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Delroy Facey
Personal information
Full name Delroy Michael Facey
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Huddersfield Town
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–2002 Huddersfield Town 75 (15)
2002–2004 Bolton Wanderers 10 (1)
2002 → Bradford City (loan) 6 (1)
2003 → Burnley (loan) 14 (5)
2004 West Bromwich Albion 9 (0)
2004–2005 Hull City 21 (4)
2005 → Huddersfield Town (loan) 4 (0)
2005 Oldham Athletic 9 (0)
2005–2006 Tranmere Rovers 37 (8)
2006–2007 Rotherham United 40 (10)
2007–2008 Gillingham 32 (3)
2008 → Wycombe Wanderers (loan) 6 (1)
2008–2010 Notts County 63 (11)
2009–2010 → Lincoln City (loan) 10 (1)
2010–2011 Lincoln City 21 (2)
International career‡
2009– Grenada 7 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:00, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:29, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Delroy Michael Facey[1] (born 22 April 1980 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England) is a British-Grenadian professional footballer. He plays as a centre forward.

Football career

Huddersfield Town

Facey began his career at Huddersfield Town, joined as an apprentice in April 1996 and turning professional in May 1997.[1] He went on to become a first team regular, playing over fifty league games and getting fifteen goals. Facey broke into the first team during the 1998–99 season after beginning his career as a trainee with his hometown club. He made most of his appearances from the bench for the first team until Lou Macari handed him his chance in December 2000. He earned an extended run in the side and scored 10 goals in 21 full starts and one as a substitute to finish the 2000–01 campaign as joint top-scorer alongside Kevin. Facey went on to make an extra 15 league appearances for Huddersfield in the 2001–02 season, before leaving the club to join Premier League side Bolton Wanderers.

Bolton Wanderers

Bolton Wanderers manager Sam Allardyce signed him on a Bosman ruling free transfer in July 2002.

After playing him in ten matches in the Premiership for Bolton (scoring twice), Allardyce decided that the young centre-forward was not yet ready for first team football and so sent him out on loan to Bradford City (where he scored on his debut against Wimbledon)[2] and then Burnley during the 2002–03 season. Whilst on loan at these two clubs he exhibited his strength and speed, grabbing six goals and managing to score a hat-trick in a 3–1 home win for Burnley against Walsall.[3]

West Bromwich Albion

This was not enough to convince Bolton to play Facey regularly, and so he moved to West Bromwich Albion in January 2004. Again he made only a limited impact, with only two league starts, and was released at the end of his short-term contract.[4]

Hull City

He then signed a twelve-month contract with Hull City.[5] Hull manager Peter Taylor chose to loan out the powerful striker back to his first club, Huddersfield. After a short and unspectacular spell at the Galpharm Stadium he left the club.

Oldham Athletic

He was then transferred to Oldham Athletic. Facey only secured a short-term deal to help try and boost Oldham's league position and so failed to secure a longer deal, preferring instead to leave Athletic.

Tranmere Rovers

He moved to Tranmere Rovers in the summer. In his first season at Prenton Park, Facey secured a first team slot and managed to find the scoresheet fairly regularly, scoring eight league goals.

Rotherham United

Following his release from Prenton Park at the end of the 2005–06 season, Facey signed for League One club Rotherham United.[6] He added considerable force to his new club's attack, scoring eleven goals in 36 league appearances. He hit an excellent run of form in March 2007, scoring four goals in three matches.

Gillingham

On 20 June 2007, chairman Paul Scally confirmed that Facey had signed for Gillingham.[7] On 27 March 2008, Facey signed on loan for Wycombe Wanderers until the end of the season.[8] He scored against former club Bradford in the last game of the season to help them qualify for the play offs,[9] where his goal against Stockport County in the semi final was not enough to put them through to the final.[10] He was transfer listed by Gillingham on 5 June 2008.[11] Two months later his contract was terminated by mutual consent.[12] Later the same day he left the club.

Notts County

Delroy signed for Notts County of Football League Two.[13] He made his debut for County against Bradford City, a club where he played on loan, in their 2–1 defeat on the opening day of the 2008–09 season.[14]

In November 2009, Facey signed a loan deal with Lincoln City, scoring his first and only goal for the club against Chesterfield.[15] The loan lasted until 2 January 2010.

