Jackie Bray

Jackie Bray
Personnel
Surname	John Bray
birthday	April 22, 1909
place of birth	Oswaldtwistle ,  England
date of death	November 20, 1982
Place of death	Blackburn ,  England
position	External rotor (left)
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Clayton Olympia
	Manchester Central
1929-1946	Manchester City	257 (10)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1934-1937	England	6 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1947-1948	Watford FC
1 Only league games are given.

John "Jackie" Bray (born April 22, 1909 in Oswaldtwistle , † November 20, 1982 in Blackburn ) was an English football player and coach . As a left wing runner , he was active with Manchester City in the 1930s . There he celebrated his greatest successes by winning the FA Cup in 1934 and the English championship in 1937 .

Athletic career

Bray first played for Clayton Olympia and then at Manchester Central , a short-lived professional club in Manchester, before joining Manchester City in October 1929 for a transfer fee of £ 1,000. He made his league debut in the derby against United on February 8, 1930 , which ended with a 0-1 defeat, but ultimately he finished his first season with the "Citziens" in third place.

In the position of the left outer rotor , he quickly developed a good reputation. His strengths lay in a high willingness to run and the ability to often switch to attacking games. From then on, his team's form curve showed down with eighth place in 1931 , 14th place in 1932 and 18th place in 1933 , but good results were achieved in the FA Cup . In both 1933 and 1934 he moved into the final of the English Cup. There he and his men lost 3-0 in the first final against Everton , but the following year he won the first major trophy of his career with a 2-1 win against Leicester City . In the championship, too, things went up again in 1934 with fifth place . In the years 1934 to 1937 Bray established himself with Manchester City in the upper half of the table. In addition, he played six full international matches for England between September 1934 and April 1937 - the last game against Scotland (1: 3) took place on April 17, 1937 in front of almost 150,000 spectators in Hampden Park . The highlight was winning the English championship in 1937 and he completed 40 of 42 games. This success was soon followed by a disappointment, because only a year later, Manchester City surprisingly rose as reigning champions in the second division . After the outbreak of World War II, official gaming operations were suspended and Bray served in the Royal Air Force . In football, he only played unofficial games until his resignation in March 1946. He acted in 181 games for City and as a guest player for Port Vale , Crewe Alexandra , Blackburn Rovers and Nottingham Forest .

Bray then switched to coaching, but had only one prominent station as head coach with Watford FC . The stay there as the successor to Bill Findlay was from March 1947 to January 1948 of short duration and during his time the "Hornets" won only eleven of 40 games before he was replaced by Eddie Hapgood . Bray, who also played for Accrington cricket , later worked on the coaching staff of Nelson FC .

Title / Awards

• English Championship (1): 1937
• English Cup (1): 1934
• Charity Shield (1): 1937

Web links

• Statistics currently at Manchester City
• List of international matches

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Some sources put the total number of games at 260; the three missions of the Football League season 1939/40, which was subsequently suspended because of the Second World War, were subsequently canceled from the official statistics.
2. ↑ "Manchester City: Player by Player" (Google eBook)