Jimmy Dailey

Infobox Football biography
playername = Jimmy Dailey


fullname = James Dailey
dateofbirth = September 8, 1927
cityofbirth = Glenboig
countryofbirth = Scotland
dateofdeath = January 2002 (aged 74)
cityofdeath = Weymouth
countryofdeath = England
height =
position = Centre-forward
youthyears = 1943–1945
youthclubs = Wolverhampton Wanderers
years = 1945–1946
1946–1949
1949–1952
1952–1953
1953–1957
1957–1959
1959–1961
1961–


clubs = Third Lanark
Sheffield Wednesday
Birmingham City
Exeter City
Workington
Rochdale
Weymouth
Bath City
Poole Town
Bridport
caps(goals) = 037 0(24)
041 0(14)
045 0(13)
176 0(74)
053 0(25)
0?? 0(42)



manageryears =
managerteams = Portland United
Dorchester Town

James "Jimmy" Dailey (September 8, 1927 – January 2002) is a former Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre-forward.

Biography

Jimmy Dailey was born in Glenboig, Lanarkshire. He began his football career during the Second World War as an amateur with Wolverhampton Wanderers. After the war he returned home and signed for Third Lanark. When he arrived at Sheffield Wednesday from Scotland as an 18-year-old, the team were struggling. He scored seven goals in his first eight games to start their recovery. [cite web
url=http://www.swfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/HistoryDetail/0,,10304~65722,00.html | title=Complete History: The War and Other Catastrophes | publisher=Sheffield Wednesday F.C. | accessdate=2007-08-30] At the start of the following season he scored ten in seven weeks, including all five in a 5–2 defeat of Barnsley, [cite web
url=http://www.adrianbullock.com/swfc/stats/lg1948.htm | title=Season 1947-1948 | work=The Sheffield Wednesday Archive | author=Stuart Jackson | publisher=Adrian Bullock | accessdate=2007-08-29] but the club preferred Eddie Quigley and Clarrie Jordan.

Dailey moved to Birmingham City for a not inconsiderable fee of £10,000cite news
url=http://archive.thisisdorset.net/2002/1/18/92806.html | title=Death of former Terras striker | publisher=Dorset Echo | date=2002-01-18 | accessdate=2007-08-29] in February 1949. The next season, 1949–50, he was top scorer with nine goals in 23 games for a poor side which finished at the bottom of the table, but after that he rarely played.

After leaving Birmingham he went on to score freely in the lower divisions, notably with 74 goals in 176 League games for Workington, including a club all-time record 26 in 1956–57. [cite web
url=http://www.workingtonreds.co.uk/history.asp | title=Club History | work=The Popular Side (a Workington AFC fansite) | accessdate=2007-08-30] At Rochdale he scored a goal every other game, which contributed to the club being placed in the Third Division on goal average when the Football League was reorganised in 1958. [cite web
url=http://www.rochdaleafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/History/0,,10441,00.html | title=Club history | publisher=Rochdale A.F.C. | accessdate=2007-08-30]

He later played non-league football in the south-west of England and managed Portland United and Dorchester Town. After leaving football he ran a sports shop in Weymouth. He retired to Spain but returned due to ill-health in 2001 and died in Weymouth the following year aged 74.

Honours

* with Birmingham City
** Club's top scorer (9) 1950.
* with Workington
** Club's top scorer (26) 1957.
* with Weymouth
** Club's top scorer (31) 1959.

Notes and references

*cite book
author=Matthews, Tony | title=Birmingham City: A Complete Record | year=1995 | publisher=Breedon Books | isbn=1-85983-010-2
*cite web
url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/ | title=Neil Brown's statistics site

Persondata
NAME = Dailey, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Dailey, Jimmy
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Professional footballer
DATE OF BIRTH = 1927-09-08
PLACE OF BIRTH = Glenboig, Lanarkshire, Scotland
DATE OF DEATH = January 2002
PLACE OF DEATH = Weymouth, Dorset, England