Joe Haverty

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Joe Haverty

| image = Joe Haverty.jpg

| upright = 0.7

| full_name = Joseph Haverty

| birth_date = {{birth date|1936|2|17|df=y}}

| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|2009|2|7|1936|2|17|df=y}}

| death_place = Dublin, Ireland

| height = {{height|ft=5|in=3}}

| position = Winger

| youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = Home Farm

| years1 = 1953–1954 | clubs1 = St Patrick's Athletic | caps1 = 9 | goals1 = 1

| years2 = 1954–1961 | clubs2 = Arsenal | caps2 = 114 | goals2 = 25

| years3 = 1961–1962 | clubs3 = Blackburn Rovers | caps3 = 27 | goals3 = 1

| years4 = 1962–1964 | clubs4 = Millwall | caps4 = 68 | goals4 = 8

| years5 = 1964 | clubs5 = → Celtic (loan) | caps5 = 1 | goals5 = 0

| years6 = 1964–1965 | clubs6 = Bristol Rovers | caps6 = 13 | goals6 = 1

| years7 = 1965–1966 | clubs7 = Shelbourne | caps7 = 26 | goals7 = 3

| years8 = 1967 | clubs8 = Chicago Spurs | caps8 = 16 | goals8 = 0

| years9 = 1968 | clubs9 = Kansas City Spurs | caps9 = 22 | goals9 = 1

| years10= 1969 | clubs10= → Drumcondra (loan) | caps10= 6 | goals10= 0

| years11= 1969–1971 | clubs11= Shamrock Rovers | caps11= 7 | goals11= 0

| years12= 1971–1972 | clubs12= Drogheda | caps12= 6 | goals12= 0

| nationalyears1 = 1955–1966

| nationalteam1 = Republic of Ireland

| nationalcaps1 = 32

| nationalgoals1 = 3

}}

File:Eire 1960.jpg before their away match against Sweden in May 1960. Players (L–R), standing: Seamus Dunne, Noel Dwyer, Charlie Hurley. Michael McGrath, Pat Saward; crouched: Joe Haverty, George Cummins, Dermot Curtis, Ronnie Nolan, Ambrose "Amby" Fogarty and Fionan "Paddy" Fagan.]]

Joseph Haverty (17 February 1936 – 7 February 2009) was an Irish footballer who played as a winger. He was capped 32 times for the Republic of Ireland.

Career

Haverty played for Home Farm and St Patrick's Athletic before signing for Arsenal in July 1954.{{cite book |first=Jeff |last=Harris |editor-first=Tony |editor-last=Hogg |title=Arsenal Who's Who |publisher=Independent UK Sports |location=London |date=1995 |page=177 |isbn=978-1-899429-03-5}} He almost immediately made his debut, while still only 18, against Everton on 25 August 1954, though he only managed another six matches that season, and eight the one after that.{{cite web |url=https://www.11v11.com/players/joe-haverty-27795/ |title=Joe Haverty |website=11v11.com |publisher=AFS Enterprises |accessdate=7 November 2017}}

His breakthrough in the Arsenal side came in 1956–57, as he became the Gunners' first choice left-winger, playing 32 times and scoring 9 goals. By now he had also made his debut for the Republic of Ireland, against the Netherlands on 10 May 1955.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/joe-haverty-skilful-arsenal-and-republic-of-ireland-leftwinger-known-for-his-trickery-and-dribbling-1650631.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220609/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/joe-haverty-skilful-arsenal-and-republic-of-ireland-leftwinger-known-for-his-trickery-and-dribbling-1650631.html |archive-date=9 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Joe Haverty: Skilful Arsenal and Republic of Ireland left-winger known for his trickery and dribbling |first=Ivan |last=Ponting |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |date=21 March 2009 |accessdate=7 November 2017}}

Haverty also played in the London XI that contested the inaugural edition of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. He played against Lausanne Sports in the semi-finals (and scored a goal in the 3–2 aggregate win), he did not make the cut for the final against Barcelona, which London lost 6–1 on aggregate.

Back trouble meant he missed some of Arsenal's matches during this time,{{cite web |url=https://www.arsenal.com/historic/players/joe-haverty |title=Joe Haverty |publisher=Arsenal F.C. |accessdate=7 November 2017}} but put in 37 appearances and 8 goals in 1959–60, his best season for the club. However, the next season he was made to share the left wing position with Alan Skirton. Haverty was unhappy with the lack of a regular first-team place, and put in a transfer request; he was sold to Blackburn Rovers in August 1961 for £25,000. In all, he played 122 matches for Arsenal, scoring 26 goals.

Haverty spent a single season with Blackburn, before having spells in the lower divisions with Millwall and Bristol Rovers, with a brief spell at Celtic in between.{{Hugman|8543|accessdate=7 March 2017}} He moved back to his native Ireland to play for Shelbourne, with whom he won the last of his 32 full international caps. In 1967 he went to the United States to play for Chicago Spurs (later Kansas City Spurs) in the NASL,{{cite web |url=http://www.nasljerseys.com/Players/H/Haverty.Joe.htm |title=Joe Haverty |website=NASLjerseys.com |publisher=Dave Morrison |accessdate=7 November 2017}} and then returned to sign for Shamrock Rovers in 1969, for whom he made two appearances in the European Cup Winners' Cup.{{cite web |url=http://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/joe-haverty/ec-der-pokalsieger-1969-1970/shamrock-rovers/3/ |title=Joe Haverty: Cup Winners Cup 1969/1970 |website=WorldFootball.net |accessdate=7 November 2017}} In August 1971 he signed for Drogheda.{{cite news |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1971/0827/Pg003.html |title=Drogheda to sign Dixon |first=Seamus |last=Devlin |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=27 August 1971 |page=3 |quote=Meagan also announced signing on Joe Haverty, another former Shamrock Rovers player, and he is included in the Drogheda panel for Sunday's game. |url-access=subscription }}

He went on to scout for Arsenal in Ireland. In 2000, he was inaugurated into the Football Association of Ireland's Hall of Fame. He died on 7 February 2009, in Dublin, aged 72.