Johnny Byrne

Johnny "Budgie" Byrne
John 'Budgie' Byrne as manager of Hellenic FC in Cape Town, South Africa in the early 1970s
Personnel
Surname	John Joseph Byrne
birthday	May 13, 1939
place of birth	West Horsley ,  England
date of death	October 27, 1999
Place of death	South Africa
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	Epsom Town
	Guildford City
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1956-1952	Crystal Palace	203 (85)
1962-1967	West Ham United	156 (79)
1967-1969	Crystal Palace	36 0(5)
1969-1970	Fulham FC	19 0(2)
1970-1972	Durban City
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1961-1965	England	11 (8)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	Durban City
1 Only league games are given.

John Joseph (Johnny) "Budgie" Byrne (born May 13, 1939 in West Horsley , † October 27, 1999 in South Africa ) was an English football player on the position of the striker .

Career

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1956 to 1962: Crystal Palace

Byrne played in the youth only for Epsom Town and then at Guildford City before from a Crystal Palace - Scout was discovered and there signed a professional contract on his 17th birthday. During the next two years he became a regular at the then fourth division, in his first season he scored one goal in 14 games, in the second he scored seven goals in 29 games. 1960/61 Palace rose to the third division, with Byrne having 31 goals (in 45 games) large share.

1962 to 1967: West Ham

Shortly after his first international match, he was signed by Ron Greenwood for the then English record transfer of £ 60,000 from West Ham , and Palace received striker Ron Brett as additional compensation .

In 1963/64 he won the FA Cup with the Hammers (3-2 against Preston North End in the final) and in the same season was voted Player of the Year at West Ham by fans, despite the presence of eventual world champions Bobby Moore , Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters .

A year later, he won the now defunct European Cup Winners' Cup , but at that time one of the most important international trophies. However, Byrne could not take part in the final due to an injury.

1967 to 1969: return to Palace

In the winter of 1967, Byrne returned to his old club, Crystal Palace , and scored six goals in 39 games over the next year and a half, bringing his Palace goals record to a total of 101 goals in 259 games, the seventh highest score of any Palace scorer.

1969/70: Fulham

For the 1969/70 season Byrne moved within London to Fulham , where he completed 19 games (2 goals) in his only season.

1970 to 1972: Durban City

He then moved to South Africa together with his Fulham teammates Bobby Keats and Johnny Haynes , where he played for three years at the now defunct club Durban City .

National team

In November 1961 he became one of only five English internationals to date who played outside the first two leagues when he played his first international match against Northern Ireland (1-1). In his second game for England in 1963 against Switzerland, he scored his first two goals in the national dress in an 8-1 win.

From then on, Byrne was used regularly and scored three goals in a 4-3 win against Portugal in May 1964 , but the then English national coach Alf Ramsey did not appoint him to the squad for the 1966 World Cup .

Byrne played his last game for England on April 10, 1965 against Scotland . Of eleven international matches (eight goals) he was able to win five, three ended in a draw and three were lost.

After the playing career

Byrne stayed in South Africa for the rest of his life and coached various South African clubs after his playing career. a. his ex-club Durban.

He died in South Africa in 1999 at the age of 60.

Web links

• Johnny Byrne in the database of weltfussball.de
• Full report on Byrne's career
• Brief summary of his time at Crystal Palace