Peter Southey

Peter Southey
Personnel
Surname	Peter Charles Southey
birthday	4th January 1962
place of birth	Parsons Green ,  England
date of death	December 28, 1983
Place of death	Ham ,  England
position	Full-back
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1979-1983	Tottenham Hotspur	1 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	England youth
1 Only league games are given.

Peter Charles Southey (born January 4, 1962 in Parsons Green , † December 28, 1983 in Ham ) was an English football player .

Career

Southey came in July 1979 as an Apprentice (dt. Trainee) to Tottenham Hotspur and announced on September 8, 1979 against Brighton & Hove Albion its debut in the Football League First Division , a month before he signed a professional contract. In the following years, Southey's appearances on the professional team were limited to friendly games, otherwise he played on the reserve team. In 1981 he took part with the English junior national team at the Junior World Championships in Australia and came there to two missions when the English team finished fourth.

After he had breathing problems in the pre-season preparation phase in the summer of 1983 and was regularly last in running exercises, doctors diagnosed Southey with leukemia . He died at the age of 21 on December 28, 1983 after attempting a bone marrow transplant .

literature

• Bob Goodwin: The Spurs Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Tottenham Hotspur FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1992, ISBN 0-9514862-8-4 , pp. 339 .

Web links

• Profile at sporting-heroes.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cockerschronicles.com: RIP PETER SOUTHEY (March 5, 2011)
2. ↑ tottenhamhotspur.com: ON THIS DAY ...