Jimmy Dailey

James Dailey (8 September 1927 – January 2002) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre forward.

For those with a similar name, see James Daly (disambiguation). For the cricketer, see Jimmy Daley. For the Irish footballer, see Jimmy Daly.

Jimmy Dailey
Personal information
Full name James Dailey
Date of birth (1927-09-08)8 September 1927
Place of birth Glenboig, Scotland
Date of death January 2002(2002-01-00) (aged 74)
Place of death Weymouth, England
Position(s) Centre forward
Youth career
1943–1945 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1945–1946 Third Lanark
1946–1949 Sheffield Wednesday 37 (24)
1949–1952 Birmingham City 41 (14)
1952–1953 Exeter City 45 (13)
1953–1957 Workington 176 (74)
1957–1959 Rochdale 53 (25)
1959–1961 Weymouth (42)
1961–19?? Bath City
Poole Town
Bridport
Managerial career
Portland United
– Dorchester Town
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Biography

Dailey was born in Glenboig, Lanarkshire. He began his football career during the Second World War as an amateur with Wolverhampton Wanderers. After the war he returned home and signed for Third Lanark. When he arrived at Sheffield Wednesday from Scotland as an 18-year-old, the team were struggling. He scored seven goals in his first eight games to start their recovery.[1] At the start of the following season he scored ten in seven weeks, including all five in a 5–2 defeat of Barnsley,[2] but the club preferred Eddie Quigley and Clarrie Jordan.

Dailey moved to Birmingham City for a not inconsiderable fee of £10,000[3] in February 1949. The next season, 1949–50, he was top scorer with nine goals in 23 games for a poor side which finished at the bottom of the table, but after that he rarely played.

After leaving Birmingham he went on to score freely in the lower divisions, notably with 74 goals in 176 League games for Workington, including a club all-time record 26 in 1956–57.[4] At Rochdale he scored a goal every other game, which contributed to the club being placed in the Third Division on goal average when the Football League was reorganised in 1958.[5]

Dailey later played non-League football in the south-west of England and managed Portland United and Dorchester Town. After leaving football he ran a sports shop in Weymouth. He retired to Spain but returned in 2001 due to ill health, and died in Weymouth in January 2002, at the age of 74.[3]

Honours
  • with Birmingham City
    • Club's top scorer (9) 1950
  • with Workington
    • Club's top scorer (26) 1957
  • with Weymouth
    • Club's top scorer (31) 1959

Notes and references
  • Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Breedon Books. ISBN 1-85983-010-2.
  • "Neil Brown's statistics site".
  1. "Complete History: The War and Other Catastrophes". Sheffield Wednesday F.C. Archived from the original on 12 August 2007.
  2. Stuart Jackson. "Season 1947–1948". The Sheffield Wednesday Archive. Adrian Bullock. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  3. "Death of former Terras striker". Bournemouth Echo. 18 January 2002. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  4. "Club History". The Popular Side. Archived from the original on 7 September 2007.
  5. "Club history". Rochdale A.F.C. Archived from the original on 9 May 2008.
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