Personal information | |||
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Full name | Philip Damien Hoadley | ||
Date of birth | 6 January 1952 | ||
Place of birth | Battersea, London, England | ||
Date of death | 5 May 2024 | (aged 72)||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Central defender | ||
Youth career | |||
1967–1968 | Crystal Palace | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
1968–1972 | Crystal Palace | 73 [2] | (1) |
1972–1978 | Orient | 255 | (9) |
1978–1982 | Norwich City | 77 | (0) |
Total | 406 | (10) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Philip Damien Hoadley (6 January 1952 – 5 May 2024) was an English footballer who made more than 400 appearances in the Football League playing as a central defender for Crystal Palace, Orient and Norwich City. [3]
Hoadley was born in Battersea, London. He began his career as an apprentice with Crystal Palace. [3] He made his first-team debut on 27 April 1968, as a substitute in the Second Division match away to Bolton Wanderers. At 16 years 112 days, he became Palace's then youngest player. [4] After appearing in 88 matches in all competitions for Crystal Palace, [5] he joined Orient, in September 1971, [2] whom he captained to the semi-finals of the 1977–78 FA Cup. [6] Having played nearly 300 games for Orient, [7] his transfer to Norwich City in 1978 was the first move under freedom of contract legislation with a tribunal setting his value at £110,000. [8] [9] After three years with Norwich he moved to play in Hong Kong football in February 1982, [10] but was forced to retire from professional football following a knee injury. [8] He returned to England and became a publican. [10]
Following his professional football career Hoadley remained involved with amateur football in the Norfolk area and worked in a variety of jobs before returning to Norwich City in the 1990s as football in the community officer. [8] As of 2006 [update], he was landlord of a community-run public house in his local village. [11]
Hoadley died on 5 May 2024, at the age of 72. [12]
An independent transfer tribunal has decided that Norwich City must pay Orient £110,000 for Hoadley, a defender whom Orient had valued at £150,000. He refused to sign a contract at the start of the new season, and, under the new regulations, was able to negotiate his own transfer.
Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Full name | Philip Damien Hoadley | ||
Date of birth | 6 January 1952 | ||
Place of birth | Battersea, London, England | ||
Date of death | 5 May 2024 | (aged 72)||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Central defender | ||
Youth career | |||
1967–1968 | Crystal Palace | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
1968–1972 | Crystal Palace | 73 [2] | (1) |
1972–1978 | Orient | 255 | (9) |
1978–1982 | Norwich City | 77 | (0) |
Total | 406 | (10) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Philip Damien Hoadley (6 January 1952 – 5 May 2024) was an English footballer who made more than 400 appearances in the Football League playing as a central defender for Crystal Palace, Orient and Norwich City. [3]
Hoadley was born in Battersea, London. He began his career as an apprentice with Crystal Palace. [3] He made his first-team debut on 27 April 1968, as a substitute in the Second Division match away to Bolton Wanderers. At 16 years 112 days, he became Palace's then youngest player. [4] After appearing in 88 matches in all competitions for Crystal Palace, [5] he joined Orient, in September 1971, [2] whom he captained to the semi-finals of the 1977–78 FA Cup. [6] Having played nearly 300 games for Orient, [7] his transfer to Norwich City in 1978 was the first move under freedom of contract legislation with a tribunal setting his value at £110,000. [8] [9] After three years with Norwich he moved to play in Hong Kong football in February 1982, [10] but was forced to retire from professional football following a knee injury. [8] He returned to England and became a publican. [10]
Following his professional football career Hoadley remained involved with amateur football in the Norfolk area and worked in a variety of jobs before returning to Norwich City in the 1990s as football in the community officer. [8] As of 2006 [update], he was landlord of a community-run public house in his local village. [11]
Hoadley died on 5 May 2024, at the age of 72. [12]
An independent transfer tribunal has decided that Norwich City must pay Orient £110,000 for Hoadley, a defender whom Orient had valued at £150,000. He refused to sign a contract at the start of the new season, and, under the new regulations, was able to negotiate his own transfer.