Trevor Morley

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Trevor Morley
Personal information
Full name Trevor William Morley[1]
Date of birth (1961-03-20) 20 March 1961 (age 64)[1]
Place of birth Nottingham,[1] England
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[2]
Position(s)
Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1982–1985 Nuneaton Borough
1985–1988 Northampton Town 107 (39)
1988–1989 Manchester City 72 (18)
1989–1995 West Ham United 178 (57)
1992 →
Brann
(loan)		 8 (4)
1993 →
Brann
(loan)		 6 (1)
1995 →
Brann (loan)[3]
 7 (4)
1995–1998 Reading 76 (31)
1998 Sogndal 5 (0)
Total 459 (154)
International career
1984–1985
England C
 6 (0)
Managerial career
SK Bergen Sparta
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Trevor William Morley (born 20 March 1961) is an English football manager, former professional footballer and pundit.

As a player, he was a

Nuneaton Borough
.

He now resides in Norway and works as a pundit for

TV 2. He also had a spell as manager of Norwegian fifth-tier side SK Bergen Sparta
.

Playing career

Non-league

Morley is the son of a former

Nuneaton Borough with whom he won the Southern League title in 1982.[4]

Northampton Town

In the summer of 1985 Morley moved to Northampton Town for £20,000 making his debut of Burnley on 17 August 1985. His move to Northampton arose after manager Graham Carr moved from Nuneaton to Northampton, and took Morley and Eddie McGoldrick with him.[6] Morley captained Northampton,[7] as they won the 1986–87 Fourth Division championship by a nine-point margin.

Manchester City

After scoring 39 league goals in 139 appearances for Northampton, Morley was signed by manager

County Ground. The deal valued Morley at £235,000.[8] He made his debut for City 23 January 1988 in a 2–0 home defeat by Aston Villa.[9] He scored 18 league goals for Manchester City, including the equaliser at Bradford City on the last day of the 1988–89 season that meant Manchester City won promotion, a point ahead of Crystal Palace.[10] On 23 September 1989, he put City 2–0 ahead in the famous 5–1 derby win over Manchester United in the First Division.[11] When manager Machin was sacked by Manchester City chairman Peter Swales, his replacement Howard Kendall
saw no place in his side for Morley.

West Ham United

Signed by manager

Mark Ward travel in the other direction. Morley was valued at £450,000.[12]
Morley made his debut, along with Bishop, against
Blackburn Rovers, a game which saw the debuts of Lee Chapman and David Burrows and Mike Marsh who had joined following the departure of Julian Dicks to Liverpool.[20] In their first Premier League season West Ham finished 13th with Morley again the top scorer, this time with 16 goals from 49 games.[21] Other notable goals by Morley this season came in a 1–0 home defeat of Chelsea, a 2–2 home draw with Manchester United, a 4–1 away win at Tottenham Hotspur and a 2–0 away win at Arsenal.[13] In season 1994–95 Morley failed to score at all in 16 appearances. With goals now coming from Tony Cottee and midfielder Don Hutchison, Morley was allowed to leave, his last game coming on 14 May 1995, the last game of the season, in a 1–1 home draw with Manchester United. Needing a win to clinch the 1994–95 Premier League title, Manchester United could only draw, handing the title to Blackburn Rovers.[22]
Morley scored 70 goals in 215 league and cup appearances for the Upton Park club.[13] He was voted Hammer of the Year in 1994.[23]

Reading

Prior to joining Reading in the summer of 1995, Morley played on loan at SK Brann for his third summer stint.[24] In 1996 Morley suffered a severe head injury playing against

League Cup and put Reading in the quarter-finals.[26] He also played for Sogndal
in 1998.

Personal life

Morley was stabbed by his wife in 1991, he later speculated that she was behind false accusations of him being in a

homosexual relationship with friend and teammate Ian Bishop. Morley stated "The rumours about me being gay killed me for a while. I've got nothing against gays – I now have friends who are gay – but it's not nice to be called a homosexual when you aren't one. How many times does Robbie Williams have to come out and tell the world he isn't gay? The more you say it, the more people start to believe it's true... It ruined my football for a while. I'd go out onto the field and hide. I didn't want to be there... Hearing gay comments from some West Ham fans was hard to take."[27]

He later had a spell scouting for Arsenal in Norway and, in 2000, took on the manager's role at SK Bergen Sparta of the Norwegian Fifth Division.[28]

He currently lives in Norway, where he runs a not for-profit shelter for addicts and works as a football pundit for

TV 2.[29]

Honours

Individual

References

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  5. ^ "STEELMEN BOSS BLAMES HIS PLAYERS". Non League Daily. 30 April 2002. Archived from the original on 30 January 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
  6. ^ Paul Newman (21 November 1986). "Non-League Football: Troubled Nuneaton face a fight for survival". The Times.
  7. ^ David Powell (20 December 1986). "From part-time to the big time with Northampton". The Times.
  8. ^ "Villa and Watford hands off". The Times. 21 January 1988.
  9. ^ "MCFCPLAYERS – Trevor Morley". bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  10. ^ "MCFCMATCHES – Bradford City vs Manchester City". bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  11. ^ "Manchester City 5–1 Manchester United special: unseen pictures of David Oldfield, Trevor Morley, Gary Pallister and Co – Archive". MirrorFootball.co.uk. 23 September 1989. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
  12. ^ "Goddard returns home in record move to Millwall". The Times. 29 December 1989.
  13. ^ a b c "Welcome to the Wonderful World of West Ham United Statistics – Trevor Morley". westhamstats.info. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  14. ^ "2nd Division 1990–91". westhamstats.info. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
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  22. ^ Herbert, Ian (12 May 2012). "Ferguson offers respect as Mancini prepares to seize crown". The Independent. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
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  24. ^ "Forsiden – Sportsklubben Brann". Brann.no. Retrieved 29 April 2010.
  25. ^ "Doc cut from ear to ear and then peeled back my scalp". thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  26. ^ "Football: Graham embarrassed by Morley's glory". The Independent. 19 November 1997. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  27. ^ "West Ham striker Morley says gay rumours almost killed his game". 11 September 2009.
  28. ^ "Gamle helter vil skape nye | bt.no". Fotball.bt.no. Retrieved 29 April 2010.
  29. ^ (in Norwegian)"Arsenal er modne nok til å slå United". tv2sporten.no. 13 December 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
  30. ^ Lynch. The Official P.F.A. Footballers Heroes. p. 146.
  31. ^ Lynch. The Official P.F.A. Footballers Heroes. p. 148.
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