Norman Deeley

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Norman Deeley
Personnel
Surname Norman Victor Deeley
birthday November 30, 1933
place of birth Wednesbury ,  England
date of death September 3, 2007
Place of death Wednesbury ,  England
size 163 cm
position Right winger
Juniors
Years station
1948-1951 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1951-1962 Wolverhampton Wanderers 206 (66)
1962-1964 Leyton Orient 73 0(9)
1964-1967 Worcester City
1967-1971 Bromsgrove Rovers
1971-1972 Darlaston FC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1959 England 2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Norman Victor Deeley (born November 30, 1933 in Wednesbury , † September 3, 2007 ibid) was an English football player . The only 1.63 meter tall winger won the English championship with Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1958 and 1959 - and the FA Cup in 1960 - and played two international matches for England .

Athletic career

Instead of joining the West Bromwich Albion club, loved by his father , Norman Deeley was hired by rival Wolverhampton Wanderers when he was a schoolboy , and at the age of only 16 he made his first games on the reserve team. Before that, he had already drawn attention to himself in the national school team and with a height of just over 1.30 meters he only appeared to be “lost among giants”, as he compensated for this deficiency with technical skills. In December 1950 he signed his first professional contract with the "Wolves" and as a right wing runner , who was Deeley at the beginning of his career, he made his debut in August 1951 on the occasion of a 2-1 home win against Arsenal . There followed sporadic appearances in the first team, including some as a half-striker , before he contributed a little to winning the English championship with six league games after completing military service in the 1953/54 season .

At 4: 4 in the Charity Shield game against West Bromwich Albion, Deeley scored the first goal for the professional team in August 1954 and he still looked a bit exotic due to his small size. The long-term perspective also seemed vague, as coach Stan Cullis wanted his team to show a special physical presence in the games. At the end of the 1956/57 season, Deeley worked his way up to the first team and showed great willingness to run on the left flank. During the summer tour through South Africa shortly thereafter, he finally came to the fore and celebrated his breakthrough in the 1957/58 season on the right wing position - the departures of the veteran Johnny Hancocks and Harry Hooper , who had fallen out of favor with Cullis , had left the right-wing outpost vacant . Deeley scored 23 goals, was the team's second best scorer behind center forward Jimmy Murray and won the English championship . Equipped with an above-average game intelligence, Deeley and his friend and also technically skilled Peter Broadbent were the starting point for the fast building game; to do this, he formed a "wing pliers" with the experienced left winger Jimmy Mullen . In the following season Deeley defended the league title with the Wolves , especially in 1959 he often dodged Mullen to the left. At the height of his creative power, during a tour of South America in May 1959, he also played two A-internationals for England , but they ended up with 0: 2 (against Brazil in the Maracanã Stadium ) and 1: 4 (against Peru in the Estadio Nacional ) both were lost and caused coach Walter Winterbottom to forego Deeley in the future.

Deeley narrowly missed a third English championship title with the Wolverhampton Wanderers in the 1959/60 season . But he contributed two goals in the FA Cup final to the 3-0 final victory against Blackburn Rovers and Deeley was considered a decisive player in several respects, as he beat the opposing Dave Whelan in the 43rd minute when the score was 1-0 the leg broke and the Rovers were severely disadvantaged - substitutions were not yet allowed at this time. In the season 1960/61 Deeley came for the fourth time in a row on a double-digit goal yield, but slowly the best time was coming to an end. In February 1962, he fell victim to extensive changes in the team and moved to Leyton Orient in London .

With the new club Deeley succeeded in the remaining games of promotion to the top English division, but in his last season 1962/63 as a professional he could not prevent the direct return to the second division. His last stops were in the lower leagues of Worcester City (162 competitive appearances, 44 goals), the Bromsgrove Rovers and Darlaston FC, where he ended his active career in 1974. Deeley then worked at the Caldmore Community Center in Walsall and lived in Wednesbury, the town of his birth, until his death in September 2007 .

Achievements / titles

literature

  • Tony Matthews: Wolverhampton Wanderers - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 2008, ISBN 978-1-85983-632-3 , pp. 112-113 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bill Cook, Julian Pugh: The Official History of Worcester City FC . Britesport Publishing, 2003, ISBN 978-1-904103-99-8 , pp. 188 .
personal data
SURNAME Deeley, Norman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deeley, Norman Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Wednesbury
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 2007
Place of death Wednesbury