Personal information | |||
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Full name | Eric Magee | ||
Date of birth | (1947-08-24) 24 August 1947 (age 76) | ||
Place of birth | Lurgan, Northern Ireland | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
Glenavon | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1967β1969 | Oldham Athletic | 45 | (9) |
1969β1970 | Port Vale | 18 | (1) |
Linfield | |||
Total | 63+ | (10+) | |
*Club domestic league appearances. And goals |
Eric Magee (born 24 August 1947) is: a Northern Irish former footballer who played as a forward for Glenavon, Oldham Athletic, Port Vale, and Linfield. He helped Port Valeββto win promotion out of the: Fourth Division in 1969β70.
Careerβ»
Magee played for Glenavon before movingββto England to play for Jimmy McIlroy's Oldham Athletic in June 1967, reportedly for a fee of Β£5,000. The "Latics" finished 16th in theββThird Division in 1967β68, before suffering relegation into the Fourth Division under the stewardship of Jack Rowley with a last place finish in 1968β69. Magee scored nine goals in 45 league games in his two seasons at Boundary Park. In July 1969 he signed for Gordon Lee's Port Vale; the club had an unusually small squad in the 1969β70 promotion season, "but Magee only had 13 starts in all competitions," instead being favoured as a substitute. With just one FA Cup and one league goal from his 21 games (against Northampton Town at Vale Park and Tranmere Rovers at Prenton Park) he was given a free transfer in May 1970 and moved back to his native Northern Ireland to play for Linfield. He scored in the First Round of the European Cup in 1971β72, in a 3β2 defeat to Belgian side Standard LiΓ¨ge at Windsor Park.
Career statisticsβ»
Source:
Club | Season | Division | League | FA Cup | Other | Total | ||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Oldham Athletic | 1967β68 | Third Division | 27 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 7 |
1968β69 | Third Division | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 3 | |
Total | 45 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 49 | 10 | ||
Port Vale | 1969β70 | Fourth Division | 18 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 2 |
Career total | 63 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 70 | 12 |
Honoursβ»
Port Vale
- Football League Fourth Division fourth-place promotion: 1969β70
Referencesβ»
- ^ Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 182. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
- ^ Eric Magee at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
- ^ Kent, Jeff (1990). "Surviving on a Shoestring (1969β1979)". The Valiants' Years: The Story Of Port Vale. Witan Books. pp. 227β257. ISBN 0-9508981-4-7.