Terry Armstrong Explained

Terry Armstrong
Fullname:Terence Armstrong
Birth Date:10 July 1958
Birth Place:Barnsley, England
Height:[1]
Position:Midfielder
Years1:1976–1980
Clubs1:Huddersfield Town
Caps1:40
Goals1:2
Years2:1980–1985
Clubs2:Port Vale
Caps2:116
Goals2:12
Clubs4:Northwich Victoria
Totalcaps:156+
Totalgoals:14+

Terence Armstrong (born 10 July 1958) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder for Huddersfield Town and Port Vale in a nine-year career in the Football League. He helped Port Vale to win promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1982–83. He later played non-League football for Nuneaton Borough and Northwich Victoria.

Career

Armstrong played for Huddersfield Town, and made four Fourth Division appearances in the 1976–77 season. He made 19 appearances in the 1977–78 season, and scored once in a 4–1 win over Doncaster Rovers at Leeds Road on 1 October. Manager Tom Johnston was then replaced by Mick Buxton. However, Armstrong continued to make progress in the first-team, starting 15 league games in 1978–79 and scoring once in a 2–1 home win over AFC Bournemouth on 13 March. However, he did not feature at all in the title-winning 1979–80 campaign, and was also absent throughout the 1980–81 season, before signing with Fourth Division Port Vale in February 1981.[2]

Armstrong made 17 appearances for the "Valiants" at the end of the 1980–81 campaign, and claimed goals against Hereford United and Peterborough United.[2] He featured 42 times in the 1981–82 season, scoring goals against Hartlepool United and Lincoln City.[2] He scored seven goals in 45 games in the 1982–83 promotion campaign, including a brace in a 4–1 win over Mansfield Town at Vale Park.[2] However, he and numerous other players fell out with manager John McGrath over player wages, and as a result Armstrong, Barry Siddall, Russell Bromage, and Geoff Hunter all remained on weekly contracts.[2] Armstrong hit two goals in 21 matches in the 1983–84 season as Vale were relegated out of the Third Division, despite an upturn in form under new boss John Rudge.[2] Armstrong began to be plagued by a nagging knee injury, which required a cartilage operation.[2] His injury kept him limited to just six appearances in the 1984–85 campaign, and he left the club on a free transfer to non-League Nuneaton Borough in May 1985, later moving on to Alliance Premier League rivals Northwich Victoria.[2]

Post-retirement

In April 2003, he lost his job as a prison warder at Wakefield Prison after he was jailed for 28 days for sending sexually explicit material to the husband of his former lover. This act was in breach of a restraining order.[3] He also graffitied a motorway bridge as an insult to the husband of his former lover.

Career statistics

Source:

ClubSeasonDivisionLeagueFA CupOtherTotal
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Huddersfield Town1976–77Fourth Division40000040
1977–78Fourth Division1910000191
1978–79Fourth Division1710000171
Total4020000402
Port Vale1980–81Fourth Division1720000172
1981–82Fourth Division3315130412
1982–83Fourth Division4271020457
1983–84Third Division1921010212
1984–85Fourth Division40002060
Total11612718013113
Career total15614718017115

Honours

Port Vale

Notes and References

  1. Book: Rollin . Jack . Rothmans football yearbook . 1980 . Queen Anne Press . London . 0362020175 . 198. 14 April 2020.
  2. Book: Kent, Jeff. Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. 8. 1996. 0-9529152-0-0.
  3. Web site: Prison warder jailed. 28 April 2003. BBC News. 19 January 2011.
  4. Book: Kent, Jeff. The Valiants' Years: The Story Of Port Vale. Witan Books. 1990. 258–290. From Rags to Riches (1979–1990). 0-9508981-4-7.