Nicky Bissett

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Nicky Bisset
Personal information
Full name Nicholas Bissett [1]
Date of birth (1964-04-05) 5 April 1964 (age 59) [1]
Place of birth Fulham, England
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) [2]
Position(s) Central defender
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Hornchurch
Walthamstow Avenue
1987–1988 Dagenham [3] 71 (2)
1988 Barnet [4] 16 (0)
1988–1995 Brighton & Hove Albion 97 (8)
1995 Crawley Town 1 (0)
Stamco
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nicholas Bissett (born 5 April 1964) is an English former professional footballer who made 97 Football League appearances playing as a central defender for Brighton & Hove Albion. [1]

Life and career

Bissett was born in Fulham, London. [1] He worked as a gas service engineer and played football for Hornchurch and Walthamstow Avenue of the Isthmian League and Conference clubs Dagenham and Barnet, who set a record for a transfer between non-league clubs when they paid £20,000 for his services in March 1988. [2] [5] Six months later, Second Division club Brighton & Hove Albion broke the record for a non-league player when they paid Barnet £115,000 for Bissett. [6] He became a regular in the team over his first 18 months, but he suffered a badly broken leg in a match against Swindon Town that kept him out for nearly a year. [2] [7] He returned in time to help Albion reach the 1991 Second Division play-off final, which they lost to Notts County, but broke the leg again in 1993 and suffered a knee injury the following year which effectively finished his professional career. [2] [8] He made one substitute appearance for Crawley Town, [9] and then tried his luck in minor football with Stamco, but his knee prevented his playing even at that level. [2]

He and his family relocated to York, his wife's home town, and he worked as a postman. [2] As of 2020, their sons George and Harry were playing non-league football in Yorkshire. [10] [11] [12]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Carder, Tim; Harris, Roger (1997). Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Hove: Goldstone Books. p. 29. ISBN   978-0-9521337-1-1.
  3. ↑ Harman, John, ed. (2005). Alliance to Conference 1979–2004: The first 25 years. Tony Williams. pp. 176, 179. ISBN   978-1-869833-52-7.
  4. ↑ Harman (ed.). Alliance to Conference. pp. 61, 72.
  5. ↑ Newman, Paul (11 March 1988). "Non-League Football: Wilkie betting on the boys at Barrow" . The Times. London – via PowerSearch.
  6. ↑ Newman, Paul (2 September 1988). "Big pay day for Barnet; Transfer fees" . The Times. London – via PowerSearch.
  7. ↑ White, Clive (11 April 1990). "Swindon suffer a setback" . The Times. London – via PowerSearch. Brighton's joy was offset by an injury to Bissett, their central defender, who suffered a double fracture of the leg when tackled recklessly by Shearer, the Swindon forward, in the thirtieth minute.
  8. ↑ "Laughing physio gets his reward". The Argus. Brighton. 5 May 2001. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  9. ↑ "1995/96 – Southern League Premier Division". Crawley Town Football Club History. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  10. ↑ Grayson, James (28 August 2014). "Tadcaster stars Liam Ormsby and George Bissett hoping to create FA Cup memories of their own". Non League Yorkshire. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  11. ↑ "Players: George Bissett {defender)". Pickering Town F.C. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  12. ↑ "Harry Bissett". Selby Town F.C. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
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