Vic Halom

Infobox Football biography
playername = Vic Halom


fullname = Vic Halom
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1943|10|03|df=yes
cityofbirth = Burton
countryofbirth = England
dateofdeath =
cityofdeath =
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height =
position = Striker
currentclub = Newcastle United (Scout)
youthyears =
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years = 1965-1968
1967-1969
1968-1972
1971-1973
1972-1976
1976-1979
1979-1981
clubs = Charlton Athletic
Leyton Orient
Fulham
Luton Town
Sunderland
Oldham Athletic
Rotherham United
Total
caps(goals) = 012 00(0)
053 0(12)
072 0(22)
059 0(17)
113 0(35)
123 0(43)
020 00(2) 452 (131)
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manageryears = 1984-1986
managerclubs = Rochdale
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Victor Halom (born 3 October, 1943 in Burton, England) is a former footballer and is currently scout for Newcastle United.

Biography

Playing career

Halom featured as a player most prominently for Sunderland and Oldham Athletic.

Coaching career

Halom moved into management in the early 1980s where he achieved great success with Barrow taking them back into the Vauxhall Conference in 1983-84. This led to him being appointed Rochdale manager at the end of the season. Halom began with a mass clear out, many of the incomers being ex-Oldham players. The side struggled to gel at first but things markedly improved when the under-performing record signing Les Lawrence was sold and replaced by proven goalscorer Steve Taylor late in 1984. For the next "calendar" year Rochdale showed promotion-winning form and earned a third round FA Cup tie with Manchester United.Fact|date=August 2008

Immediately after that the team went into steep decline not helped by the diastrous signing of David Mossman who moved on at a loss after less than ten games and Halom's strange perseverance with playing striker Ronnie Moore as a centre-half. There were also strong rumours that he had alienated the players by making promises that the club could not afford to keep. At the end of the season despite Rochdale having escaped re-election by one point Halom was retained but told by chairman Tommy Cannon to try to sell those players under expensive contracts. This seriously weakened the side and after Taylor was sold in October 1986 the club had sunk to bottom of the League by December. Halom was sacked and never managed a League club again.Fact|date=August 2008

In 1992 he stood as a Liberal Democrat candidate for Sunderland in the 1992 General Election but finished a distant third.Fact|date=August 2008

Halom now lives in Bulgaria and works as a European scout for Newcastle United.cite web |url=http://www.tribalfootball.com/article.php?id=101062 |title= Newcastle to take look at Levski Sofia prospects |publisher=tribalfootball.com |date=2008-07-05 |accessdate=2008-08-05 ]

References

External links

* [http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player1/vichalom.htm Profile] at [http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database]