Ray Price (footballer)

Raymond Price (18 May 1944 – 18 November 1990) was an English footballer who played in the Football League as a full-back for Norwich City and Colchester United.

Ray Price
Personal information
Full name Raymond Price[1]
Date of birth (1944-05-18)18 May 1944[1]
Place of birth Hetton-le-Hole, England[1]
Date of death 18 November 1990(1990-11-18) (aged 46)[1]
Place of death Grimsby, England[2]
Height 5 ft 10.5 in (1.79 m)[2]
Position(s) Full-back
Youth career
Norwich City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1963–1964 Norwich City 1 (0)
1964–1967 Colchester United 17 (0)
Chelmsford City
Total 18 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Born in Hetton-le-Hole, Price began his career as a junior at Norwich City where he made one Football League appearance on 29 February 1964 in a 2–1 away defeat to Derby County,[3] replacing regular left-back Joe Mullett who was suffering from tonsillitis.[2]

Price moved to Colchester United in the summer of 1964.[2] After making his debut on 6 February 1965 in a 3–1 defeat to Oldham Athletic at Boundary Park,[4] he failed to establish himself in the first-team, with his most notable contribution being the first-ever substitute used by the U's when he came on for Ted Phillips in a 2–0 home win over Rochdale on 19 September 1965.[2] He made 17 appearances for the club,[5] with his final game a 0–0 draw with Gillingham on 11 March 1967.[6]

Released in the summer of 1967, Price joined Chelmsford City before returning to Norwich to set up a successful badminton club. He then relocated to Lincolnshire where he was working as an insurance salesman when he suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 46.[2]

References
  1. "Colchester United – Player profile". Coludata.co.uk. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  2. Whitehead, Jeff; Drury, Kevin (2008). The Who's Who of Colchester United: The Layer Road Years. Derby: Breedon Books. pp. 194, 195. ISBN 978-1-85983-629-3.
  3. "SING UP THE RIVER END!: Debutants 1964". Sing Up The River End!. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  4. "Colchester United – Match details – Oldham Athletic 3–1 Colchester Utd". Coludata.co.uk. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  5. "RAY PRICE". Post War English & Scottish Football League A – Z Player's Database. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  6. "Colchester United – Match details – Colchester Utd 0–0 Gillingham". Coludata.co.uk. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  • Ray Price at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database
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