Micky Droy
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Michael Robert Droy[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 7 May 1951 | ||
| Place of birth | Highbury,London,England | ||
| Position(s) | Central defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Arsenal | |||
| Hoddesdon Town | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Slough Town | |||
| 1970–1985 | Chelsea | 272 | (13) |
| 1984 | →Luton Town(loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 1985–1986 | Crystal Palace | 49 | (7) |
| 1986–1987 | Brentford | 19 | (3) |
| 1987–1988 | Dulwich Hamlet | ||
| 1988–1991 | Kingstonian | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| 1994–1995 | Kingstonian | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Micky Droy(born 7 May 1951 inHighbury,London) is an English formerfootballerwho played inthe Football Leagueduring the 1970s and 1980s, spending 15 years withChelseabut also playing forLuton Town,Crystal PalaceandBrentford.[2]
Playing career
[edit]Droy was a tall and generally uncompromisingdefender.He played for Chelsea during a particularly turbulent period of the club's history, and was a part of the sides which were relegated to theSecond Divisionin1974–75,promoted back to theFirst Divisionin1976–77,relegated again in1978–79and then promoted again in1983–84.[3]A feature onThe Times'website summed him up as "six feet four inches of hard-core centre back, who had an unsentimental way with a headed clearance and who, from 1971, gave 15 years of no-nonsense service to a mortifyingly declining side."[4]He was Chelsea's Player of the Year in 1978.[5]
After a brief loan spell withLuton Town,Droy left Chelsea in March 1985, joinedCrystal Palaceon a free transfer,[6]then joinedBrentford,before moving back tonon-league footballinitially withDulwich Hamletand then for several years withKingstonian,[2][7]where he was appointed assistant manager in September 1994,[8]before being appointed manager later in the month. Droy was removed from his post on 7 January 1995.[9]Droy later played for Chelmsford Sunday League club Priory Sports underGarry Hill,alongside former internationalsAlan BrazilandPaul Parker.[10]
Post-playing career
[edit]He ran a successful electrical business and moved toFlorida.[8][11]
References
[edit]- ^"Micky Droy".Barry Hugman's Footballers.Retrieved17 October2015.
- ^ab"Micky Droy".UK A–Z Transfers.Neil Brown.Retrieved22 October2009.
- ^"Micky Droy Chelsea FC".Football Heroes.Sporting Heroes Collection.Retrieved12 May2014.
- ^Smith, Giles (18 August 2009)."Top 50 Chelsea players".The Times.Retrieved22 October2009.[dead link]
- ^"Lamps Is Player Of The Year".Chelsea F.C. 22 April 2009. Archived fromthe originalon 10 April 2013.Retrieved12 May2014.
- ^Chelsea Football Club The Full Statistical Story 1905–1986 by Scott Cheshire and Ron HockingsISBN0-9511640-0-7
- ^Rollin, Jack, ed. (1990).Rothmans Football Yearbook 1990–91.London: Queen Anne Press. p. 282.ISBN0-356-17911-7.
- ^abLongmore, Andrew (14 November 1994)."Brady bows as paupers turn kings for a day"(reprint).The Times.Newsbank. p. 26.Retrieved22 October2009.
- ^Official Matchday Magazine Of Brentford Football Club versus Preston North End 25/09/99.Blackheath: Morganprint. 1999. p. 41.
- ^Parker, Paul (2013).Tackles Like a Ferret.Pitch Publishing.ISBN978-1909178434.
- ^Slot, Owen (29 April 2005)."Chelsea's old foot soldiers stay proudly in the ranks".The Times.Retrieved22 October2009.[dead link]
External links
[edit]- Micky Droyat Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
- 1951 births
- Living people
- People from Highbury
- Footballers from the London Borough of Islington
- English men's footballers
- Men's association football defenders
- Slough Town F.C. players
- Chelsea F.C. players
- Luton Town F.C. players
- Crystal Palace F.C. players
- Brentford F.C. players
- Dulwich Hamlet F.C. players
- Kingstonian F.C. players
- English Football League players
- English football managers
- Arsenal F.C. players
- Hoddesdon Town F.C. players