Ray Price | |
Fullname: | Raymond Price[1] |
Birth Date: | 1944 5, df=y |
Birth Place: | Hetton-le-Hole, England |
Death Place: | Grimsby, England[2] |
Height: | 5 ft 10+1/2 in |
Position: | Full-back |
Youthclubs1: | Norwich City |
Years1: | 1963–1964 |
Clubs1: | Norwich City |
Caps1: | 1 |
Goals1: | 0 |
Years2: | 1964–1967 |
Caps2: | 17 |
Goals2: | 0 |
Clubs3: | Chelmsford City |
Totalcaps: | 18 |
Totalgoals: | 0 |
Raymond Price (18 May 1944 – 18 November 1990) was an English footballer who played in the Football League as a full-back for Norwich City and Colchester United.
Born in Hetton-le-Hole, Price began his career as a junior at Norwich City where he made one Football League appearance on 29 February 1964 in a 2–1 away defeat to Derby County,[3] replacing regular left-back Joe Mullett who was suffering from tonsillitis.[2]
Price moved to Colchester United in the summer of 1964.[2] After making his debut on 6 February 1965 in a 3–1 defeat to Oldham Athletic at Boundary Park,[4] he failed to establish himself in the first-team, with his most notable contribution being the first-ever substitute used by the U's when he came on for Ted Phillips in a 2–0 home win over Rochdale on 19 September 1965.[2] He made 17 appearances for the club,[5] with his final game a 0–0 draw with Gillingham on 11 March 1967.[6]
Released in the summer of 1967, Price joined Chelmsford City before returning to Norwich to set up a successful badminton club. He then relocated to Lincolnshire where he was working as an insurance salesman when he suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 46.[2]