John Bailey (footballer born 1957)
John Anthony Bailey ( born April 1, 1957 in Liverpool ) is a former English footballer. The left-back came through the detour Blackburn Rovers in 1979 to Everton and won there in 1984 the FA Cup before the in the 1984/85 season before winning the " Doubles " from English Championship and European Cup Winners' Cup by Pat Van Den Hauwe from starting eleven was ousted. Last stations until his retirement in late 1991 were Newcastle United and Bristol City.
Sports career
Blackburn Rovers (1975-1979)
Bailey came in the 1975/76 season in his first competitive match inserts in the first team of Blackburn Rovers. The Rovers were previously returned a year from the third division to the second division and after his debut on August 19, 1975 in the League Cup against Preston North End ( 0:2 ), he ran on February 24, first time in 1976 against Blackpool FC (1:1 ) on in a championship game. Faster than expected, conquered the " curly head " then on the left -back position a regular place, which was also due to financial constraints, which the Rovers had to face in the summer of 1976. Result was that in addition to newly obligated talents like Andy Needham and Bobby Mitchell also the focus was on their own offspring, of which Bailey benefited from, among others, the 1976/77 season.
In the three years up to the end of the season 1978/79 he was a total of 114 league games " perennial favorite " on his position and liked it as it were by attacking instincts and strength in the tackle. The only matches during his professional time in Blackburn he succeeded on November 19, 1977 in a 3-1 win against Mansfield Town. Disappointing ended its involvement in the spring of 1979 with the descent to the third tier and one of the first acts of the new player coach Howard Kendall was to make the interest to Premier League clubs Bailey to money. So this finally changed in July 1979 for a transfer fee of £ 300,000 to Everton in the English top flight.
Everton FC (1979-1985)
Under coach Gordon Lee he missed at his new club in the season 1979/80 not a single competitive game; so he helped the " Toffees " for scarce league. After a second year and a further placement in the lower table sector, he fell in the 1981/82 season with the new coach Howard Kendall - who had two years earlier, sold him to Everton - first in disgrace before his position in the season 1982 / 83 recaptured and was instrumental in the ensuing upward trend of the team share. The highpoint was there in May 1984 winning the FA Cup, FC Watford defeated in the finals Bailey with his men 2-0.
In October 1984, Everton FC undertook the Welsh Pat Van Den Hauwe, who immediately secured the left-back position and Bailey while in the course of the championship season in 1984/85 remained outside before. The 15 league operations should be sufficient yet for the official receipt of a champion medal. Even in the crucial games on the way to winning the European Cup Winners' Cup Bailey was after four inserts in the first two rounds against UC Dublin (0-0, 1-0) and Inter Bratislava (1-0, 3-0) no longer represented. A short time later, leaving Bailey, who had always been crowd favorite and " life of the party " in the cabin of Everton, the club in October 1985 in the direction of Premier League rivals Newcastle United.
Career finale (1985-1991)
In the " Magpies " Bailey took place in the 1985/86 season, first back to regular operations on the ancestral position back, came up with 28 league games. These works were followed by eight further appearances at the beginning of the subsequent season 1986/87, before he lost his place to Kenny Wharton. By the end of the 1987/88 season he was only four times - including three at the beginning of the round in the starting lineup - and it ultimately had to leave even happen Tinnion Brian and John Cornwell in the pecking order next to Wharton. In September 1988, he hired then to the two leagues deep acting club Bristol City.
From mid-October 1988, Bailey conquered by Russell Bromage there the trunk space on the left side of defense, and within two years he succeeded with the " Robins " on the runner-up promotion to the second division. There, the club was held in Martin Scott in December 1990, almost eleven years younger alternative for Bailey, who in his last professional season in 1990/91 retired with only seven league inserts from active competition.
By 1993, he then worked as a youth coach for FC Everton.
Title / Awards
- English Championship ( 1): 1985
- English Cup ( 1): 1984
- Charity Shield (2): 1984, 1985