Jimmy Goodfellow
Goodfellow playing for Cardiff City Legends in July 2009.
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | James Goodfellow | ||
| Date of birth | 16 September 1943 | ||
| Place of birth | Bishop Auckland, England | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Newcastle United | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Consett | |||
| Crook Town | |||
| Bishop Auckland | |||
| 1966–1969 | Port Vale | 85 | (10) |
| 1969–1973 | Workington | 199 | (15) |
| 1973–1978 | Rotherham United | 192 | (8) |
| 1978–1979 | 3 | (0) | |
| Total | 479+ | (33+) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1984 | Cardiff City | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
James Goodfellow (born 16 September 1943) is an English former professional footballer and manager. A midfielder, he scored 33 goals in 479 league goals in a 13-year career in the Football League.
He spent his youth with Newcastle United, but did not earn a professional contract. Instead he played amateur football with Consett, Crook Town, and Bishop Auckland; he won the FA Amateur Cup with Crook Town in 1962. He entered the Football League with Port Vale in 1966, before transferring to Workington in May 1969. He moved on to Rotherham United four years later, and helped the "Millers" to win promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1974–75. He ended his playing career after spending the 1978–79 season with . He then took up coaching with Newport County, Cardiff City, Plymouth Argyle, and Sunderland. He served as Cardiff's manager for six months in 1984, and later spent ten years working behind the scenes at the club.
Goodfellow signed for Newcastle United, despite being a Sunderland fan, but was released by the club at the age of 17 without making a first team appearance. He moved into non-league football, signing for Consett before moving to Northern League side Crook Town. In 1964, at the age of 20, he scored Crook Town's first goal at Wembley when he scored against Enfield in the Amateur Cup final victory. Goodfellow became unhappy with the way the team was selected at Crook Town, being chosen by a committee rather than the club's manager, and agreed to join Bishop Auckland when manager Lawrie McMenemy asked him to do so.
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