Phil Hoadley
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Philip Damien Hoadley (6 January 1952 – 5 May 2024) was an English footballer who made more than 400 appearances in the Football League playing as a central defender for Crystal Palace, Orient and Norwich City.[1]
Career
Hoadley was born in Battersea, London. He began his career as an apprentice with Crystal Palace.[1] He made his first-team debut on 27 April 1968, as a substitute in the Second Division match away to Bolton Wanderers. At 16 years 112 days, he became Palace's then youngest player.[2] After appearing in 88 matches in all competitions for Crystal Palace,[3] he joined Orient, in September 1971,[4] whom he captained to the semi-finals of the 1977–78 FA Cup.[5] Having played nearly 300 games for Orient,[6] his transfer to Norwich City in 1978 was the first move under freedom of contract legislation with a tribunal setting his value at £110,000.[7][8] After three years with Norwich he moved to play in Hong Kong football in February 1982,[9] but was forced to retire from professional football following a knee injury.[7] He returned to England and became a publican.[9]
Later life and death
Following his professional football career Hoadley remained involved with amateur football in the Norfolk area and worked in a variety of jobs before returning to Norwich City in the 1990s as football in the community officer.[7] since 2006[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., he was landlord of a community-run public house in his local village.[10]
Hoadley died on 5 May 2024, at the age of 72.[11]
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External links
- Stats and photo at Sporting Heroes
- League stats at Neil Brown's site
- Phil Hoadley at holmesdale.net
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- 1952 births
- 2024 deaths
- Footballers from the London Borough of Wandsworth
- People from Battersea
- English men's footballers
- Men's association football central defenders
- Crystal Palace F.C. players
- Leyton Orient F.C. players
- Norwich City F.C. players
- English Football League players
- Norwich City F.C. non-playing staff