Mark Weatherly

Last updated

Mark Weatherly
Personal information
Full name Colin Mark Weatherly [1]
Date of birth (1958-01-18) 18 January 1958 (age 65) [1]
Place of birth Ramsgate, England [1]
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) [2]
Position(s) Striker, defender
Youth career
Coventry City
1973–1974 Canterbury City
1974–1975 Gillingham
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1975–1989 Gillingham [1] 457 (46)
1978 Koparit 9 (1)
1989–1991 Hythe Town ?
1991–? Margate ?
Managerial career
1991 Margate (caretaker)
1992 Margate (joint manager with Lee Smelt)
1992–1993 Margate
1993–1994 Margate (joint manager with Andy Woolford)
1995 Margate (joint caretaker with Karl Elsey)
1996 Margate (caretaker)
2001–2002 Ramsgate
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 June 2007

Colin Mark Weatherly (born 18 January 1958) is an English retired footballer. He spent his entire professional career with Gillingham, where he played in 457 Football League matches, a club record for an outfield player. [1]

Career

Although born in Kent Weatherly was on the books of Coventry City as a schoolboy but was not retained. He also played for non-league Canterbury City from the age of 15. After his release from Coventry, he was signed by Gillingham as an apprentice and soon found himself making his first-team debut. At just 16 years 218 days he was at the time the youngest player ever to play for the club. [1]

Originally a striker, he was switched to the defence in 1978 and played there or in midfield for the remainder of his career, which saw him play in over 500 matches in all competitions for the Kent club and win the club's Player of the Year award on two occasions. [1] While at the Gills he was the subject of a children's book entitled Footballer (My Job).

In summer 1978 Weatherly moved to Finnish team called Koparit. He played there two months and became the first foreign player who had played in Kuopio. After him many English players move to Kuopio and played summers there. The teams they played were KuPS, Koparit and Kuopion Elo.

In 1989, he left Priestfield Stadium and dropped into non-league football. He joined Margate in 1991 and stayed there for ten years, including a spell as co-manager in the early 1990s during which he led the club to a Kent Senior Cup final victory at the ground of his old club Gillingham. [3] He later had a spell managing Margate's local rivals Ramsgate. [1]

In 2007, he returned to Margate as reserve team manager. [4] In 2009, he became Head of Youth Development at Ramsgate.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Margate F.C.</span> Association football club in England

Margate Football Club, originally called Margate Town, is an English football club based in the seaside resort of Margate, Kent. The club's first team play in the Isthmian League Premier Division. The club was known during the 1980s as Thanet United.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lee Martin (footballer, born 1987)</span> English footballer

Lee Robert Martin is an English professional footballer. He can play as a winger or as a supporting striker for Ramsgate.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ramsgate F.C.</span> Association football club in England

Ramsgate Football Club are a football team based in Ramsgate, Kent, England. They are currently members of the Isthmian League South East Division and play at the Southwood Stadium. The main local rivals of the club are Margate who are situated just 4 miles away. When the two teams meet, it is known as the Thanet derby.

Michael Flanagan is an English former professional footballer and manager.

Paul William Smith is an English former professional footballer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">History of Gillingham F.C.</span> History of an English football club

Gillingham Football Club is an English football club based in Gillingham, Kent. The club was formed in 1893, and played in the Southern League until 1920, when that league's top division was absorbed into the Football League as its new Division Three. The club was voted out of the league in favour of Ipswich Town at the end of the 1937–38 season, but returned 12 years later, when that league was expanded from 88 to 92 clubs. Twice in the late 1980s Gillingham came close to winning promotion to the second tier of English football, but a decline then set in and in 1993 the club narrowly avoided relegation to the Football Conference. In 2000, the "Gills" reached the second tier of the English league for the first time in the club's history and went on to spend five seasons at this level, achieving a club record highest league finish of eleventh place in 2002–03. The club has twice won the division comprising the fourth level of English football: the Football League Fourth Division championship in 1963–64 and the Football League Two championship in 2012–13.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Les Riggs</span> English footballer and manager (1935–2020)

Leslie John Riggs was an English former professional footballer. He made over 350 Football League appearances, his most successful spells being spent with Gillingham and Newport County.

Robin Francis Trott is an English football player and manager.

Stephen Lovell is a Welsh former professional footballer and manager. He is currently manager of Herne Bay.

Stephen Butler is an English former footballer who played as a striker. During his professional career he played over 400 matches and scored over 150 goals for Brentford, Maidstone United, Watford, AFC Bournemouth, Cambridge United, Gillingham and Peterborough United.

Mark Lovell is an English footballer. He briefly played professionally for Gillingham. He is the son of former Welsh international striker Steve Lovell, and the grandson of former professional footballer Alan Lovell.

Karl William Elsey is a Welsh former professional footballer. His clubs included Swansea City, Queens Park Rangers, Newport County, Cardiff City, Gillingham, Reading and Maidstone United. In total he made over 450 Football League appearances.

Alfred Bentley was an English professional association football goalkeeper.

James Pinnock is an English footballer.

Robert Harrop was an English footballer who played as a centre back. He was born in Manchester and played in the Football League for Manchester United and Tranmere Rovers.

Michael Phillips is a retired English footballer who is currently an under-23s coach for National League side Maidstone United.

John O'Mara is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward. During a nomadic career, he played in the Football League for Brentford, Blackburn Rovers and Bradford City.

Jakob Andrew Hessenthaler is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for National League club Dagenham and Redbridge.

David Houston is a Scottish former professional footballer and manager. Born in Glasgow, he began his career with Welsh side Cardiff City where he signed at the age of fifteen. He made his professional debut two years later and went on to make more than 20 appearances for the club before being allowed to join Crystal Palace in 1967. However, he never played a first team game for Palace and departed the club a year later.

During the 1929–30 English football season, Gillingham F.C. competed in the Football League Third Division South. It was the 10th season in which the club competed in the Football League. Gillingham finished 21st and the club was required to apply for re-election to the League. The team lost in the first round of the FA Cup to Margate of the Kent League.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Triggs, Roger (2001). The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club. Tempus Publishing Ltd. p. 330. ISBN   0-7524-2243-X.
  2. ↑ Dunk, Peter, ed. (1987). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 174. ISBN   978-0-356-14354-5.
  3. ↑ "The History of Margate Football Club". margatefchistory.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 July 2009. Retrieved 11 June 2007.
  4. ↑ "Who's who". Margate F.C. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 31 May 2007.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.