Irving Nattrass

{{Short description|English footballer}}

{{Use British English|date=November 2013}}

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{{Infobox football biography

| name = Irving Nattrass

| image =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1952|12|20}}

| birth_place = Fishburn, England

| currentclub =

| position = right back

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Newcastle United

| years1 = 1970–1979

| years2 = 1979–1986

| clubs1 = Newcastle United

| clubs2 = Middlesbrough

| caps1 = 238

| caps2 = 191

| goals1 = 16

| goals2 = 2

| totalcaps = 429 | totalgoals = 18

| nationalyears1 = 1976

| nationalteam1 = England U23

| nationalcaps1 = 1

| nationalgoals1 = 0

}}

Irving Nattrass (born 20 December 1952) is an English former footballer who played primarily as a right back for Newcastle and Middlesbrough.{{cite news | title = Born on this day: One of Newcastle United's best-ever right-backs

| newspaper = Chronicle| location = Newcastle| language = English| publisher = chroniclelive.co.uk| date = 12 December 2016| url = https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history/born-day-one-newcastle-uniteds-12299975| access-date = 15 March 2019}}

Born in Fishburn, England, Nattrass attended Ferryhill Grammar School and signed with Newcastle at age 16 on an apprenticeship.

As a youth player Nattrass lacked confidence and made slow progress within the club, even going so far as to look for employment elsewhere as a mechanic. However, he soon found his stride and went on to sign professionally for the club in July 1970, aged 17. A year later Nattrass went on to make his debut against Derby.

The then Newcastle manager Joe Harvey once commented "Nattrass is my Paul Madeley and I can't pay him a bigger compliment than that". Madeley was a Leeds and England player who was dubbed the "Rolls-Royce" of footballers.

Hampered by injuries and disagreements with the Newcastle board he eventually moved to Middlesbrough for the sum of £375,000. Nattrass made his league debut for them against Arsenal on 15 September 1979.