Eddie Baily
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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.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] 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. [1]
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.[2]
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 Forrest ( 68 games and 14 goals) followed by a spell from 1958 at Leyton Orient (29 games and 3 goals).[3]
[edit] 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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