Gordon Byron

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Gordon Byron
Personnel
Surname Gordon Frank Byron
birthday 4th September 1953
place of birth Prescot ,  England
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
Huyton Boys
0000-1971 Sheffield Wednesday
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1971-1974 Sheffield Wednesday 0 (0)
1974-1975 Lincoln City 6 (0)
1975 Clifton Town
1975–? Skegness Town
Lincoln United
1 Only league games are given.

Gordon Frank Byron (born September 4, 1953 in Prescot ) is a retired English football player .

Career

Byron was one of the early 1970s as Apprentice (dt. Trainee) Sheffield Wednesday in 1971 he got there to the professional and was captain of the youth team. Without a competitive game in the professional team of the second division, he moved to Lincoln City in 1974 in the fourth division . There the midfielder came in the course of the season 1974/75 under coach Graham Taylor to six league and four FA Cup appearances; a total of six of them in the starting line-up, mostly when Dennis Booth was used more offensively. He was part of the starting line-up for the FA Cup victories won in the replay against Port Vale (final score 2: 0) and against league rivals Hartlepool (1: 0).

At the end of the season he left the club and still played in non-league football , first a few months for Clifton Town and then for Skegness Town in the Midland League . After he had emigrated to Australia in the meantime , he appeared in the 1980/81 season for Lincoln United in the Yorkshire League .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gordon Byron in the database of barryhugmansfootballers.com (English). Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ↑ Young Blues fight off late Sheffield rally . In: Liverpool Echo , December 23, 1971, p. 13.  (paid link)
  3. ↑ cf. Ian Nannestad, Donald Nannestad: Lincoln City FC The Official History . Yore Publications, Harefield 1997, ISBN 978-1-874427-47-6 .
  4. ^ Donald Nannestad, Ian Nannestad: Who's Who of Lincoln City, 1892-1994 . Yore Publications, Harefield 1994, ISBN 978-1-874427-90-2 , pp. 33 .
personal data
SURNAME Byron, Gordon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Byron, Gordon Frank (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Prescot