Billy McAdams

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Billy McAdams
Personal information
Full name William John McAdams [1]
Date of birth(1934-01-20)20 January 1934
Place of birth Belfast, Northern Ireland
Date of death 13 October 2002(2002-10-13) (aged 68)
Place of death Barrow-in-Furness, England
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) [2]
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Banbridge Town
Glenavon
1952 Burnley 0 (0)
1952–53 Distillery
1953–1960 Manchester City 127 (62)
1960–1961 Bolton Wanderers 44 (26)
1961–1962 Leeds United 11 (3)
1962–1964 Brentford 75 (36)
1964–1966 Queens Park Rangers 33 (11)
1966–1968 Barrow 53 (9)
Netherfield
Total343(147)
International career
1954–1962 Northern Ireland 15 (7)
Managerial career
1977 Barrow (joint manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William John McAdams (20 January 1934 – 13 October 2002) was a Northern Irish footballer who played in the inside forward position.

Contents

Club career

On leaving school at 15, he took an apprenticeship as a heating engineer and played as an amateur. At 17, he went to Burnley for a successful three-month trial but his father wouldn't agree to the terms offered. So he went back to Ireland where he signed professional forms for Distillery (Charles Buchan's Football Monthly, Jan 1967). He then played for Manchester City between 1953 and 1959, making 134 appearances and scoring 66 goals. [3] This was in spite of not kicking a ball for two years because of a back injury which caused him to miss two FA Cup Finals. He scored in 10 consecutive matches between 9 October 1957 and 7 December 1957 (12 goals). He didn't score on 14 December 1957 but in his next match on 1 January 1958 he scored a hat-trick. (source www.statcity.co.uk)

He then signed for Bolton Wanderers who hoped he could be successor to Nat Lofthouse. [4] In his first season with the team he scored 18 goals in 27 appearances. Don Revie brought him to Leeds but he only stayed briefly before forming part of an all-International inside forward line at Brentford for the 1962–63 season. [5] Brentford won the 4th Division Championship with McAdams scoring 23 goals in 37 appearances. [6] He then went on to score goals for Queens Park Rangers and Barrow whom he assisted to gain promotion from Division Four at the end of the 1966–67 season, [1] the first of two at Holker Street.

International

He also won 15 caps for Northern Ireland scoring 7 goals in the process. [2] Most memorably, he scored 3 goals in a 1960 World Cup Qualifier against West Germany although Northern Ireland lost the match 4–3. [2] Terry Neill (Revelations of a Football Manager1985), in remembering his own Northern Ireland days, refers to McAdams as one of "'the toothless ones', those players who had a habit of leaving their false teeth lying around... We called him 'Rocky' because of his scarred appearance. Most of his scars came from footballing injuries, but the worst was caused when he leaned forward in his car one day to change the station on his radio and crashed."

Honours

Brentford

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References

  1. 1 2 "Billy McAdams". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "Billy McAdams". Northern Ireland's Footballing Greats (NIFG). Jonny Dewart. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
  3. ↑ "Billy McAdams - MCFC Players - Manchester City, Man City History - Bluemoon-MCFC". bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Overall appearances/goals record: M". BWFC Stats. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "leeds-fans.org.uk: Leeds United Player Profile: Billy McAdams". www.leeds-fans.org.uk. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  6. 1 2 White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. p. 387. ISBN   0951526200.


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