In March 2010, a group of Notts County fans attempted to make the 19th March "Delroy Facey Day". However, as no request was formally submitted to Nottingham City Council or Parliament, the day has no legal standing, and cannot be declared and was not formally recognised.[16] In 2010 he was part of the Notts County team that won the Football League Two title.

On 10 May 2010 it was announced that he had been released by Notts County along with 7 other players.[17]

Lincoln City

In July 2010 he signed a deal with Lincoln City.[18] In March he dislocated his shoulder, an injury which kept him out for the rest of the season.[19] This injury hit Lincoln especially hard as Facey was at the time club captain and been an inspiration to the team. He had been made captain on January 15 for a match against his former club Wycombe. Lincoln lost that match, after which they were bottom of the League Two table. Facey kept the captaincy though and Lincoln went on to win eight of their next fifteen matches, leading Lincoln up to fourteenth in the table. After dislocating his shoulder in the dying minutes of a draw against Macclesfield, however, and subsequently missing the rest of the season, Lincoln's form dropped severely, earning only one point from their remaining ten fixtures, seeing them relegated on the last day of the season.

In May 2011 he was not offered a new contract after a mass clear out of players following the club's relegation from the Football League.[20]

International career

In 2009, Facey received a call up to play for Grenada and train with them in preparation for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup. He was in line to receive his first cap in a friendly against Panama, but after Grenada's pitch was found to be unsuitable the friendly was called off.[21] He was later named in Grenada's squad for the Gold Cup and made his international debut on 8 July in Grenada's second group match against Honduras. Facey qualifies for Grenada through his mother, who was born on the island. He was also eligible to represent Jamaica (where his father was born) and Trinidad and Tobago (where one of his grandparents was born), even earning a call up to play for the Reggae Boyz, which he could not accept due to a broken ankle.[22] Facey added to his caps during the 2010 Digicel Caribbean Cup, scoring twice for Grenada against St. Kitts and Nevis.[23]

Stabbing in Huddersfield

In March 2010 he was rumoured to be involved in a stabbing in Huddersfield. After being interviewed by the police no charges were brought against him and he was released uncharged. Notts County chairman Ray Trew said it was a case of 'wrong place at the wrong time'.[24]

References

  1. ^ a b Matthews, Tony (2005). The Who's Who of West Bromwich Albion. Breedon Books. pp. 78–79. ISBN 1-85983-474-4.
  2. ^ "Bradford 3–5 Wimbledon". BBC. 9 November 2002. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
  3. ^ "Burnley 3–1 Walsall". BBC. 4 October 2003. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
  4. ^ "Eight feel Baggies axe". BBC Sport. 2004-05-10. Retrieved 2007-06-06.
  5. ^ "Tigers sign pair". BBC Sport. 2004-06-25. Retrieved 2007-06-06.
  6. ^ "Rotherham snap up striker Facey". BBC Sport. 2006-07-04. Retrieved 2007-06-06.
  7. ^ Official Gillingham website
  8. ^ "Wycombe bag striker Facey on loan". BBC Sport. 2008-03-27. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
  9. ^ "Wycombe 2–1 Bradford". BBC. 3 May 2008. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
  10. ^ "Wycombe 1–1 Stockport". BBC. 11 May 2008. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
  11. ^ "Gillingham trio on available list". BBC Sport. 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
  12. ^ Gillingham website
  13. ^ Notts County website
  14. ^ "Bradford 2–1 Notts County". BBC Sport. 2008-08-09. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
  15. ^ "Lincoln City 2–1 Chesterfield". BBC. 26 December 2009. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
  16. ^ D-Day Competition, Notts County FC 2010-03-19. Retrieved on 2010-03-19
  17. ^ "Notts County release eight out-of-contract players". BBC Sport. 2010-05-10. Retrieved 2010-05-10.
  18. ^ "Delroy Facey signs one-year Lincoln City deal". BBC Sport. BBC. 2010-07-15. Retrieved 2010-07-17.
  19. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/lincoln_city/9426628.stm
  20. ^ "Steve Tilson clears out Lincoln City squad". BBC Sport. 11 May 2011. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
  21. ^ Delroy the International?, Notts County FC 2009-06-17. Retrieved on 2009-06-20
  22. ^ Del reveals his love for Grenada, Lincolnshire Echo 2010-09-22. Retrieved on 2010-09-23
  23. ^ [1], Digicel Football. Retrieved on 2010-11-02
  24. ^ "Three charged after man stabbed near Huddersfield pub". BBC News Online. BBC. 29 March 2010. Retrieved 29 March 2010.

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