An Owl and a White

Footballers who have played league football for both PNE and Sheffield Wednesday

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570) Ken Knighton

PNE 62 apps; 4 goals

Owls 76 apps; 2 goals

PNE debut 03/02/1968 v Plymouth (H) - Won 2-0

712) John Lowey

PNE 4 apps; 1 goal

Owls 42 apps; 4 goals

PNE debut 15/08/1987 v Chesterfield (H) - Lost 0-1

827) David Lucas

PNE 122 apps; 0 goals

Owls 69 apps; 0 goals

PNE debut 27/04/1996 v Hartlepool (A) - Won 2-0

785) Trevor Matthewson

PNE 12 apps; 1 goal

Owls 3 apps; 0 goals

PNE debut 25/08/1993 v Burnley (A) - Lost 1-4

189) David McLean

PNE 49 apps 25 goals

Owls 134 apps; 88 goals

PNE debut 06/11/1909 v Notts Co. (A) - Lost 1-3

121) Jimmy Melia

PNE 2 apps; 0 goals

Owls 7 apps; 0 goals

PNE debut 07/09/1901 v West Brom (A) - Lost 1-3

62) Harry Millar

PNE 2 apps; 0 goals

Owls 32 apps; 16 goals

PNE debut 24/03/1894 v Nottingham Forest (A) - Lost 2-4

648) Jimmy Mullen

PNE 1 apps; 0 goal

Owls 229 apps; 10 goals

PNE debut 28/11/1981 v Oxford (A) - Lost 0-3

909) Guylain N'Dumbu-Nsungu

PNE 6 apps; 0 goals

Owls 35 apps; 10 goals

PNE debut 28/09/2004 v Plymouth (H) - Drawn 1-1

405) Jackie Palethorpe

PNE 24 apps; 15 goals

Owls 28 apps; 13 goals

PNE debut 20/01/1934 v Grimsby (H) - Lost 1-2

626) Eric Potts

PNE 57 apps; 5 goals

Owls 159 apps; 21 goals

PNE debut 26/08/1978 v Sheffield United (H) - Drawn 2-2

487) Eddie Quigley

PNE 52 apps 17 goals

Owls 74 apps; 49 goals

PNE debut 17/12/1949 v Swansea (H) - Won 2-1

833) David Reeves

PNE 47 apps; 12 goals

Owls 17 apps; 2 goals

PNE debut 12/10/1996 v Stockport (A) - Lost 0-1

944) Franck Songo'o

PNE 6 apps; 0 goals

Owls 12 apps; 1 goal

PNE debut 10/03/2007 v Hull (A) - Lost 0-2

397) George Stephenson

PNE 25 apps; 16 goals

Owls 39 apps; 17 goals

PNE debut 26/08/1833 v Blackpool (A) - Won 2-1

Player Profile - Eddie Quigley

Edward Quigley was born in Bury on 13 July 1921; Eddie Quigley joined his home town club as a full-back in September 1941, but through necessity was converted to an attacker. Although on his debut as a centre-forward on 21 February 1947 he scored five goals in a 7-1 win at Millwall, his best position turned out to be inside-forward.

In October 1947 after scoring 16 goals from 42 appearances for the Shakers he joined Sheffield Wednesday for £12,000.

His debut came in a 2-0 win at home to Plymouth on 11 October 1947; his first goals for the Owls came as a brace in a 2-2 draw at Leeds.

Quigley then scored 6 goals in two matches in the space of 24 hours against the same opposition. Quigley scored four goals on Boxing Day in a 5-3 win at home to West Ham and a brace the following day in a 4-1 victory at West Ham.

Quigley scored a brace on thee further occasions during the 1947/48 season with victories over Bradford Park Avenue, Leicester and Leeds. He finished top scorer with 22 goals from 30 appearances.

The 1948/49 season saw him score a further three braces in home victories over West Ham, Grimsby and Coventry and finished with 17 goals from 34 games.

Quigley scored a brace on the opening match of the 1949/50 season with a 3-1 win at home to Leister and four goals in a 4-2 win at home to Chesterfield on 3 September. His last game for Wednesday was a 1-1 draw at Luton on 26 November 1949. He had scored 10 goals in 10 games and finished only four goals behind leading scorer Redfern Frogratt who had appeared in 20 more matches. His league career for the Owls totaled 49 goals in 74 appearances.

