Jimmy Quinn (footballer, born 1959)
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | James Martin Quinn | ||
Date of birth | 18 November 1959 | ||
Place of birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1977–1978 | Whitchurch Alport | ||
1978–1980 | Congleton Town | ||
1980–1981 | Oswestry Town | ||
1981–1984 | Swindon Town | 49 | (10) |
1984–1986 | Blackburn Rovers | 71 | (17) |
1986–1988 | Swindon Town | 64 | (30) |
1988–1989 | Leicester City | 31 | (6) |
1989 | Bradford City | 35 | (14) |
1989–1991 | West Ham United | 47 | (18) |
1991–1992 | AFC Bournemouth | 43 | (19) |
1992–1997 | Reading | 182 | (71) |
1997–1998 | Peterborough United | 49 | (25) |
1999–2000 | Swindon Town | 7 | (0) |
2000 | Northwich Victoria | 7 | (4) |
2000 | Hereford United | 2 | (0) |
2000–2001 | Highworth Town | ||
2001 | Hayes | 11 | (6) |
2001–2003 | Northwich Victoria | 46 | (8) |
2003–2004 | Shrewsbury Town | 15 | (4) |
2005–2006 | Nantwich Town | ||
Total | 659 | (232) | |
International career | |||
1985–1996 | Northern Ireland | 46 | (12) |
Managerial career | |||
1994–1997 | Reading | ||
1998–2000 | Swindon Town | ||
2001–2003 | Northwich Victoria | ||
2003–2004 | Shrewsbury Town | ||
2005–2006 | Egersunds IK | ||
2006–2008 | Cambridge United | ||
2008 | AFC Bournemouth | ||
2011–2013 | Nantwich Town | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
James Martin Quinn (born 18 November 1959) is a Northern Irish former footballer and manager.
Quinn was capped 46 times for his country and is one of
Club career
Quinn had a club career spanning eighteen years for a number of lower division clubs, during which he was a prolific scorer at
Quinn began in non-league football with
He had to wait three months for his debut, coming on as a substitute in a 2–2 draw with Walsall, on 9 March 1982. He made his full debut at the end of the season, forming an attacking partnership with Paul Rideout, in a 3–2 win over Oxford United on 4 May. It did not help Swindon, who were relegated to the Fourth Division at the end of the season, for the first time in their history.
It took Quinn another whole season before he became a first team regular. He bagged a brace in a 7–0 demolition of Kettering Town in the FA Cup, and was given his chance in the next league match, when he again scored twice against Mansfield Town. Another goal in his next game cemented his place in the starting line-up, and Quinn missed just four of the remaining matches of the season. He really shone in the FA Cup, scoring six goals in five games, including one in a 2–1 home defeat by Second Division Blackburn Rovers. His performance obviously impressed them – at the end of the season Rovers signed Quinn for £32,500.
After scoring 23 goals in 83 appearances for Rovers,
The following season, Quinn was in fine form, scoring 31 goals in all competitions. When his contract expired in June 1988, Macari did his best to persuade Quinn to stay, but his efforts proved fruitless. Quinn agreed terms with Leicester City, and a tribunal set the fee at £210,000.
Quinn's stay at Leicester lasted less than nine months, and he scored a mere six goals from 31 appearances, most of which were as a substitute. In March 1989, he moved to Bradford City for £210,000, where he scored 14 goals in 35 games before moving again in December 1989, this time to West Ham United, who had recently been relegated from the First Division. The fee was £320,000, the highest sum paid for Quinn during his career. During his time at the club, Quinn scored eighteen league goals in forty-seven games, playing a part in their return to the First Division. It was here that Quinn earned his nickname of "Jimmy the Tree", as he did not seem very mobile on the pitch although he did score a good return of goals helping West Ham return to the First Division in 1991. However, Quinn did not play in the top flight, instead transferring to AFC Bournemouth of the Third Division at the start of the 1991–92 season. Although he only spent a single season at the south coast club, he scored nineteen goals in forty-three games.
He signed for Reading from Bournemouth in July 1992. He went on to make 294 appearances for the Royals, scoring 94 goals in the process. Reading were promoted from the Second Division in the summer of 1994 with the help of 35 league goals from 34-year-old Quinn (the top scorer in the entire Football League), and were comfortable in the First Division when manager Mark McGhee acrimoniously left Reading in the following December.
In total, Quinn played 578 games in the Football League, scoring 210 goals. He also scored twenty-two goals in forty-six appearances in the FA Cup, and sixteen goals in thirty-five appearances in the League Cup. In a vote to compile Reading's best-ever eleven, Quinn was voted the best striker with 35.4% of the vote.[2] He scored five goals in his final (2003–04) league season playing for Shrewsbury, during which he turned 44 years of age.
