Gary Williams (footballer, born 1959)

Gary Williams (born 14 May 1959) is an English former professional footballer.

Gary Williams
Personal information
Date of birth (1959-05-14) 14 May 1959
Place of birth Birkenhead, England
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1976–1977 Tranmere Rovers 1 (0)
1977–1980 Djurgården 41 (0)
1980–1981 Blackpool 31 (2)
1981–1982 Swindon Town 38 (3)
1982–1989 Tranmere Rovers 174 (16)
1985 → Djurgården (loan) 22 (2)
1986 → Djurgården (loan) 14 (1)
1989– Morecambe
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Blackpool

Williams signed for Alan Ball's Blackpool in the summer of 1980. He started the first 26 League games of the 1980–81 season, before falling out of the team in favour of Terry Pashley.

Allan Brown succeeded Ball in March, with Blackpool heading for relegation, and Brown eventually sold Williams to Swindon Town.

Tranmere Rovers

Whilst in his second spell at Tranmere Rovers, he scored the goal that kept Tranmere in the Football League. In a 1–0 win against Exeter City, 8 May 1987, the last game of the 1986/87 season, a headed goal in the 84th minute from an Ian Muir cross in front of Tranmere's biggest home crowd for many years (6,983), thus ensuring Tranmere's survival against relegation into the then GM Vauxhall Conference, a fate which was to land on Lincoln City.[1]

References
  1. Bishop, Peter (19 August 2010). "History". The Cowsheds. Archived from the original on 10 February 2011. Retrieved 7 December 2011.


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