In December 1949, Preston paid a British record transfer fee of £26,500 for him and made his debut on 17 December in a 2-1 win at Deepdale. He scored in the next two matches in a 311 defeat at Leeds on Christmas Eve and a 4-1 win over Sheffield United on Boxing Day. Quigley finished the season with 5 goals from 20 appearances.

Quigley scored a brace on the opening match of the 1950/51 season in a 4-2 defeat at home to Manchester City and went on to score 9 league goals in 20 appearances as Preston won the Second Division Championship.

Quigley could not match his Owls' goalscoring ratio with Preston and made his last appearance in a 3-2 defeat at Aston Villa on 27 October 1950. After scoring 17 goals from 52 appearances for PNE and represented England 'B' twice against Holland and Italy, Quigley joined Blackburn for a fee of £20,000.

Although he only made 16 appearances for Blackburn in the 1951/52 season, he finished top scorer with 11 goals as Rovers finished in fourteenth position in the Second Division. He was top scorer again with netting 18 goals from 33 appearances in 1952/53 and ninth position.

Blackburn finished third in 1953/54 as Quigley scored 22 goals from 40 appearances as Tommy Biggs was the top scorer with 32 goals which he achieved in the next two seasons as well.

Quigley most successful goalscoring season was in 1954/55 with 28 goals from 40 appearances as Rovers finished in sixth position. The club rose to fourth in 1955/56 and Quigley made 30 appearances, scoring 13 goals.

In his five years at Ewood Park, he netted a remarkable 92 goals in only 159 appearances. Although Quigley was 35, it was a surprise when he was placed on the transfer list at £2,500.

After the Football League reduced the fee to £l,000, he re-signed for Bury in August 1956 where he only made 10 League appearances and 3 goals before retiring from League football at the end of the 1956/57 season with a Football League career record of 180 goals from 337 appearances.

He joined Mossley as Player-Manager in the summer of 1957. It was Quigley's first attempt at football management and his first season couldn't really have been worse. Mossley finished bottom of the Cheshire League winning only seven out of 42 games. Quigley himself scored 10 goals in 44 games. The following season 1958/59 saw Mossley climb to fifteenth position and Quigley scoring 19 goals in 42 appearances and the side also reached the final of the Manchester Intermediate Cup. Quigley scored twice but Ashton United netted six and Mossley lost.

The 1959/60 season saw Quigley's side climb to eigth place and scored 10 goals in 41 appearances. Season 1960/61 saw Mossley's best performance since the War, finishing 4th in the Cheshire League and winning the League Cup beating Tranmere Reserves 6-3 in the final . Quigley scored 9 goals in 29 appearances. Quigley's last season at Seel Park came the following term as Mossley finished in eigth place and won the old Ashton Challenge Cup for the last time beating Ashton United 5-1 on aggregate in the final. Quigley made 31 appearances scoring 7 goals and retired from playing age 41.

Quigley then returned to Bury yet again, as youth team coach, demonstrating his talents by unearthing, amongst others, Colin Bell and Alec Lindsay. In October 1965, following the departure of Trevor Porteous at Stockport, Quigley was offered his chance to manage a League club.

Over a 12-month period at Edgeley Park, Quigley put together a side that would end up Fourth Division champions In October 1966, he was offered the assistant manager's job at Blackburn, and when Rovers manager, Jack Marshall, left in February 1967 Quigley took over. Other than in that season, Rovers hardly threatened to make a serious promotion challenge and, in October 1970, with the Ewood club heading for relegation to the Third Division for the first time in their history, Quigley moved sideways to become general/administrative manager, but was sacked a little over six months later.

In May 1976, he returned to Edgeley Park and, for a short time it looked as if he could repeat his success of ten years earlier. County won five of their first six matches and were in third position at Christmas before an appalling run saw them finally finish in fourteenth position and before the season had finished he was sacked.

In 1979 he went back to Blackburn as chief scout but following Bobby Saxton's appointment as manager in May 1981, Quigley was again dismissed before moving to Blackpool in a similar capacity.

Eddie Quigley died in 1997 age 76.