Spencer Weir-Daley
{{Short description|Montserratian footballer (born 1985)}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2023}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Spencer Weir-Daley
| image =
| caption =
| fullname = Spencer James Andrew Weir-Daley
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|9|5|df=y}}
| birth_place = Leicester, England
| height = 1.78 m {{cite web|url=https://www.footballcritic.com/spencer-weir-daley/profile/59626|title=Profile of S. Weir-Daley|website=footballcritic.com|accessdate=16 June 2019}}
| position = Striker
| currentclub = Grace Dieu
| clubnumber =
| youthyears1 = {{0|0000}}–2004
| youthclubs1 = Nottingham Forest
| years1 = 2004–2007
| clubs1 = Nottingham Forest
| caps1 = 11
| goals1 = 2
| years2 = 2006
| clubs2 = → Macclesfield Town (loan)
| caps2 = 7
| goals2 = 2
| years3 = 2007
| clubs3 = → Lincoln City (loan)
| caps3 = 11
| goals3 = 5
| years4 = 2007
| clubs4 = → Bradford City (loan)
| caps4 = 5
| goals4 = 1
| years5 = 2007–2009
| clubs5 = Notts County
| caps5 = 40
| goals5 = 3
| years6 = 2009–2011
| clubs6 = Boston United
| caps6 = 79
| goals6 = 35
| years7 = 2011–2012
| clubs7 = AFC Telford United
| caps7 = 2
| goals7 = 0
| years8 = 2011
| clubs8 = → Buxton (dual registration)
| caps8 = 3
| goals8 = 4
| years9 = 2012–2014
| clubs9 = Boston United
| caps9 = 87
| goals9 = 31
| years10 = 2014–2016
| clubs10 = Corby Town
| caps10 = 47
| goals10 = 27
| years11 = 2016
| clubs11 = Kettering Town
| caps11 = 40
| goals11 = 22
| years12 = 2016
| clubs12 = Hednesford Town
| caps12 = 4
| goals12 = 1
| years13 = 2017
| clubs13 = Corby Town
| caps13 = 7
| goals13 = 1
| years14 = 2017
| clubs14 = Redditch United
| caps14 = 23
| goals14 = 14
| years15 = 2018
| clubs15 = Rushden & Diamonds
| caps15 = 10
| goals15 = 2
| years16 = 2018
| clubs16 = Barwell
| caps16 =
| goals16 =
| years17 = 2018–2020
| clubs17 = Peterborough Sports
| caps17 = 7
| goals17 = 2
| years18 = 2019
| clubs18 = → Gresley (loan)
| caps18 = 6
| goals18 = 1
| years19 = 2020
| clubs19 = → Shepshed Dynamo (loan)
| caps19 = 0
| goals19 = 0
| years20 = 2020–2021
| clubs20 = Spalding United
| caps20 = 7
| goals20 = 3
| years21 = 2021–2022
| clubs21 = Melton Town
| caps21 = 5
| goals21 = 0
| years22 = 2022–2023
| clubs22 = Pinchbeck United
| caps22 = 19
| goals22 = 10
| years23 = 2023
| clubs23 = Anstey Nomads
| caps23 = 11
| goals23 = 3
| years24 = 2023–
| clubs24 = Grace Dieu
| caps24 = 25
| goals24 = 13
| nationalyears1 = 2015–2023
| nationalteam1 = Montserrat
| nationalcaps1 = 18
| nationalgoals1 = 3
| club-update = 11:16, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
| nationalteam-update = 08:19, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
}}
Spencer James Andrew Weir-Daley (born 5 September 1985) is a footballer who plays as a striker for Grace Dieu and the Montserrat national team.
He notably played in the Football League for Nottingham Forest, Macclesfield Town, Lincoln City, Bradford City and Notts County before moving into non-league football where he has appeared for Boston United, AFC Telford United, Buxton, Kettering Town, Hednesford Town, Redditch United, Rushden & Diamonds, Barwell, Peterborough Sports, Gresley, Shepshed Dynamo, Spalding United, Melton Town and Pinchbeck United.
In 2015 whilst playing semi-professionally for Corby he was called up to represent Montserrat national team, for the next 8 years he became a vital member of the squad helping them reach the CONCACAF Gold cup preliminary qualifying round against Trinidad & Tobago national team in 2021 he was capped 18 times in total, scoring three goals
Club career
=Nottingham Forest=
Born in Leicester, Weir-Daley started his career at Nottingham Forest in 1996 at 10 years old progressing through their Academy and making his debut after successful spells in the youth and reserve teams. He made his debut in a League Cup game against Macclesfield Town and scored on his Football League debut with Forest in a 3–1 away win over Gillingham. After eight first-team appearances, he was side-lined in November by a serious shoulder injury .{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/nottm_forest/4493352.stm |title=Forest striker could need surgery |publisher=BBC News |date=2 December 2005 |access-date=6 July 2013}} That would keep him out for the remainder of the 2005–06 season.