After his League career ended, Quinn turned out for a number of non-league clubs and his career went full circle when he returned to Nantwich Town, playing for the club beyond the age of 46 and helping the Dabbers on their run to the 2006 FA Vase Final before finally hanging up his boots at the end of that season.[3]
International career
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Quinn was a full international for Northern Ireland for 11 years, winning 46
International goals
Scores and results list Northern Ireland's goal tally first
Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 16 October 1984 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | Israel | 2–0 | 3–0 | Friendly match
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2 | 16 October 1985 | Bucharest, Romania | Romania | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1986 FIFA World Cup qualification |
3 | 23 April 1986 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | Morocco | 2–1 | 2–1 | Friendly match
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4 | 11 November 1987 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | Turkey | 1–0 | 1–0 | UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying |
5 | 21 May 1988 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | Malta | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification |
6 | 27 March 1990 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | Norway | 1–0 | 2–3 | Friendly match
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7 | 8 September 1993 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | Latvia | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification |
8 | 17 November 1993 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | Republic of Ireland | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification |
9 | 20 April 1994 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | Liechtenstein | 1–0 | 4–1 | UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying |
10 | 20 April 1994 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | Liechtenstein | 3–0 | 4–1 | UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying |
11 | 7 September 1994 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | Portugal | 1–1 | 1–2 | UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying |
12 | 11 October 1995 | Eschen, Liechtenstein | Liechtenstein | 3–0 | 4–0 | UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying |
Management career
Quinn was appointed joint
He left two years later after Reading endured two difficult seasons, during which they battled against relegation. He joined Peterborough United where he scored 25 league goals in his first season and was elected to the PFA Division Three team. The downside of the season was that the 38-year-old Quinn's prolific goalscoring was not enough to achieve promotion for the Cambridgeshire club.
In October 1998, Quinn returned to Swindon as manager following the departure of
Following his departure from Swindon, Quinn had brief spells as a player at
of the Conference. In July 2001, Quinn returned to Northwich, this time as manager, although he also appeared for the club 46 times, scoring eight times.Quinn moved to recently relegated
Quinn resigned in October 2004, with Shrewsbury finding life hard back in the
After struggling with
Quinn led his Cambridge side to the play-offs in the 2007–08 season – beating
On 2 September 2008, Quinn was named as the new Bournemouth manager, replacing Kevin Bond who was sacked the previous day.[7] After 121 days on 31 December, Quinn was sacked after a run of poor results, including a 2–0 loss at home to fellow relegation battlers, Barnet.[8]
In March 2011, Quinn was appointed manager of Nantwich Town in the Northern Premier League. He left by mutual consent on 15 March 2013.[9]
Honours
- Player
Swindon Town
- Division Three play-offs: 1986–87
West Ham
- Division Two runner-up: 1990–91
Reading
- Division Three: 1993–94
- Awards
- PFA Team of the Year: 1993–94 Second Division,[10] 1997–98 Third Division[11]
- Division Three Golden Boot: 1993–94:
- Player-manager
Reading
- Manager
Shrewsbury Town
- Conference National play-offs: 2003–04
Notes
- ^ Denied automatic promotion to Premier League due to restructuring, also playoff runners-up.
References
- ^ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Jimmy Quinn (Player)". national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
- ^ "Revealed – The Royals' best-ever XI as voted for by fans on this site". Reading FC. 22 August 2005. Archived from the original on 13 April 2008. Retrieved 18 September 2006.
- OCLC 1199329275.
- Irish Times, 10 November 2018
- ^ "Quinn named as new Cambridge boss". BBC Sport. 15 September 2006. Retrieved 18 September 2006.
- ^ "Quinn Leaves By Mutual Consent". Cambridge United FC. 15 June 2008. Archived from the original on 15 September 2008. Retrieved 16 June 2008.
- ^ "Bournemouth name Quinn as manager". BBC Sport. 2 September 2008. Retrieved 2 September 2008.
- ^ "Quinn leaves Cherries". Sky Sports. 1 January 2009. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2009.
- ^ "Nantwich Town – Club Statement". Nantwich Town FC. 16 March 2013. Archived from the original on 30 May 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
- ^ Lynch. The Official P.F.A. Footballers Heroes. p. 150.
- ISBN 978-1-85291-588-9.
External links
- Jimmy Quinn at Soccerbase
- Jimmy Quinn management career statistics at Soccerbase
- Profile – Jimmy Quinn UpThePosh! The Peterborough United Database
- Jimmy Quinn The Wonderful World of West Ham United statistics