Ray Price (footballer) explained

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.

Career

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Colchester United – Player profile . Coludata.co.uk . 29 May 2013 . dead . https://archive.today/20130707020343/http://coludata.co.uk/player.asp?pid=263 . 7 July 2013 . dmy-all .
  2. Book: Whitehead . Jeff . Drury . Kevin . The Who's Who of Colchester United: The Layer Road Years . 2008 . Breedon Books . Derby . 978-1-85983-629-3 . 194, 195.
  3. Web site: SING UP THE RIVER END!: Debutants 1964 . Sing Up The River End! . 29 May 2013.
  4. Web site: Colchester United – Match details – Oldham Athletic 3–1 Colchester Utd . Coludata.co.uk . 29 May 2013 . dead . https://archive.today/20130707023740/http://coludata.co.uk/matchdetails.asp?mid=1077 . 7 July 2013 . dmy-all .
  5. Web site: RAY PRICE . Post War English & Scottish Football League A – Z Player's Database . 29 May 2013.
  6. Web site: Colchester United – Match details – Colchester Utd 0–0 Gillingham . https://archive.today/20130707030550/http://coludata.co.uk/matchdetails.asp?mid=1177 . dead . 7 July 2013 . Coludata.co.uk . 29 May 2013 .