Tommy Wright (soccer player, 1963)

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Tommy Wright
Personnel
Surname Thomas James Wright
birthday August 29, 1963
place of birth BallyclareNorthern Ireland
size 185 cm
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1984-1988 Linfield FC
1988-1993 Newcastle United 73 (0)
1991 →  Hull City  (loan) 6 (0)
1993-1997 Nottingham Forest 11 (0)
1996 →  Reading FC  (loan) 17 (0)
1997 →  Manchester City  (loan) 5 (0)
1997-2001 Manchester City 29 (0)
1999 →  AFC Wrexham  (loan) 16 (0)
1999 →  Newcastle United  (Loan) 3 (0)
2001 →  Bolton Wanderers  (loan) 4 (0)
2001 Bolton Wanderers 0 (0)
2001-2002 Ballymena United 6 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1989-1999 Northern Ireland 31 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2003-2005 Limavady United
2005-2008 Ballymena United
2009-2011 Lisburn Distillery
2011-2013 FC St. Johnstone (assistant coach)
2013-2020 St. Johnstone FC
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas "Tommy" James Wright (born August 29, 1963 in Ballyclare ) is a former Northern Irish national soccer goalkeeper and currently soccer coach .

Career

As a player

Tommy Wright was born in Ballyclare in 1963, 20 km north of Belfast . He began his career in 1984 with Linfield FC . With the club he won the Northern Irish Championship three times in a row in the 1980s . In January 1988 he was signed by Newcastle United for £ 30,000. For the English first division club, he did not play a game in the 1987/88 season . In the following season 1988/89 he came to nine league games after Dave Beasant had joined Chelsea in January 1989 . In the same season Newcastle rose from bottom of the table in the Second Division. In the second division season 14 appearances followed. After the missed promotion to the play-offs, Wright was not used at the beginning of the new season and finally awarded to Hull City from February to May 1991 . After his return he was the goalkeeper with the Magpies. He later lost this place to the Czech Pavel Srníček . In September 1993 he moved to Nottingham Forest for a transfer fee of £ 350,000 . There he was second goalkeeper behind Mark Crossley . In his last two years of contract in Nottingham, the goalkeeper was loaned out to the second division club Reading FC in 1996 . Then from January to February 1997 to the first division club Manchester City , which was relegated at the end of the 1995/96 season. At the Citizens he was first behind Eike Immel and then behind Martyn Margetson substitute goalkeeper. In the 1997/98 season , relegation to the third division followed. Wright was then awarded on AFC Wrexham , Newcastle United and Bolton Wanderers for the next two years . In 2001 he was signed by the Wanderers. He then played for Ballymena United in Northern Ireland for a year .

Between 1989 and 1999 Wright completed 31 international matches for the Northern Irish national football team .

As a trainer

In 2003 Wright began working as a club coach. In November 2003 he took over the Northern Irish club Limavady United . Two years later he was a coach at Ballymena United . He then trained at Lisburn Distillery from 2009 to 2011 . In November 2011 he became Steve Lomas' assistant coach at the Scottish first division club St. Johnstone . His former teammate from Manchester moved to England for Millwall FC in June 2013 . Wright took over as a coach at the Saints. He led the club, founded in 1884, to its first cup win in club history in its first year , when Dundee United was defeated. In the following years he led the club from Perth in the European Cup several times.

At the beginning of May 2020 he announced his immediate resignation after seven years in office, giving the reason that he “needed a break”. The 2019/20 Scottish Premiership had been interrupted for a month and a half at this time due to the global COVID-19 pandemic .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. bbc.com: St Johnstone: Tommy Wright quits as manager after seven years (May 2, 2020) , accessed May 3, 2020