In August 2006, Weir-Daley signed on loan for struggling League Two side Macclesfield Town for three months.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/macclesfield_town/5302590.stm |title=Tipton re-signs for Macclesfield |publisher=BBC News |date=31 August 2006 |access-date=6 July 2013}} He played seven league games and scored twice. In January 2007 he moved on loan to another League Two side, Lincoln City,{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/lincoln_city/6217925.stm |title=Lincoln sign Weir-Daley |publisher=BBC News |date=29 December 2006 |access-date=6 July 2013}} on loan sparking interest in a permanent deal and several other clubs after scoring against MK Dons and then two goals against Walsall, All of which were live on sky TV Including a Man of the Match award in the Walsall match{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/lincoln_city/6371295.stm |title=Deehan makes Weir-Daley promise |publisher=BBC News |date=17 February 2007 |access-date=6 July 2013}} His form brought him into consideration for the League Two February player of the month award, in which he came in 2nd place losing out to Wayne Hennessey of Stockport County{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/stockport/6417015.stm |title=Hennessey's heroics secure award |publisher=BBC News |date=4 March 2007 |access-date=6 July 2013}}
On 22 March, the deadline for emergency loans, Weir-Daley was signed on loan by League One club Bradford City and scored on his debut a last minute equaliser in a 1–1 draw with AFC Bournemouth{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/bradford_city/6478725.stm |title=Bradford sign Forest's Weir-Daley |publisher=BBC News |date=22 March 2007 |access-date=6 July 2013}} After his Bradford City loan spell Weir-Daley was recalled by Nottingham Forest for their League One play-off matches. Weir-Daley played in the 2–0 win over Yeovil Town in the play-off semi-final first leg, which proved to be his final appearance for Forest as he did not feature in the second leg in which they were beaten 5–2 at the City Ground. Weir-Daley later rejected a one-year contract offer stating his pursuit of regular football the reason.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/nottm_forest/6682019.stm|title=Nine players released by Forest|date=22 May 2007}} He made 11 appearances in total for Forest scoring two goals.
=Notts County=
Weir-Daley rejected interest from Bradford to sign a two-year deal with Notts County.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/notts_county/6232984.stm |title=Notts County swoop for Weir-Daley |publisher=BBC News |date=23 June 2007 |access-date=6 July 2013}}
Weir-Daley became the first Notts County striker to score in the 2007–08 season (including pre season), when he scored in his third start of the season in Notts County's 1–1 draw with Rotherham United on 22 September. He was released from his contract in January 2009 five months early by mutual consent along with fellow County player Jay Smith. Weir-Daley had played 48 games for County although only 12 were starts he scored three goals, all of which came in the league.{{cite news
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/notts_county/7851819.stm
|title=Pair agree to leave Meadow Lane
|date=26 January 2009
|access-date=26 January 2009
|publisher=BBC Sport}}
=Non-league=
He joined Boston United in October 2009, scoring 21 goals in the 2009–10 season helping the club to promotion. In May 2011 Spencer was offered a new contract from Boston United and rejected the offer and became a free agent
Rumours circulated of an impending move to Grimsby Town, however in a fans forum on 18 July 2011, joint-managers Paul Hurst and Rob Scott who managed Weir-Daley at Boston, commented that they had no interest in bringing him to Blundell Park.{{cite web | url=http://www.grimsby-townfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10417~2395917,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721035001/http://www.grimsby-townfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10417~2395917,00.html | url-status=usurped | archive-date=21 July 2011 | title=Grimsby-townfc.co.uk }}
In late August 2011 he joined AFC Telford United until the end of the 2011–12 season.{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14562096.stm | work=BBC News | title=Telford sign striker Weir-Daley | date=26 August 2011}}
In January 2012 he rejoined his former club. On 1 January 2013 Weir-Daley scored his 50th competitive goal for the club in a 2–1 loss to Corby Town after 96 starts and 21 as sub.{{cite news| url=http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/index.php?&newsmode=FULL&nid=81648 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130021517/http://www.nonleaguedaily.com/news/index.php?&newsmode=FULL&nid=81648 | url-status=usurped | archive-date=30 January 2013 | work=NonLeagueDaily.com | title=Boston return for Weir-Daley | date=13 January 2012}}
Weir-Daley signed for Corby Town on a one-year contract in June 2014, following the expiry of his contract at Boston United. Weir-Daley played a key role as Corby were crowned Champions on the last day of the 2014–15 Southern Football League season scoring twice including the winner in virtually a league playoff decider. Weir-Daley also finished the club's top scorer with 23 goals in 38 starts.{{Cite web|url=http://nonleague.pitchero.com/news/steelmen-move-for-weir-daley-32192/|title = Steelmen Move for Weir-Daley|date = 29 June 2014}}
In February 2016, Weir-Daley signed for Southern League club Kettering Town on loan until the end of the season.{{Cite web|url=http://nonleague.pitchero.com/news/poppies-borrow-weir-daley-45002/|title = Poppies Borrow Weir-Daley|date = 2 February 2016}} He scored his first goal for Kettering Town four minutes into his debut in a 2–0 win away at second placed Chippenham Town.{{Cite web|url=http://www.poppiesfans.com/2016/02/poppies-away-to-chippenham-town/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224141626/http://www.poppiesfans.com/2016/02/poppies-away-to-chippenham-town/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=24 February 2016|title = Poppies Fans is under construction}} Weir-Daley went on to score seven goals in 11 appearances as Kettering narrowly missed out on the playoffs by one point. Weir-Daley re-signed for the 2016–17 season as Kettering were one of the promotion favourites although they had slow start Weir-Daley's goals were still coming including a hat-trick against St Neots Town.{{Cite web |url=http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/kettering-town/hat-trick-hero-weir-daley-helps-poppies-to-a-five-star-success-1-7576147/ |title=Hat-trick hero Weir-Daley helps Poppies to a five-star success - Northamptonshire Telegraph |access-date=16 December 2016 |archive-date=21 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221093131/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/kettering-town/hat-trick-hero-weir-daley-helps-poppies-to-a-five-star-success-1-7576147 |url-status=dead }}
It was announced on 8 December 2016 that Weir-Daley had signed for Northern Premier League team Hednesford Town.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hednesfordtownfc.com/2016/12/striker-arrives-at-keys-park|title = Hednesford Town Football Club - Striker Arrives at Keys Park}}
It was announced on 27 July 2017 that Weir-Daley had signed for Southern League Premier Division team Redditch United. He scored his first goal for the club in a pre-season friendly against Midland League side Boldmere St. Michaels in a 3–1 victory for Redditch. Weir-Daley made his competitive debut for Redditch in a 5–0 win against Dunstable Town on the opening day of the 2017–18 season.
