Peter Doherty (footballer)
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Peter Dermot Doherty | ||
| Date of birth | 5 June 1913 | ||
| Place of birth | Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Ireland | ||
| Date of death | 6 April 1990 (aged 76) | ||
| Place of death | Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Inside-left | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Station United | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| ?–1931 | Coleraine | ||
| 1931–1933 | Glentoran | ||
| 1933–1936 | Blackpool | 82 | (28) |
| 1936–1945 | Manchester City | 119 | (74) |
| 1945–1946 | Derby County | 15 | (7) |
| 1946–1949 | Huddersfield Town | 83 | (33) |
| 1949–1953 | Doncaster Rovers | 103 | (55) |
| Total | 402 | (200) | |
| National team | |||
| 1935–1950 | Ireland | 16 | (3) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1949–1958 | Doncaster Rovers (player-manager) | ||
| 1951–1962 | Northern Ireland | ||
| 1958–1960 | Bristol City | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Peter Dermot Doherty (5 June 1913 – 6 April 1990) was a Northern Ireland international footballer and manager who played for several clubs, including Manchester City and Doncaster Rovers.
An inside left, he was one of the top players of his time, winning a league title with Manchester City, an F.A. Cup final with Derby County in which he scored, and gained 16 caps for Ireland. His later career saw him as the central figure as player and manager during Doncaster Rovers most successful era. At the same time he managed Northern Ireland, leading them to their most successful achievement reaching the quarter finals of the World Cup in 1958. He was in the first group of 22 players to be inducted into the English Football Players Hall of Fame.
Born in Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Doherty began his career with Glentoran in the Irish League. After helping Glentoran to the 1933 Irish Cup, early in the 1933–34 season Doherty joined English club Blackpool, at the age of 19. He joined Manchester City on 19 February 1936 for a then-club record of £10,000. Blackpool needed the money urgently, and Doherty was summoned from his lunch to report to Bloomfield Road. The Irishman tried hard to persuade Blackpool directors that he did not wish to leave the club, for he was due to marry a local girl and had just bought a new house in the town. The fee was an exceptionally high transfer fee for the period; it came within £1,000 of the British record. Doherty's Manchester City debut, against Preston North End, was not a successful one. Tightly man-marked by Bill Shankly throughout, he failed to make an impact, leading to one catcall from the crowd of "Ten thousand pounds? More like ten thousand cigarette cards". Doherty later described the remainder of his first Manchester City season as "uneventful", but his second was to be anything but.
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