Jackie Maltby

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Jackie Maltby
Personal information
Date of birth(1939-07-31)31 July 1939 [1]
Place of birth Consett, England
Position(s) Inside forward
Youth career
Sunderland
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1956–1961 Sunderland 22 (4)
1961–1965 Darlington 115 (32)
1965–1967 Bury 57 (8)
1967–1972 Southern Suburbs
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Maltby (born 31 July 1939), known as Jackie or Jack Maltby, is an English former footballer who made 119 appearances in the Football League playing for Sunderland, Darlington and Bury in the 1950s and 1960s. He played as an inside forward. He went on to play in the South African National Football League for Southern Suburbs. [1]

Life and career

Maltby was born in Consett, County Durham. He began his football career as a youngster with Sunderland, [1] and made his first-team debut as a 17-year-old, on 10 November 1956 in the First Division match at home to Chelsea. Sunderland lost 3–1. [2] He scored his first league goal a year later, in a 1–1 draw at home to Portsmouth for which he had been flown home from Germany where he was doing his National Service. The pseudonymous "Argus", writing in the Sunderland Echo , "fanc[ied] that few supporters would fail to take encouragement from the talented play of 18-year-olds Maltby and Godbold." [3] [4] Over five seasons as part of the first-team squad, Maltby scored four times from 23 appearances in senior competition, [5] and at the end of the 1960–61 season, he moved on to Fourth Division club Darlington. [1]

He remained with Darlington for four seasons, playing part-time while working as a sports teacher, and scored 36 goals from 124 appearances in league and cups. [6] He then spent two years at Bury, [1] before moving to South Africa where he played for Johannesburg-based club Southern Suburbs in the National Football League. He was ever-present in his first season with the club, [7] and played in the UTC Bowl Final as Southern Suburbs lost to Durban City. Three years later he was on the winning side as his club beat the same opponents after two replays. [8] By the end of the 1971 season, Maltby had amassed 61 goals for the club. [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Jackie Maltby". Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "1956–57: Football League Division 1 – Match 16". thestatcat.co.uk. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
  3. ↑ "Kids are all right!". Sunderland Echo. 13 December 2004. Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "Sunderland AFC 1957/58". roker-roar.com. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
  5. ↑ "Jackie Maltby". thestatcat.co.uk. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
  6. ↑ Amos, Mike (13 December 2012). "The Clough connection". The Northern Echo. Darlington – via Newsbank.
  7. ↑ Woods, Vernon (November–December 1967). Some stats (PDF). p. 22. Retrieved 16 April 2014.{{cite book}}: |magazine= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ Woods, Vernon (October 1972). Bowl stats (PDF). pp. 22–23. Retrieved 16 April 2014.{{cite book}}: |magazine= ignored (help)
  9. ↑ Woods, Vernon (March–April 1972). Facts & figures (PDF). p. 10. Retrieved 17 April 2014.{{cite book}}: |magazine= ignored (help)
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