Tony Kay

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Tony Kay
Personnel
Surname Anthony Herbert Kay
birthday May 13, 1937
place of birth Sheffield ,  England
position External rotor (left)
Juniors
Years station
1952-1954 Sheffield Wednesday
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1954-1952 Sheffield Wednesday 179 (10)
1962-1964 Everton FC 50 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1959-1960 England U-23 7 0(1)
1963 England 1 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Anthony Herbert "Tony" Kay (born May 13, 1937 in Sheffield ) is a former English football player . Mostly used as a left wing runner , he won the English championship with Everton FC after his early years at Sheffield Wednesday 1963 . His career came to a sudden end after it was proven that he was involved in an illegal match-fixing.

Athletic career

Kay was part of the youth department of Sheffield Wednesday from 1952 and two years later the "Owls" equipped him with a professional contract. He made his debut on April 8, 1955 in the first division game against Bolton Wanderers , but in the following time it should not be enough for the "redhead" for a regular place. It wasn't until Harry Catterick took over as coach in 1958 that Kay celebrated his sporting breakthrough. Together, the “elevator team”, which in 1958 had been relegated to the second class for the second time in a very short time (after 1955), managed to get back up straight away . As a left winger , he played alongside Peter Swan and Tom McAnearney , who were increasingly regarded as one of the best runners in English football. The following year Kay completed 31 first division games in the 1959/60 season and he was largely responsible for the surprising achievement of fifth place . The following year Kay won the runner-up with Sheffield and only had to admit defeat to the outstanding double winner Tottenham Hotspur . Kay was at this point one of the greatest talents in English football in his position and he particularly impressed with his accuracy of pass and strength in duels; the latter he often demonstrated with great self-confidence and he was considered a “motivator” on the pitch.

In December 1962, Kay followed his coach Catterick to Everton , where his mentors had meanwhile ended up. The newcomer immediately took his place from the veteran Brian Harris and it wasn't long before Catterick made him captain in Everton. Kay had moved to Liverpool for no less than £ 55,000 and in the remaining games of the 1962/63 season he helped secure the English championship win . Shortly afterwards, he played his first international match for England and in the 8-1 win against Switzerland on June 5, 1963 , he also scored a goal in Basel - a good three years earlier he had already played seven times for the U-23 Selection acts.

A possibly further development came to an abrupt end in April 1964 when the Sunday People newspaper reported a betting scandal. Together with Peter Swan and David Layne , two other players of his ex-club Sheffield Wednesday, Kay participated in an agreement that provided for the defeat of their own team against Ipswich Town on December 1, 1962. In fact, Ipswich won the game 2-0. The matter came to the public when Jimmy Gauld, an initiator of the collusion, sold his story to the newspaper. Sound recordings were used as evidence and, in addition to a four-month jail sentence, the sentence included a life ban in relation to professional football. He was released after ten weeks and the English Football Association lifted the lifelong suspension seven years later. The affair was later made into a film directed by Paul Greengrass ; Kay's actor was Jason Isaacs .

With the seven-year compulsory break, however, his professional career was over and he was only active in amateur football. He later came into conflict with the law again after selling a counterfeit diamond. He first fled to Spain, where he spent a total of twelve years. In between, he was arrested while visiting home and, in addition to a £ 400 fine, spent a weekend in prison. He returned to England in 1986 and lived in London from then on, before moving to Merseyside when he was 62 years old .

Title / Awards

literature

  • Ivan Ponting: Everton Player by Player . Hamlyn, London 1998, ISBN 0-600-59581-1 , pp. 40 .
  • Brodie, John & Dickinson, Jason: Sheffield Wednesday - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-1-85983-973-7 , pp. 174-175 .
  • Hayes, Dean P .: England! England! The Complete Who's Who of Players since 1946 . Sutton Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3234-1 , pp. 165 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "England - U-23 International Results- Details" (RSSSF)
  2. ↑ "Triumph and despair" (The Observer)
personal data
SURNAME Kay, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kay, Anthony Herbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield , England