Brian Joicey
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 19 December 1945 | ||
| Place of birth | Winlaton, England | ||
| Playing position | Centre forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Ashington | |||
| – | Blyth Spartans | ||
| – | Tow Law Town | ||
| – | North Shields | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1969–1971 | Coventry City | 39 | (9) |
| 1971–1976 | Sheffield Wednesday | 145 | (48) |
| 1976–1978 | Barnsley | 93 | (43) |
| 1978–? | Bakewell Town | ||
| Frickley Athletic | |||
| Matlock Town | |||
| Total | 277 | (100) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Brian Joicey was a professional footballer who played for Coventry City, Sheffield Wednesday and Barnsley, England, in a career that lasted from 1969 to 1979. Joicey was a forward who did not play league football until he was 23 years old. In professional football he made 277 appearances and scored 100 goals. Following his football league career he returned to high level non league football.
Brian Joicey was born in the Winlaton area of Blaydon, Tyne and Wear on 19 December 1945. He played as a youth for Clara Vale On leaving school he played for the Northern League clubs Ashington, Blyth Spartans and Tow Law Town. He started to make a name for himself as a footballer when playing as an amateur for North Shields in the late 1960s. He was a member of the North Shields team that won the Northern League and the FA Amateur Cup in the 1968–69 season, Joicey scored one of the goals which beat Sutton United 2–1 at Wembley Stadium to win the Amateur Cup that season and made a major contribution, scoring 44 goals as the team finished top of the Northern League.
Joicey's success with North Shields alerted some professional league clubs and he surprisingly signed for First Division Coventry City in preference to Newcastle United for the start of the 1969–70 season, he made 39 league appearances and scored nine goals in his two full seasons with Coventry as they finished sixth in Division One in his first season with the club and qualified for the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Joicey scored a goal in the Fairs Cup victory over Trakia Plovdiv at Highfield Road in October 1970. During his time with Coventry Joicey was never an automatic selection for the first team and played a large amount of reserve team football as Neil Martin was preferred as first choice centre forward.
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