Frank D'Arcy

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Frank D'Arcy
Personnel
Surname Frank A. D'Arcy
birthday December 8, 1946
place of birth Liverpool ,  England
position Full-back (left)
Juniors
Years station
Everton FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1964-1972 Everton FC 16 (0)
1972-1973 Tranmere Rovers 8 (1)
Kirkby Town
1 Only league games are given.

Frank A. D'Arcy (born December 8, 1946 in Liverpool ) is a retired English football player . Mostly used as a left full -back, he was in the extended squad of Everton FC , which won the English championship in 1970 . A real sporting breakthrough was denied to him there as well as in his subsequent short guest appearance at Tranmere Rovers .

Athletic career

The short professional career of the Liverpool “home grown” began in the youth department of Everton FC . There he completed his first professional league game against Leeds United after being promoted to the professional squad in August 1964 in the 1965/66 season . The game ended with a 1: 4 defeat and coach Harry Catterick had brought his "B-team" and consequently none of the eleven regular players onto the field a week before the important FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United . D'Arcy was on the left back of the "Toffees" as a replacement for Ray Wilson and Sandy Brown, who had moved to the right . For his next chances he waited as “number 3” in this position until the season 1967/68, when he completed four more matches. Subsequently, his role was mostly limited to that of substitute and on the way to the English league title in 1970 he came in this role on five missions - two of them on the last two league days when the championship was already decided. Two more years later and without having played in a competitive game in the first team in the 1971/72 season, D'Arcy moved in July 1972 to the nearby third-rate Tranmere Rovers .

In the team supervised by Ron Yeats , however, he did not succeed in the sporting breakthrough, although he came to eight league games in the 1972/73 season - mostly acting in midfield. He scored his first and only goal as a professional footballer during the last appearance against Brentford FC (6: 2). After a year D'Arcy left Tranmere again and thus ended his active professional career. Later he went to the sport only in the lower leagues at small clubs like Kirkby Town .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Barry J. Hugman: Football League Players Records 1946-92. P. 148 (in online sources sometimes as "Francis Anthony d'Arcy")
  2. ^ Ivan Ponting: Everton Player by Player . Hamlyn, London 1998, ISBN 0-600-59581-1 , pp. 66 .
  3. ^ Gilbert Upton, Steve Wilson, Peter Bishop: Tranmere Rovers - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 2009, ISBN 978-1-85983-711-5 , pp. 364 f .
personal data
SURNAME D'Arcy, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES D'Arcy, Frank A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool