Tony Kay
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Anthony Herbert Kay | ||
| Date of birth | 13 May 1937 | ||
| Place of birth | Sheffield, England | ||
| Playing position | Left half | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1954–1962 | Sheffield Wednesday | 179 | (10) |
| 1962–1964 | Everton | 57 | (4) |
| National team | |||
| 1963 | England | 1 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Anthony Herbert "Tony" Kay (born 13 May 1937 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire) is a former English footballer who became notorious after being banned from the professional game for life following the British betting scandal of 1964.
Born in Sheffield, Kay played for Sheffield Wednesday before becoming Britain's most expensive footballer when transferred to Everton for £60,000 in 1962. Kay was capped once for England, scoring a goal in his debut match against Switzerland which England won by 8 goals to 1 in Basle.
A left-sided wing-half, Kay started his career with hometown club Sheffield Wednesday. He transferred to Everton in December 1962, signed by his former manager Harry Catterick, and soon became the team captain. Everton were a work in progress under the ownership of the Littlewoods owner Sir John Moores and had earned the tag "The Mersey Millionaires". Kay was an important part of Catterick's evolving Everton side and the following May they were crowned League Champions for the first time since 1938–39 season.
In 1964, the Sunday People newspaper broke the story that Kay, along with fellow Sheffield Wednesday players David Layne and Peter Swan, through the instigation of former Everton player Jimmy Gauld, had bet on their side to lose a match in December 1962 against Ipswich Town. The three were convicted of conspiracy to defraud, Kay on the basis of a taped conversation, one of the first times such evidence was admitted in an English court. Kay was fined £150 and sentenced to four months imprisonment. On his release, after serving ten weeks, he was banned from football for life by the Football Association though the ban was rescinded seven years later. Kay claims subsequently to have been summoned to London to explain the use of taped evidence to the Kray twins.
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