He went on to play for AFC Rushden & Diamonds, Barwell and Peterborough Sports, whom he joined in October 2018.{{cite news |url=https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/sport/football/non-league/peterborough-sports-sign-an-international-player-and-are-back-on-track-after-late-winner-spalding-make-a-late-point-from-the-spot-stamford-held-in-trophy-while-yaxley-s-scheduled-opponents-are-investigated-1-8684663 |title=Peterborough Sports sign an international player and are back on track after late winner... |first=Alan |last=Swann |newspaper=Peterborough Telegraph |date=27 October 2018 |access-date=3 January 2019}}{{cite web |url=http://www.pslfc.com/club/155093/Players/view/2730833 |title=Players: Spencer Weir-Daley |publisher=Peterborough Sports F.C. |access-date=3 January 2019}} He then had spells at Gresley, Shepshed Dynamo and Spalding United. In the 2021-22 season he played for Melton Town and Pinchbeck United.{{cite web | url=http://sunderland.fawsl.com/statsForPlayer.html?personID=685240274 | title=Spencer Weir Daley player stats | Uhlsport United Counties League }} He joined Anstey Nomads in March 2023.{{cite web | url=https://www.spaldingvoice.co.uk/top-two-were-too-strong-for-knights/ | title=Top two were too strong for Knights - the Voice | date=8 March 2023 }}
International career
Weir-Daley was called up to Montserrat in March 2015 for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying double-header against Curaçao.{{cite news| url=http://www.southern-football-league.co.uk/league-news/montserrat-call-up-weir-daley-for-world-cup-duty | work=Southern Football League | title=Weir-Daley receives World Cup call from Montserrat | date=6 March 2015}}
Weir-Daley scored his first international goal for Montserrat on 14 October against Belize in the 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League qualification to earn a 1–0 win, curling into the top corner from just outside the 18-yard box.{{Cite web|url=http://www.the42.ie/montserrat-beat-belize-4288805-Oct2018/|title = Montserrat - the world's 205th best team - won a match thanks to this cracker| date=16 October 2018 }}
Career statistics
:Scores and results list Montserrat's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Weir-Daley goal.
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of international goals scored by Spencer Weir-Daley{{cite web|url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/58782/Spencer_Weir_Daley.html|title=Weir-Daley, Spencer|publisher=National Football Teams|access-date=21 October 2018}} | ||||||
| scope="col"|No.
!scope="col"|Date !scope="col"|Venue !scope="col"|Opponent !scope="col"|Score !scope="col"|Result !scope="col"|Competition | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="text-align:center"|1 | 14 October 2018 | Blakes Estate Stadium, Lookout, Montserrat | {{fb|BLZ}} | style="text-align:center"|1–0 | style="text-align:center"|1–0 | 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League qualification |
| style="text-align:center"|2 | 16 November 2018 | Ergilio Hato Stadium, Willemstad, Curaçao | {{fb|ARU}} | style="text-align:center"|1–0 | style="text-align:center"|2–0 | 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League qualification |
| style="text-align:center"|3 | 10 September 2019 | Blakes Estate Stadium, Lookout, Montserrat | {{fb|LCA}} | style="text-align:center"|1–0 | style="text-align:center"|1–1 | 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League B |
References
{{Reflist|refs=
| title = List of Players under Written Contract Registered Between 01/07/2010 and 31/07/2010
| url = http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/RulesandRegulations/~/media/Files/PDF/TheFA/Rules_Regs/July%202010.ashx/July%202010.pdf
| publisher = The Football Association
| access-date = 21 August 2010}}
}}
http://www.bostonunited.co.uk/news/weir-daley-receives-united-mem-818273.html
External links
- {{Soccerbase}}
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