Ernie Walley

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Ernie Walley
Personal information
Date of birth (1933-04-07) 7 April 1933 (age 91)
Place of birth Caernarfon
Position(s) Wing half
Youth career
1951–1955 Tottenham Hotspur
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1955–1958 Tottenham Hotspur 5 (0)
1958–1959 Middlesbrough 8 (0)
1959–???? Crystal Palace 0 (0)
Gravesend & Northfleet
Stevenage Borough
Managerial career
1980 Crystal Palace (caretaker)
1983–1985 Barking
1992 Bangor City
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ernie Walley (born 7 April 1933) is a Welsh retired footballer player and coach.

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Playing career

Walley joined Tottenham Hotspur as a junior in May 1951, making five league appearances as a wing half before moving to Middlesbrough in 1958. [1] After eight appearances for Middlesbrough he moved again to Crystal Palace, [2] but failed to make a first team appearance before moving to Gravesend & Northfleet and subsequently Stevenage Borough.

Coaching and managerial career

After retiring as a player Walley spent eight years as a coach at Arsenal before joining Crystal Palace in the same capacity in 1967. [2] He became caretaker manager of Crystal Palace for six matches following the departure of Terry Venables in 1980. [3] After the appointments of Malcolm Allison and subsequently Dario Gradi, Walley continued as a coach at Crystal Palace. [2] He was later assistant manager to John Hollins at Chelsea during the mid-1980s, and reserve manager under Steve Harrison at Watford. His brother Tom played for Watford and Wales, and was a coach at Watford at the same time as Ernie. [4] Ernie Walley subsequently managed Barking between December 1983 until January 1985, [5] and later Bangor City for a short spell in 1992.

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References

  1. ↑ "Tottenham Hotspur: 1946/47 to 2008/08". Neil Brown. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 Purkiss, Mike; Sands, Nigel. Crystal Palace: A Complete Record 1905–1989. The Breedon Books Publishing Company. p. 57. ISBN   0907969542.
  3. ↑ "Managers". Crystal Palace FC. Archived from the original on 25 June 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  4. ↑ Jones, Trefor (1996). The Watford Football Club Illustrated Who's Who. p. 233. ISBN   0-9527458-0-1.
  5. ↑ Archive – Past Managers Archived 16 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine Barking F.C.


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