Jimmy Goodfellow

Infobox Football biography
playername = Jimmy Goodfellow


fullname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1943|09|16
cityofbirth = Hendon, Sunderland
countryofbirth = England
height =
currentclub =
position =
youthyears =
youthclubs = Newcastle United
years =
?-1966
1966-1969
1969-1973
1973-1978
1978-1979
clubs = Consett
Crook Town
Bishop Auckland
Port Vale
Workington
Rotherham United
Stockport County
caps(goals) =
085 (10)
199 (15)
192 0(8)
003 0(0)
nationalyears =
nationalteam =
nationalcaps(goals) =
manageryears = 1984
1984
managerclubs = Cardiff City (co-manager)
Cardiff City

Jimmy Goodfellow (born 16 September, 1943 in Sunderland) is a former English professional footballer and manager.

Biography

Attending Hendon Boarding School as a youngster, Goodfellow signed for Newcastle United, despite being a Sunderland fan, but was released by the club at the age of 17 without making an appearance. He moved into non-league football, signing for Consett before moving to Crook Town, making his debut against Stanley United. In 1964, at the age of 20, he scored Crook Town's first ever goal at Wembley when he scored against Enfield the the Amateur Cup final. Goodfellow became unhappy with the way the team was selected at Crook Town, being chosen by a commitee rather than the clubs manager, and agreed to join Bishop Auckland when manager Lawrie McMenemy asked him to join.

Goodfellow spent one season at the club, helping to win the Northern League, before he got the call to move into league football with Port Vale, then managed by former England player Stanley Matthews, although Goodfellow did stipulate that as part of the deal the club must find him and his fiancee a house to live in. He remained with the club for three years before moving on to Workington and then later Rotherham United. He ended his playing career with Stockport County before being asked by Len Ashurst to join him as his assistant manager at Newport County.

Goodfellow would later follow Ashurst to another club, Cardiff City, and took over as caretaker manager when Ashurst was dismissed in 1984 and later had a short spell as the clubs official manager but was replaced by Alan Durban after just 2 months due to losing 8 of his first 9 games. [ [http://www.cardiffcityfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/ClubHistory/0,,10335~61946,00.html "The seventies to the noughties"] Cardiffcityfc.co.uk Retrieved on 7 September, 2008] After his dismissal he joined Plymouth Argyle as physio before joining up with Lawrie McMenemy again for an ill-fated spell at Sunderland. Two years after leaving Cardiff City he was asked to return as the clubs physio by then manager Frank Burrows and in 1998 he was given a testimonial by the club against Manchester United, with Goodfellow himself being brought on in the final few minutes at the age of 55. [ [http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/columnists/backtrack/3563140.For_he___s_a_jolly_Goodfellow______/ "For he's a jolly Goodfellow"] Northern Echo Retrieved on 7 September, 2008] [ [http://www.red11.org/mufc/news/98/060598.htm "Cardiff City XI 1-1 Manchester United XI"] Red11.org Retrieved on 7 September, 2008]

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