Jimmy Quinn (Northern Irish footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | James Martin Quinn Séamas Mairtín Ó Cuinn |
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| Date of birth | 18 November 1959 | ||
| Place of birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1977–1978 | Whitchurch Alport F.C. | ||
| 1978–1980 | Congleton Town | ||
| 1980–1981 | Oswestry Town | ||
| 1981–1984 | Swindon Town | 49 | (10) |
| 1984–1986 | Blackburn Rovers | 71 | (17) |
| 1986–1988 | Swindon Town | 64 | (30) |
| 1988–1989 | Leicester City | 31 | (6) |
| 1989 | Bradford City | 35 | (14) |
| 1989–1991 | West Ham United | 47 | (18) |
| 1991–1992 | Bournemouth | 43 | (19) |
| 1992–1997 | Reading | 182 | (71) |
| 1997–1998 | Peterborough United | 49 | (25) |
| 1999–2000 | Swindon Town | 7 | (0) |
| 2000 | Northwich Victoria | 7 | (4) |
| 2000 | Hereford United | 2 | (0) |
| 2000–2001 | Highworth Town | ||
| 2001 | Hayes | 11 | (6) |
| 2001–2003 | Northwich Victoria | 46 | (8) |
| 2003–2004 | Shrewsbury Town | 15 | (4) |
| 2005–2006 | Nantwich Town | ||
| Total | 659 | (232) | |
| National team | |||
| 1985–1996 | Northern Ireland | 46 | (12) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1994–1997 | Reading | ||
| 1998–2000 | Swindon Town | ||
| 2001–2003 | Northwich Victoria | ||
| 2003–2004 | Shrewsbury Town | ||
| 2005–2006 | Egersund IK | ||
| 2006–2008 | Cambridge United | ||
| 2008 | Bournemouth | ||
| 2011–2013 | Nantwich Town | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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James Martin "Jimmy" Quinn (born 18 November 1959 in Belfast) is a former Northern Ireland international footballer and is now working in management.
He was capped 46 times for his country, and is one of Northern Ireland's top goalscorers, having found the net 12 times at senior level. He also enjoyed a successful club career, scoring 210 goals in the Football League alone, and has enjoyed some success as a manager, including winning promotion to the Football League with Shrewsbury Town in 2004 and taking Reading to the brink of the Premier League in 1995.
Quinn had a club career spanning eighteen years for a number of lower division clubs, during which he was a prolific scorer at centre forward.The pinnacle of his league football career was winning the Second Division 'Golden Boot' award for the 1993–94 season, having scored 40 goals for Reading, who were promoted as champions. Quinn was known for his towering aerial presence and a keen eye for goal.
Quinn began in non-league football with Whitchurch Alport and joined Nantwich Town in the 1979 close season from where he moved on to Congleton Town. He stepped up to League football at Swindon Town, John Trollope signing him from non-league Oswestry Town for £10,000 in December 1981, the first of three spells at Swindon's County Ground. He had to wait three months for his debut, coming on as a substitute in a 2–2 draw with Walsall, on 9 March 1982. He made his full debut at the end of the season, forming an attacking partnership with Paul Rideout, in a 3–2 win over Oxford United on 4 May. Unfortunately, it did not help Swindon, who were relegated to the Fourth Division at the end of the season, for the first time in their history.
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