Eddie Baily
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Edward Francis Baily | ||
| Date of birth | 6 August 1925 | ||
| Place of birth | Clapton, England | ||
| Date of death | 13 October 2010 (aged 85) | ||
| Place of death | Welwyn Garden City, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||
| Playing position | Inside forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1938–1946 | Tottenham Hotspur | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1946–1956 | Tottenham Hotspur | 296 | (64) |
| 1956 | Port Vale | 26 | (8) |
| 1956–1958 | Nottingham Forest | 68 | (14) |
| 1958–1960 | Leyton Orient | 29 | (3) |
| Total | 419 | (89) | |
| National team | |||
| 1950–1952 | England | 9 | (5) |
| England "B" | 3 | (0) | |
| The Football League XI | 6 | (2) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1963–1974 | Tottenham Hotspur (assistant) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Edward "Eddie" Francis Baily (6 August 1925 – 13 October 2010) was an England international footballer. He was a member of the 1950 FIFA World Cup squad, and scored five goals in nine international games. He was described as one of the best inside forwards of his generation.
At club level, he played for Tottenham Hotspur from 1946 to 1956, helping the club to win the Second Division title in 1949–50, and then the First Division title in 1950–51; "Spurs" also finished as First Division runners-up in 1951–52. He scored 69 goals for the club in 325 games. In January 1956 he signed for Port Vale for a £7,000 fee, though was then sold on to Nottingham Forest for the same fee ten months later after he was criticized for being too much of 'an individualist'. He was a success at Forest, helping the club to win promotion to the top-flight in 1956–57. He moved on to Leyton Orient in 1958, before retiring in 1960. He was then assistant to "Spurs" manager Bill Nicholson from 1963 to 1974.
He was described in The Guardian as "the quintessential cheeky Cockney, a dazzling technician, a razor-sharp passer of the ball, excitingly quick in thought and movement, one of the best inside-forwards of his era".
Baily first joined Tottenham Hotspur as a 14-year-old in 1938, and found success at the club's youth set-up. He played cricket for the Essex County Cricket Club Second XI and found work at a printing company and a stock brokerage firm. During World War II he served with the Royal Scots Fusiliers, and saw service in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. After the war he signed with Chelsea, but quickly left Stamford Bridge for Tottenham Hotspur after a chance encounter with Jimmy Anderson.
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