Terry Darracott

Terry Darracott (6 October 1950 – 22 March 2022) was an English professional footballer who played as a left back for Everton and Wrexham in the Football League and for the Tulsa Roughnecks in the North American Soccer League.[1]

Terry Darracott
Personal information
Date of birth (1950-12-06)6 December 1950
Place of birth Edge Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Date of death 22 March 2022(2022-03-22) (aged 71)
Position(s) Left-back
Youth career
Everton
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1967–1979 Everton 148 (0)
1979 Tulsa Roughnecks 29 (1)
1979–1980 Wrexham 22 (0)
Total 199 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

On retiring as a player he held coaching positions at Everton, Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers, and was employed as a European scout for Bolton Wanderers.[2][3]

In October 2008, Darracott joined Wrexham as assistant to manager Dean Saunders, with whom he had worked at Blackburn.[2] Restricted mobility due to a hip problem forced him to leave Wrexham a year later, and he returned to scouting for Bolton.[4]

He provided opposition analysis as part of Hull City's scouting team.

Darracott died on 22 March 2022, at the age of 71.[5][6][7]

References
  1. "Terry Darracott". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
  2. Currie, Mark (6 October 2008). "Terry Darracott is new Wrexham FC assistant". Daily Post. North Wales. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
  3. "On this day - 06th December". Everton F.C. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
  4. Bicknell, Gareth (22 October 2009). "Injury ends Terry Darracott's Wrexham FC coaching career". Daily Post. North Wales. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
  5. "Former Everton player and coach Terry Darracott dies aged 71". BT Group. 23 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  6. "The obituary notice of Terence Michael DARRACOTT". funeral-notices.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  7. "Terry Darracott obituary". The Times. 16 April 2022. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
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