Personal information | |||
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Full name | Thomas Henry Brolly | ||
Date of birth | (1912-06-01)1 June 1912 | ||
Place of birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland | ||
Date of death | June 1986(1986-06-00) (aged 74) | ||
Place of death | Sutton, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
Position(s) | Half-back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1931–1933 | Crusaders | ? | (?) |
1932–1933 | Glenavon | ? | (?) |
1933–1935 | Sheffield Wednesday | 2 | (0) |
1935–1940 | Millwall | 133 | (7) |
1945–1950 | Millwall | 98 | (1) |
Total | 233 | (8) | |
International career | |||
1937–1939 | Northern Ireland | 4 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Thomas Henry Brolly (1 June 1912 – June 1986) was a Northern Irish international footballer who played as a half-back. He spent the majority of his career at Millwall, making a total of 263 appearances and scoring 11 goals in all competitions. He spent two spells with Millwall, fighting in World War II in between. Brolly won the Football League Third Division South championship with Millwall in 1938, and reached the FA Cup semi-final in the same season. . He was capped four times for Northern Ireland, playing in two games against Wales in 1937 and 1938 and against England and Wales in 1939. Later in his career he was a trainer at Crystal Palace, Chelmsford City, and at Ipswich Town with Bobby Robson. Brolly was nicknamed "The Professor" while coaching at the Robert Browning Institute in Walworth.
References
- Lindsay & Tarrant (2010), p. 518.
- ^ Lindsay & Tarrant (2010), p. 140.
- "NIFG: Tom Brolly". NIFG. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
Bibliography
- Lindsay, Richard; Tarrant, Eddie (2010). Millwall: The Complete Record. DB Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85983-833-4.
External links
- Northern Ireland's football greats - Tom Brolly
- Millwall FC - In the beginning
- Tom Brolly at National-Football-Teams.com
- Tom Brolly at WorldFootball.net
- 1912 births
- 1986 deaths
- Northern Ireland men's international footballers
- Crusaders F.C. players
- Glenavon F.C. players
- Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players
- Millwall F.C. players
- Pre-1950 IFA men's international footballers
- British military personnel of World War II
- Men's association football midfielders
- Association footballers from Belfast
- Men's association footballers from Northern Ireland
- English Football League players