Jimmy Dailey
{{short description|Scottish footballer (1927–2002)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Jimmy Dailey
| image =
| fullname = James Dailey
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|9|8|df=y}}
| birth_place = Glenboig, Scotland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|01||1927|9|8|df=y}}
| death_place = Weymouth, England
| height =
| position = Centre forward
| youthyears1 = 1943–1945 | youthclubs1 = Wolverhampton Wanderers
| years1 = 1945–1946 | clubs1 = Third Lanark | caps1 = | goals1 =
| years2 = 1946–1949 | clubs2 = Sheffield Wednesday | caps2 = 37 | goals2 = 24
| years3 = 1949–1952 | clubs3 = Birmingham City | caps3 = 41 | goals3 = 14
| years4 = 1952–1953 | clubs4 = Exeter City | caps4 = 45 | goals4 = 13
| years5 = 1953–1957 | clubs5 = Workington | caps5 = 176 | goals5 = 74
| years6 = 1957–1959 | clubs6 = Rochdale | caps6 = 53 | goals6 = 25
| years7 = 1959–1961 | clubs7 = Weymouth | caps7 = 53 | goals7 = 41
| years8 = 1961–19?? | clubs8 = Bath City
| years9 = | clubs9 = Poole Town
| years10= | clubs10= Bridport
| manageryears1 = | managerclubs1 = Portland United
| manageryears2 = | managerclubs2 =Dorchester Town
}}
James Dailey (8 September 1927 – January 2002) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre forward.
Biography
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. |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812081021/http://www.swfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/HistoryDetail/0%2C%2C10304~65722%2C00.html |archivedate=12 August 2007 |url-status=dead}} 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=29 August 2007}} but the club preferred Eddie Quigley and Clarrie Jordan.
Dailey moved to Birmingham City for a not inconsiderable fee of £10,000{{cite news
|url=http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/5391545.DEATH_OF_FORMER_TERRAS_STRIKER/ |title=Death of former Terras striker |newspaper=Bournemouth Echo |date=18 January 2002 |accessdate=16 July 2015}} 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 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070907091743/http://www.workingtonreds.co.uk/history.asp |archivedate=7 September 2007}} 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. |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509123451/http://www.rochdaleafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/History/0%2C%2C10441%2C00.html |archivedate= 9 May 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Dailey 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 in 2001 due to ill health, and died in Weymouth in January 2002, at the age of 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/player4/jimdailey.html |title=Neil Brown's statistics site}}
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Category:Scottish men's footballers
Category:Men's association football forwards
Category:Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
Category:Third Lanark A.C. players
Category:Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players
Category:Birmingham City F.C. players
Category:Exeter City F.C. players
Category:Workington A.F.C. players
Category:Rochdale A.F.C. players
Category:Weymouth F.C. players
Category:Bath City F.C. players
Category:Bridport F.C. players
Category:English Football League players
Category:Scottish football managers