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Northern Irish footballer

Tom Brolly
Personal information
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

  1. Lindsay & Tarrant (2010), p. 518.
  2. ^ Lindsay & Tarrant (2010), p. 140.
  3. "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.

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