Nigel Cassidy

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Nigel Cassidy
Personal information
Full name Nigel Cassidy
Date of birth 7 December 1945
Place of birth    Sudbury, England
Date of death    19 May 2008 (aged 62)
Playing position Striker
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1966–1967
1967–1968
1968–1970
1970–1974
1974–1975
1975
1975		 Lowestoft Town
Norwich City
Scunthorpe United
Oxford United
Cambridge United
Denver Dynamos
Cambridge United		 00? 0(?)
003 0(0)
088 (35)
116 (33)
043 (11)
020 0(1)
011 0(2)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Nigel Cassidy (7 December 1945 – 19 May 2008) was an English footballer.

[edit] Career

Cassidy started his career with non-league side Lowestoft Town in the Eastern Counties League, where he played until joining Norwich City in Second Division in July 1967.[1][2][3] He managed to make three league appearances for the team before making a move to Fourth Division side Scunthorpe United in December 1968.[1][4] He made 88 appearances and scored 35 goals in the league for Scunthorpe before leaving for Oxford United in November 1970,[1] making a return to the Second Division.[1][5]

His stay at Oxford saw him make 116 league appearances, in which he scored 33 goals, until he joined Cambridge United in March 1974,[1] who were relegated to the Fourth Division at the end of the 1973–74 season.[1][6] He spent the summer of 1975 with Denver Dynamos in the North American Soccer League, where he made 20 appearances and scored one goal.[7] He returned to Cambridge for the 1975–76 season after finishing his spell in America and finished his Cambridge career with 54 league appearances and 13 goals.[1][7] He was forced to retire after an achilles tendon injury suffered in a match in 1975.[7]

He died on 19 May 2008 after suffering from a short illness.[8]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Hugman, Barry J. (2005). The PFA Premier & Football League Players' Records 1946-2005. Queen Anne Press, p112. ISBN 1852916656. 
  2. ^ LOWESTOFT TOWN. Football Club History Database. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
  3. ^ NORWICH CITY. Football Club History Database. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
  4. ^ SCUNTHORPE UNITED. Football Club History Database. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
  5. ^ OXFORD UNITED. Football Club History Database. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
  6. ^ CAMBRIDGE UNITED. Football Club History Database. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
  7. ^ a b c Nigel Cassidy. Bob and 1970-71 Footballers. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
  8. ^ "Oxford United great Cassidy dies", BBC Sport, 2008-05-21. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.