshire. He began his football career during the Second World War as an amateur with Wolverhampton Wanderers. After the war he returned home and signed for Third Lanark. When he arrived at Sheffield Wednesday from Scotland as an 18-year-old, the team were struggling. He scored seven goals in his first eight games to start their recovery.[1] At the start of the following season he scored ten in seven weeks, including all five in a 5–2 defeat of Barnsley,[2] but the club preferred Eddie Quigley and Clarrie Jordan.

Dailey moved to Birmingham City for a not inconsiderable fee of £10,000[3] in February 1949. The next season, 1949–50, he was top scorer with nine goals in 23 games for a poor side which finished at the bottom of the table, but after that he rarely played.

After leaving Birmingham he went on to score freely in the lower divisions, notably with 74 goals in 176 League games for Workington, including a club all-time record 26 in 1956–57.[4] At Rochdale he scored a goal every other game, which contributed to the club being placed in the Third Division on goal average when the Football League was reorganised in 1958.[5]

Dailey later played non-League football in the south-west of England and managed Portland United and Dorchester Town. After leaving football he ran a sports shop in Weymouth. He retired to Spain but returned in 2001 due to ill health, and died in Weymouth in January 2002, at the age of 74.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Complete History: The War and Other Catastrophes . Sheffield Wednesday F.C. . https://web.archive.org/web/20070812081021/http://www.swfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/HistoryDetail/0%2C%2C10304~65722%2C00.html . 12 August 2007 . dead.
  2. Web site: Season 1947–1948 . The Sheffield Wednesday Archive . Stuart Jackson . Adrian Bullock . 29 August 2007.
  3. News: Death of former Terras striker . Bournemouth Echo . 18 January 2002 . 16 July 2015.
  4. Web site: Club History . The Popular Side . https://web.archive.org/web/20070907091743/http://www.workingtonreds.co.uk/history.asp . 7 September 2007.
  5. Web site: Club history . Rochdale A.F.C. . https://web.archive.org/web/20080509123451/http://www.rochdaleafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/History/0%2C%2C10441%2C00.html . 9 May 2008 . dead.