Mark Weatherly

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Mark Weatherly
Personal information
Full name Colin Mark Weatherly
Date of birth January 18, 1958 (1958-01-18) (age 50)
Place of birth    Ramsgate, England
Height 6'0"
Playing position Striker/Defender
Club information
Current club n/a
Number n/a
Youth clubs
 ?
1973-1974
1974-1975		 Coventry City
Canterbury City
Gillingham
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1975-1989
1989-1991
1991-?		 Gillingham
Hythe Town
Margate		 457 (46)[1]
?
?   
Teams managed
1993-?
2001-?		 Margate
Ramsgate

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 11 June 2007.
* Appearances (Goals)

Mark Weatherly (born Colin Mark Weatherly in Ramsgate, January 18, 1958) is an English retired football (soccer) player. He spent his entire professional career with Gillingham, where he played in 457 Football League matches, a club record for an outfield player.[1]

[edit] Career

Although born in Kent Weatherly was on the books of Coventry City as a schoolboy but was not retained. He also played for non-league Canterbury City from the age of 15. After his release from Coventry, he was signed by Gillingham as an apprentice and soon found himself making his first-team debut. At just 16 years 218 days he was at the time the youngest player ever to play for the club.[1]

Originally a striker, he was switched to the defence in 1978 and played there for the remainder of his career, which saw him play in over 500 matches in all competitions for the Kent club and win the club's Player of the Year award on two occasions.[1]

In 1989 he left Priestfield Stadium and dropped into non-league football. He joined Margate in 1991 and stayed there for ten years, including a spell as co-manager in the early 1990s during which he led the club to a Kent Senior Cup final victory at the ground of his old club Gillingham.[2] He later had a spell managing Margate's local rivals Ramsgate.[1]

In 2007 he returned to Margate as reserve team manager.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e Triggs, Roger (2001). The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club. Tempus Publishing Ltd, p330. ISBN 0-7524-2243-X. 
  2. ^ The History of Margate Football Club. margatefchistory.co.uk. Retrieved on 2007-06-11.
  3. ^ Who's who. Margate F.C.. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
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