Brian Joy

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Brian Joy
Personal information
Full name	Brian William Joy
Date of birth	February 26, 1951
Place of birth	Salford, Lancashire, England
Position	Right Back
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1968-1969 1969-1970 1970-1972 1972-1972 1973-1976 1976 1976-1977 1977 1977-1978 1978	Blackburn Rovers Torquay United Tranmere Rovers Doncaster Rovers Exeter City San Diego Jaws York City Las Vegas Quicksilver Macclesfield Town San Diego Sockers	0 (0) 27 (0) 21 (1) 34 (1) 90 (2) 18 (0)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Brian William Joy (born February 26, 1951 in Salford, Lancashire) is an English former professional football right-back.

Joy began his career as an apprentice with Coventry City playing in the 1967/68 FA Youth Cup Final against Burnley, losing 3-2 on aggregate in the 2 home and away ties, but turned professional on joining Blackburn Rovers in August 1968. He failed to break into the first team at Ewood Park and left to join Torquay United in August 1969, making his league debut early the following season in a 5:1 win against Tranmere Rovers. He played 26 times for Allan Brown's side before moving to Tranmere Rovers in June 1970. He played the first 21 games of the following season, but then suffered a bad leg injury in a car accident losing part of his right knee cap, this injury kept him out of football for 18 months before Maurice Setters an old friend from his Coventry days, the then manager of Doncaster gave him the chance to join [Doncaster Rovers F.C.|Doncaster Rovers]] in July 1972. He joined Rovers as a right-back, but in his one season with them played in eight different positions, playing 34 games before joining Exeter City in July 1973.

After 90 games for the Grecians, scoring twice, he moved to the NASL to spend the 1976 season with the San Diego Jaws. In September 1976 he returned to the UK, joining York City, playing 18 times before spending the 1977 NASL season with Las Vegas Quicksilver. On his return to the UK he joined Macclesfield Town, spending one final season in the NASL with the renamed San Diego Sockers in 1978. He then suffured another injury set back after 5 games of the 1978 season with San Diego Sockers hurting his right knee again, that resulted in the remaining part of the right knee cap being removed by top San Diego surgeon Ed Kruesser. He then returned to playing in 1980 captaining the Cleveland Cobra's of the American ASL League and then joined the San Francisco Fog of the Major Indoor Soccer League in America scoring 9 goals and having 15 assists, before retiring from Professional Football at the end of that season.

He now lives near Edinburgh in Scotland UK and is a successful Business Man, Father and Grandfather.