Joe Hinnigan

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Joe Hinnigan
Personal information
Full name Joseph Peter Hinningan [1]
Date of birth (1955-12-03) 3 December 1955 (age 68)
Place of birth Liverpool, England
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) [2]
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1972–1975 South Liverpool 80 (10)
1975–1980 Wigan Athletic 186 (18)
1980–1982 Sunderland 63 (4)
1982–1984 Preston North End 52 (8)
1984–1987 Gillingham 103 (7)
1987–1988 Wrexham 29 (1)
1988–1990 Chester City 54 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Joseph Peter Hinnigan (born 3 December 1955, in Liverpool) [3] is an English former professional footballer. His clubs included Wigan Athletic, Sunderland, Preston North End, Gillingham, for whom he made over 100 Football League appearances, Wrexham and Chester City. [4]

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Playing career

Hinnigan joined Wigan Athletic from South Liverpool in August 1975 for a fee of £1,200. [5] After initially struggling to make the first team at the club and being transfer-listed, [6] he turned his career around and played in 120 Northern Premier League games before Wigan's election into the Football League. [5]

As well as playing in Wigan's first ever Football League fixture, he was also the scorer of the club's first ever Football League goal, against Newport County on 2 September 1978. [5] Hinnigan soon attracted the attention of bigger clubs and was signed by Sunderland for £130,000.

Post-playing career

After finishing his playing career in 1990, Hinnigan began the first of four spells as a physiotherapist and coach with Chester City. He also worked at Wigan Athletic, Rochdale and Bury (all alongside manager Graham Barrow), before moving from Chester to become physio at Shrewsbury Town in October 2006. He became the physio at Accrington Stanley in 2008.

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References

  1. ↑ "Joe Hinnigan". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 174. ISBN   978-0-356-14354-5.
  3. ↑ Triggs, Roger (2001). The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club. Tempus Publishing Ltd. p. 160. ISBN   0-7524-2243-X.
  4. ↑ Post War English & Scottish Football League A – Z Player's Transfer Database
  5. 1 2 3 "LATICS A-Z". Archived from the original on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
  6. ↑ "Caught in Time: Wigan win election to the Football League, 1978". The Sunday Times. 26 February 2006. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
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