Terry Adamson

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Terry Adamson
Personnel
Surname Terence Adamson
birthday October 15, 1948
place of birth Houghton-le-Spring ,  England
position External defense
Juniors
Years station
Sunderland AFC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1965-1966 Sunderland AFC 0 (0)
1966-1967 Luton Town 2 (0)
1967 Hartlepools United 1 (0)
1967-1968 Scarborough FC (0)
South Shields FC
Murton Colliery Welfare
1 Only league games are given.

Terence "Terry" Adamson (born October 15, 1948 in Houghton-le-Spring ) is a former English football player .

Career

Adamson belonged to the youth division of the first division AFC Sunderland and signed a professional contract in November 1965 at the age of 17. In 1966 he stood at the side of players like Colin Todd , Colin Suggett , Bobby Kerr and Billy Hughes in the final of the FA Youth Cup , despite a 2-1 first leg success they missed by a 4-1 defeat in the second leg in Highbury against the Arsenal FC won the title. Adamson, who was mainly employed as a full-back, was not signed by Sunderland beyond the end of the season and Luton Town's coach George Martinguided him and his teammate Brian Johnson to the fourth division club . As a substitute behind Bobby Thomson and Fred Jardine , it took until April 1967 before he came to two missions against Port Vale and Southend United .

At the end of the season he returned to the northeast of England and joined the fourth division rivals Hartlepools United . There he only came in early September in a home game against AFC Rochdale (final score 1: 1) to train and left the club before the end of the year. The rest of the 1967/68 season he played alongside his older brother Keith at Scarborough FC in the Midland League , for which he played 13 competitive games during the season. After a brief stint at South Shields FC , he joined Murton Colliery Welfare in the Wearside League , for which he played for twelve years. He earned his living in the upholstery business .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Terry Adamson in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ^ Sunderland Youths crash at Highbury . In: Newcastle Journal , May 10, 1966, p. 16.  (paid link)
  3. ↑ a b c Roger Wash: Hatters Heroes: An A - Z of Luton Town players since 1946 . Newmarket 2008, ISBN 978-0-9560832-0-3 .
  4. ^ Colin Foster: A Century Of Poolies: The Who's Who Of Hartlepool United, 1908-2008 . 2008, p. 1 .
  5. ^ Steve Adamson, Scarborough Football Club: The Official History, 1879-1998 . Yore Publications, Harefield 1998, ISBN 978-1-874427-92-6 , pp. 122 .
personal data
SURNAME Adamson, Terry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adamson, Terence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Houghton-le-Spring