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Bert Goffey

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Bert Goffey
Personal information
Full name Herbert Henry Goffey[1]
Date of birth (1911-05-09)9 May 1911[1]
Place of birth Sundridge, Kent, England
Date of death 1991 (aged 80)
Place of death Northampton, England
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[1]
Position(s) Inside forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Sevenoaks Town
Higham Ferrers Town
1931 Northampton Town
1932 Bristol Rovers
Northampton Nomads
1934–1937 Norwich City 32 (9)
1937–1942 Brighton & Hove Albion 52 (9)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Herbert Henry Goffey (9 May 1911 – 1991) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Norwich City and Brighton & Hove Albion.[2]

Life and career

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Goffey was born in 1911 in Sundridge, Kent.[1] He played local football with Sevenoaks Town and then in the Northampton area with Northampton Nomads and Higham Ferrers Town, and had unsuccessful trials with Football League clubs Northampton Town and Bristol Rovers, before signing for Norwich City in late 1934, initially as an amateur.[1] He scored nine goals from 32 Second Division matches over two seasons,[2] and then dropped down a level to join Brighton & Hove Albion for a "sizeable" fee in June 1937.[1] After three months in the reserves, he displaced Jimmy Cargill from the team and established himself as first-team regular. In the 18 months before league football was suspended for the duration of the Second World War, he played in 56 matches in all competitions and scored nine goals.[1]

Goffey served as an Army physical training instructor. He was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940,[1] and went on to serve in Italy where he was mentioned in despatches in 1944. After the war, he settled in Northampton where he worked on the railway.[3] He died in the town in 1991 at the age of 80.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Carder, Tim; Harris, Roger (1997). Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Hove: Goldstone Books. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-9521337-1-1.
  2. ^ a b Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-899468-67-6.
  3. ^ "Footballer 'mentioned'". Northampton Mercury. 8 September 1944. p. 7.
  4. ^ "Herbert Henry Goffey". England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837–2007. Retrieved 28 August 2018 – via FamilySearch.