Eddie Baily

Football player infobox
playername = Eddie Baily


fullname = Edward Francis Baily
height =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1925|8|6|df=y
cityofbirth = Clapton
countryofbirth = England
position = Inside-forward
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1946-1956
1956
1956-1958
1958-1960
clubs = Tottenham Hotspur
Port Vale
Nottingham Forest
Leyton Orient
caps(goals) = 296 (64)
026 0(8)
068 (14)
029 0(3)
nationalyears = 1950-1952
nationalteam = England
nationalcaps(goals) = 009 0(5)

Edward (Eddie) Francis Baily (born 6 August 1925 at Clapton, London) is a former English footballer. He played for Tottenham Hotspur, from 1946-1956. He also played for Port Vale, Nottingham Forest and Leyton Orient. On retiring from playing he became an Assistant Manager at Tottenham.

Biography

Playing career

Eddie Baily initially joined Tottenham as an amateur in 1942 at the age of 17. A period of National Service at the end of the Second World War interrupted his playing career but he returned to Tottenham in 1947 playing his first game, still as an amateur, on January 19 that year against West Bromwich Albion F.C.. His footballing skills flourished under new manager Arthur Rowe who was developing his push and run side which at the time was challenging for promotion to the Football League First Division. [cite news|url=http://www.mehstg.com/baily.htm|title=Eddie Baily on MEHSTG site]

On July 2 1950 Eddie won his first cap for England against Spain in the World Cup finals in Brazil. He went on to play in nine International games between 1950 and 1952, scoring five goals. [cite news|url=http://www.englandfanzine.co.uk/teams/results_players.asp|title=Eddie Baily on England fanzine site|]

During his playing career at Spurs he made 296 appearances scoring 64 goals. In January 14 1956 he was transferred to Port Vale (26 games and 8 goals) and in October than year moved to Nottingham Forest ( 68 games and 14 goals) followed by a spell from 1958 at Leyton Orient (29 games and 3 goals). [cite news|url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player/eddiebaily.htm|title=Eddie Baily on Neil Brown site|]

Coaching career

In 1963 he returned to Tottenham to became the assistant manager under Bill Nicholson and remained with him during the following ten years until he relinquished the manager’s role.

He was also a P.E. teacher at Bishop Stopford's School, Enfield before joining West Ham United F.C. as a scout.

He had a testimonial match in 1993 between Spurs and Enfield F.C. on the day that Terry Venables was sacked as manager of Spurs and a large crowd turned up in order to protest against the sacking.

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