Archie Styles

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Archie Styles
Personal information
Full name	Arthur Styles
Date of birth	3 September 1949 (1949-09-03) (age 58)
Place of birth	Liverpool, England
Playing position	Left back (retired)
Youth clubs
1965–1967	Everton
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1967–1974 1974–1978 1978–1979 1979–1980	Everton Birmingham City Peterborough United Portsmouth	23 (0) 74 (4) 32 (1) 28 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Arthur Styles (born 3 September 1949), known as Archie Styles, is an English former professional association footballer who played as a left back. He made more than 150 appearances in the Football League for several different clubs.

Styles was born in Liverpool, and joined home-town club Everton on leaving school in 1965. He won representative honours for England at schoolboy and youth level. He was unable to make himself a regular part of Everton's first team, making only 23 league appearances in seven years at the club. In February 1974, together with Howard Kendall, he moved from Everton to Birmingham City in part-exchange for Bob Latchford, the whole deal valuing Latchford at £350,000 which was at the time a British transfer record.^[1] At Birmingham, facing competition from Garry Pendrey and others, he failed to establish himself as first choice at left back. In 1978 he moved to Peterborough United where he spent one season, followed by one season at Portsmouth, after which he joined the coaching staff at the club.

[edit] References

• Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books, p. 127, 209–13. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9. 

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Profile at Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database

Persondata
NAME	Styles, Archie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Styles, Arthur
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Professional footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	1949-09-03
PLACE OF BIRTH	Liverpool, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH