Terry Armstrong

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Terry Armstrong
Personal information
Full name Terence Armstrong[1]
Date of birth (1958-07-10) 10 July 1958 (age 65)[1]
Place of birth Barnsley, England[1]
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1976–1980 Huddersfield Town 40 (2)
1980–1985 Port Vale 116 (12)
Nuneaton Borough
Northwich Victoria
Total 156+ (14+)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Terence Armstrong (born 10 July 1958) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder for Huddersfield Town and Port Vale in a nine-year career in the Football League. He helped Port Vale to win promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1982–83. He later played non-League football for Nuneaton Borough and Northwich Victoria.

Career[edit]

Armstrong played for Huddersfield Town, and made four Fourth Division appearances in the 1976–77 season. He made 19 appearances in the 1977–78 season, and scored once in a 4–1 win over Doncaster Rovers at Leeds Road on 1 October. Manager Tom Johnston was then replaced by Mick Buxton, though Armstrong continued make progress in the first-team, starting 15 league games in 1978–79, and scoring once in a 2–1 home win over AFC Bournemouth on 13 March. However, he did not feature at all in the title-winning 1979–80 campaign, and was also absent throughout the 1980–81 season, before signing with Fourth Division Port Vale in February 1981.[1]

Armstrong made 17 appearances for the "Valiants" at the end of the 1980–81 campaign, and claimed goals against Hereford United and Peterborough United.[1] He featured 42 times in the 1981–82 season, scoring goals against Hartlepool United and Lincoln City.[1] He scored seven goals in 45 games in the 1982–83 promotion campaign, including a brace in a 4–1 win over Mansfield Town at Vale Park.[1] However, he and numerous other players fell out with manager John McGrath over player wages, and as a result Armstrong, Barry Siddall, Russell Bromage, and Geoff Hunter all remained on weekly contracts.[1] Armstrong hit two goals in 21 matches in the 1983–84 season as Vale were relegated out of the Third Division, despite an upturn in form under new boss John Rudge.[1] Armstrong began to be plagued by a nagging knee injury, which required a cartilage operation.[1] His injury kept him limited to just six appearances in the 1984–85 campaign, and he left the club on a free transfer to non-League Nuneaton Borough in May 1985, later moving on to Alliance Premier League rivals Northwich Victoria.[1]

Post-retirement[edit]

In April 2003, he lost his job as a prison warder at Wakefield Prison after he was jailed for 28 days for sending sexually explicit material to the husband of his former lover - an act which was in breach of a restraining order.[3] He also graffitied a motorway bridge as an insult to the husband of his former lover.[3]

Career statistics[edit]

Source:[4]

Club Season Division League FA Cup Other Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Huddersfield Town 1976–77 Fourth Division 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1977–78 Fourth Division 19 1 0 0 0 0 19 1
1978–79 Fourth Division 17 1 0 0 0 0 17 1
Total 40 2 0 0 0 0 40 2
Port Vale 1980–81 Fourth Division 17 2 0 0 0 0 17 2
1981–82 Fourth Division 33 1 5 1 3 0 41 2
1982–83 Fourth Division 42 7 1 0 2 0 45 7
1983–84 Third Division 19 2 1 0 1 0 21 2
1984–85 Fourth Division 4 0 0 0 2 0 6 0
Total 116 12 7 1 8 0 131 13
Career total 156 14 7 1 8 0 171 15

Honours[edit]

Port Vale

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 8. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
  2. ^ Rollin, Jack (1980). Rothmans football yearbook. London: Queen Anne Press. p. 198. ISBN 0362020175. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Prison warder jailed". BBC News. 28 April 2003. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
  4. ^ Terry Armstrong at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
  5. ^ Kent, Jeff (1990). "From Rags to Riches (1979–1990)". The Valiants' Years: The Story Of Port Vale. Witan Books. pp. 258–290. ISBN 0-9508981-4-7.
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