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Tony Kay |
Sheffield
Wednesday FC, Everton FC
1 appearance, 1 debut goal
P 1 W 1 D
0 L 0 F 8: A 1
100% successful
1961-63
disciplined: none
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Anthony Herbert Kay |
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Birth |
13 May 1937 in Attercliffe, Sheffield, West
Riding of Yorkshire [registered in
Sheffield, June 1937]. |
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Marriage |
to Marina Platts [registered in
Sheffield, September 1957]. |
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Height/Weight |
5'
7½", 12st.
0lbs [1963]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com |
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Club Career |
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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 £60,000. He remained until April
1964, he never played football again after The Sunday
People revealed his match-fixing involvement on 12
April 1964. Sentenced to prison in January 1965. He completed 57
Toffee league appearances, scoring four times. |
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Club honours |
Football
League Division Two winners 1958-59; Football League
Champions 1962-63; |
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Individual honours |
Football
League (seven appearances) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
823rd
player to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Right-half |
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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.
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Major tournaments |
World Cup Finals 1962 (provisional squad) |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
England U23 (seven appearances, 1959-60) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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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 |
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Beyond England |
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His football career came to an abrupt 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 |
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The Numbers |
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parties |
Appearances |
unused/
reserve |
minutes |
Goals |
captain |
| 4 |
1 |
1 |
90 |
0 |
none |
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minutes are an approximation, due to the fact that many matches rarely stick to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time for injuries and errors. |
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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts
% |
W/L |
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1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
1 |
+7 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
1 |
100 |
+1 |
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His only match was played at an away venue, in a white shirt and was
a friendly match |
Match History
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Club: Sheffield
Wednesday F.C. -
no full appearances |
manager:
Walter
Winterbottom - one full appearance (90 min)x |
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Age 23 |
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Tony Kay was a member of the last of the Winter 1960 get-togethers,
at
Upton Park on 13-15 March 1961. |
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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. |
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Club: Everton F.C. -
one full appearance (90 min) |
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match |
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rundown |
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