| Jocky Wright | |
| Fullname: | John Wright[1] |
| Birth Date: | 4 February 1873 |
| Birth Place: | Hamilton, Scotland |
| Death Date: | 1946 (aged 72–73) |
| Death Place: | Southend-on-Sea, England |
| Position: | Inside forward |
| Years1: | 1892–1893 |
| Years2: | 1893–1894 |
| Clubs2: | Motherwell |
| Caps2: | 7 |
| Goals2: | 1 |
| Years3: | 1894 |
| Years4: | 1894–1895 |
| Clubs4: | Clyde |
| Caps4: | 18 |
| Goals4: | 4 |
| Years5: | 1895–1898 |
| Caps5: | 85 |
| Goals5: | 14 |
| Years6: | 1898–1902 |
| Caps6: | 103 |
| Goals6: | 42 |
| Years7: | 1902 |
| Caps7: | 3 |
| Goals7: | 1 |
| Years8: | 1902–1904 |
| Caps8: | 34 |
| Goals8: | 5 |
| Years9: | 1904–1907 |
| Caps9: | 107 |
| Goals9: | 17 |
| Years10: | 1907–1908 |
| Clubs10: | Watford |
| Caps10: | 27 |
| Goals10: | 0 |
| Years11: | 1908–1910 |
| Caps11: | 56 |
| Goals11: | 10 |
| Totalcaps: | 440 |
| Totalgoals: | 94 |
John Wright (4 February 1873 – 1946) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Bolton Wanderers and The Wednesday, and the Southern League for Plymouth Argyle, Watford and Southend United.[2] [3] He was an inside forward.[1]
Wright was born in Hamilton.[1] [3] He began his career with Hamilton Academical[4] and played for Motherwell during their first Scottish Football League campaign[5] before returning to Hamilton (who had yet to join the SFL).[3] He then moved to Clyde, where he made 18 league appearances and scored four goals.[3] [6]
Wright switched to English football when he joined Bolton Wanderers in June 1895, and played regularly in his first three seasons with the club.[3] He was transferred to The Wednesday in November 1898 having scored 14 league goals in 85 games for Bolton.[2] [3] In his second season with Wednesday (1899–1900), Wright was the club's leading goalscorer and received a Football League Second Division winner's medal.[3] He scored 42 goals in 103 league appearances for Wednesday[1] [2] (and 110 and 43 including FA Cup ties).[7]
He returned to Hamilton in September 1902[4] and then re-signed with Bolton the following month.[3] In two more seasons with the club, Wright played in 34 league games and scored five times.[1] Wright left the club in May 1904 and joined Plymouth Argyle,[2] [8] where he won the Western League First Division title in his second season.[2] A club handbook states that Wright was "always clever, frequently brilliant and has never been known to play a bad game."[2] He made 110 appearances for Argyle in all competitions and scored 17 goals before moving to Watford in May 1907.[2] [3] Wright played in 27 league games without scoring and then joined Southend United in May 1908.[3]
In two seasons with Southend, he scored ten goals in 56 league appearances.[3] Wright became the club's reserve team trainer in 1913 and went on to coach in the local area.[3] Wright died in Southend-on-Sea in 1946.[3]
He had two sons who were also footballers: Billy Wright played for Bolton and for Reading;[9] Doug Wright played mainly for Newcastle United and Lincoln City, and was capped by England in 1938.[4] [10]