- Trevor Morley
Infobox Football biography
playername = Trevor Morley
fullname = Trevor William Morley
height =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1961|3|20|
cityofbirth =Nottingham
countryofbirth =England
dateofdeath =
cityofdeath =
countryofdeath =
position = Striker
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1984–1985
1985–1988
1988–1989
1989–1995
1995–1998
1996
1998
clubs = Nuneaton Borough
Northampton Town
Manchester City
West Ham United
Reading → Brann (loan) Sogndal Total
caps(goals) = 0? 00(?)
107 0(39)
072 0(18)
178 0(57)
076 0(31)
0 7 0 (4)
05 00(0)
445 (149)
nationalyears =
nationalteam =
nationalcaps(goals) =
manageryears =
managerclubs =Trevor Morley (born
20 March 1961 inNottingham ) is an English former professional footballer who played as astriker .Morley played for Northampton Town, having previously seen
non-league football with Corby TownFact|date=April 2008 and Nuneaton Borough. He joined Manchester City in January 1988 as part of an exchange deal that sawTony Adcock move to the County Ground.At the end of 1989, Morley joined
London club West Ham United from City in a deal that saw Ian Bishop also move to Upton Park, and Mark Ward travel in the other direction.Morley made his debut, along with Bishop, against Leicester City on
30 December 1989 . He went on to score 50 goals in 215 league and cup appearances for the Upton Park club, and was their top scorer for the 1990-91, 1992-93 and 1993-94 seasons. He was voted Hammer of the Year in 1994. It was while he was at West Ham that he was stabbed in the buttocks with a screwdriver by his wife when she caught him having homosexual relations with Ian Bishop. Police at the time simply described the stabbing as a 'Domestic incident'.Morley played for Reading between 1995 and 1998, then moved to Brann in
Norway , where he spent three seasons. He also played for Sogndal in 1998. He later had a spell scouting for Arsenal in Norway and, in 2000, took on the manager's role at Bergen Sparta of the Norwegian Fifth Division.References
* [http://www.westhamstats.info/westham.php?west=2&ham=481&united=Trevor_Morley The Wonderful World of West Ham statistics]
* [http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=5593 Statistics at Soccerbase.com]
*cite book |last=Hogg |first=Tony |title=Who's Who of West Ham United |year=2005 |publisher=Profile Sports Media| id= ISBN 1 903135 50 8 |pages=148
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