Gerry Young

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Gerald Young
Young in 1963
Personal information
Full name Gerald Morton Young
Date of birth (1936-10-01)1 October 1936
Place of birth
Harton, County Durham
, England
Date of death 1 September 2020(2020-09-01) (aged 83)
Height 5 ft 10+1⁄2 in (1.79 m)[1]
Position(s)
Left half
Youth career
Newcastle United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Hawthorne Leslie
1955–1971 Sheffield Wednesday 310 (13)
International career
1964 England 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gerald Morton Young (1 October 1936 – 2 September 2020) was an English

left half. He spent his entire 14-year professional career at Sheffield Wednesday. He made one appearance for England
in 1964.

Playing career

Born in

A.S. Roma
.

Young was an ever-present in the following 1963–64 season when Wednesday finished sixth in Division One. His good form earned him an England call up on 18 November 1964, against Wales.[3][4] He was called up again for the following match against the Netherlands in December 1964 but had to pull out after rupturing a thigh muscle; he missed most of the rest of that season and never got the chance to play for England again.[citation needed]

Young was part of the Sheffield Wednesday side which reached the

1966 playing in all six matches. Young's part in that final will always be remembered for the mistake he made to allow Derek Temple to score the winning goal in a 3–2 victory for Everton. Young failed to control a long downfield punt, Temple dispossessed him and ran on to beat Wednesday goalkeeper Ron Springett. Gerry Young stayed with Wednesday until he retired at the end of the 1970–71 season he played 310 league games (345 including cup games) scoring 20 goals. He formed a central defensive partnership with Vic Mobley during the period from 1964 to 1969, his final game was on 2 January 1971 in a 1–4 FA Cup 3rd round defeat at Tottenham Hotspur.[5]

After playing

Young joined the Sheffield Wednesday staff on retiring from playing in 1971, initially as coach of the second team, and later as chief coach.

Middlewood Road which stayed in business for many years.[6] He later joined the staff at Barnsley.[1] He died on 2 September 2020 at the age of 83.[7]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-907033-93-8
    .
  2. ^ "Hallowed turf of the shipyards". The Shields Gazette. 16 January 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  3. ^ Jackson, Stuart. "Season 1963-1964". The Sheffield Wednesday Archive. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Gerry Young". Englandstats.com. Retrieved 6 January 2019. Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ Jackson, Stuart. "Gerry Young". The Sheffield Wednesday Archive. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  6. ISBN 0-9547264-5-6
    .
  7. ^ "Obituary - Gerry Young". 2 September 2020. Retrieved 3 September 2020.

External links

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