Tony Kay	Everton FC 1 appearance, 1 debut goal P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F 8: A 1 100% successful 1962-63 disciplined: none Captain: none minutes played: 90
Profile
Full name	Anthony Herbert Kay
Born	13 May 1937 in Attercliffe, Sheffield [registered in Sheffield, June 1937].
Married	to Marina Platts [registered in Sheffield, September 1957].
Height/Weight	5' 7½", 12st. 0lbs [1963].
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com
Club Career
Club(s)	Played junior football around Sheffield before earning a trial with Sheffield Wednesday FC, becoming part of the groundstaff in 1952, turning professional in May 1954. After 179 League appearances, and ten goals, Kay became Britain's most expensive footballer when he moved to Everton FC in December 1962 for ö60,000. He remained until April 1964, he never played football again after The Sunday People revealed his match-fixing involvement on 12 April 1961. Sentenced to prison in January 1965. He completed 57 Toffee league appearances, scoring four times.
Club honours	Football League Division Two winners 1958-59; Football League Champions 1962-63;
Individual honours	Football League (seven appearances)
Distinctions	None
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].
England Career
Player number	823rd player to appear for England.
Position(s)	Right-half
Only match	No. 371, 5 June 1963, Switzerland 1 England 8, an end-of season tour at Sankt Jakob Stadium, Basel, aged 26 years 23 days.
Major tournaments	World Cup Finals 1962 (provisional squad)
Team honours	None
Individual honours	None
Distinctions	None
England Disgrace
While at Sheffield Wednesday FC, he and two team-mates placed a bet on a match in 1962 against Ipswich Town FC, which eventually led to jail terms and life bans from the game. Also spent twelve years in Spain after selling a diamond that turned out to be a fake. - The Observer Sport
Beyond England
His football career came to an abrubt end when he was sent to prison in January 1965 for four months, of which he served ten weeks in an open prison in Leeds. The Football Association banned him for life from football, but this was rescinded after seven years. Kay never returned to football, but in fact ended up in Spain and then South London. - Daily Telegraph

Tony Kay - Match History
Club: Sheffield Wednesday F.C. - 0 full caps manager: Walter Winterbottom - 0 full capsx
Age 24
FIFA set a deadline of April 10 1962 for preliminary lists of forty players to be submitted. England's selectors produced theirs, two days early. Following England's defeat by Scotland at Hampden Park, the squad was whittled down to 22 names on April 15, with 18 names excluded including Tony Kay.
Club: Everton F.C. - 1 full cap Coach: Alf Ramsey - 1 full capx
Age 26
-	369	29 May 1963 - Czechoslovakia 2 England 4, Tehelné pole, Bratislava	tour	AW	squad/reserve
-	370	2 June 1963 - GDR 1 England 2, Zentralstadion, Leipzig		AW
1	371	5 June 1963 - Switzerland 1 England 8, Sankt Jakob Stadium, Basel		AW	Start	4
-	373	23 October 1963 - England 2 Rest of the World 1, Empire Stadium, Wembley	Fr	HW	reserve

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