Footballers who have played league football for PNE & Blackburn
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477) Langton Bobby
PNE 55 apps; 14 goals
Rovers 107 app; 24 goals
PNE debut 21/08/1948 v Portsmouth (H) – Drawn 2-2
994) Linganzi Kouba Amine
PNE 1 app; 0 goals
Rovers 2 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 15/01/2011 v Leicester (H) – Drawn 1-1
713) Lowey John
PNE 4 apps; 1 goal
Rovers 141 apps; 14 goals
PNE debut 15/08/1987 v Chesterfield (H) – Lost 0-1
1023) Marrow Alex
PNE 4 apps; 0 goals
Rovers 3 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 28/01/2012 v Yeovil (A) – Lost 1-2
964) McEveley Jay
PNE 7 apps; 0 goals
Rovers 18 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 30/09/2008 v Swansea (H)– Lost 0-2
831) Mimms Bobby
PNE 27 apps; 0 goals
Rovers 128 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 07/08/1996 v Bristol City (A) – Lost 1-2
548) Napier Kit
PNE 1 app; 0 goals
Rovers 54 apps; 10 goals
PNE debut 02/09/1963 v Oldham (A) – Lost 0-3
722) Patterson Mark
PNE 55 apps; 19 goals
Rovers 101 apps; 20 goals
PNE debut 27/08/1988 Port Vale (H) – Lost 1-3
488) Quigley Eddie
PNE 52 apps; 17 goals
Rovers 159 apps; 92 goals
PNE debut 17/12/1949 v Swansea (H) – Won 2-1
712) Rathbone Mick
PNE 91 apps; 4 goals
Rovers 273 apps; 2 goals
PNE debut 15/08/1987 v Chesterfield (H) – Lost 0-1
104) Smith George
PNE 28 apps; 1 goal
Rovers 58 apps; 4 goals
PNE debut 16/091899 v Stoke (A) – Lost 1-3
135) Smith Percy
PNE 240 apps; 94 goals
Rovers 172 apps; 5 goals
PNE debut 06/091902 v Arsenal (H) – Drawn 2-2
781) Sulley Chris
PNE 21 apps; 1 goal
Rovers 134 apps; 3 goals
PNE debut 14/08/1993 v Crewe (H) – Lost 0-2
614) Taylor Roy
PNE 3 apps; 0 goals
Rovers 3 apps; 1 goal
PNE debut 04/10/1975 v Chesterfield (A) – Lost 0-3
975) Treacy Keith
PNE 55 apps; 9 goals
Rovers 12 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 0/202/2010 v Barnsley (H) – Lost 1-4
979) Ward Elliott
PNE 4 apps; 0 goals
Rovers 3 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 27/03/2010 v Q.P.R. (H) – Drawn 2-2
444) Wharton Jackie
PNE 28 apps; 7 goals
Rovers # apps; 76 goals
PNE debut 26/08/1939 v Leeds (H) – Drawn 0-0
968) Williamson Lee
PNE 5 apps; 1 goal
Rovers 79 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 04/04/2009 v Bristol City (A) – Drawn 1-1
Player Profile – Chris Sulley
Christopher Stephen "Chris" Sulley was born on 3 December 1959 in Camberwell. He started his career with Chelsea but failed to make a senior appearance at Chelsea under Danny Blanchflower or Geoff Hurst and suffered relegation from Division One in 1978/79.
He moved on to Fourth Division side Bournemouth in March 1981. Sulley made his debut as a substitute in a 3-3 draw at home to Darlington on 14 March 1980. His full debut came a week later in a 1-1 draw at Mansfield. In total he made 8 appearances during the season for the Cherries.
In his first full season for the Cherries David Webb’s side won promotion to the Third Division after occupying the final promotion place in 1981/82. In 1986/87 Bournemouth won 19 of their 23 league games at Dean Court and became Third Division champions. Sulley was an ever-present during the season.
He was an ever-present in the 1982/83 campaign and scored his first goal in a 2-2 draw at home to Doncaster on 2 May.
For the third season running he was an ever-present again in 1983/84, scoring twice. A 3-2 defeat at Oxford on 25 February and a 3-2 victory over Orient on 24 April was the matches he scored in.
For the following two seasons Sulley made a further 60 appearances. After making over 206 league appearances for Bournemouth, netting 3 goals he moved to Scotland to join Dundee United. 1986. His last match for Bournemouth was a 3-0 win at Wolves on 12 April 1986.
He featured only 8 times for manager Jim McLean at Dundee United, including one appearance at the very beginning of the club's UEFA Cup run to the final.
Sulley returned to England within three months with Blackburn for £15,000 after a loan spell.
His debut was a 3-0 home win over Ipswich on 11 January 1987 in the Full Members Cup Semi Final. Eighteen days later he won the Full Members Cup at Wembley in 1987 against Charlton with the only goal scored by ex PNE player Colin Hendry.
He played in play-off matches for three seasons on the trot with Blackburn, but lost to former club Chelsea in 1987/88, and in the final against Crystal Palace 1988/89. The third successive play-off appearance in1989/90 Rovers lost to Swindon. His 100th league match came in a 2-0 victory over Newcastle on 24 March 1990.
Bankrolled by Jack Walker, new manager Kenny Dalglish finally took Rovers into the top-flight via the play-offs with victory over Leicester 1–0 in the final. In his six years with Blackburn, Sulley made 134 league appearances and three goals. All three goals came in the 1990/91 season. The first was a penalty in a 3-1 win at Leicester on 26 January, he netted a penalty in his next match in a 1-1 home draw against Portsmouth on 9 February. The third league goal for Sulley was the only goal at Barnsley on 23 April 1991.
Sulley moved to John Rudge’s Port Vale in July 1992, and played 53 games in league and cup in 1992/93, though he missed both the League Trophy finals at Wembley.
Sulley joined Preston on a free transfer in June 1993 and made his debut in a 2-0 home defeat to Crewe on 14 August. His only PNE goal came in a 3-1 win at Deepdale against Torquay on 12 March 1994. But there was one last play-off disappointment as the Lilywhites lost 4– 2at Wembley. He made 21 league appearances for the club.
After retiring in 1994, Sulley took up a coaching post with Preston at their Centre of Excellence in 1995. From there, he moved back to Blackburn and then Bolton originally as under-19s coach. In March 2008 he left his position at Bolton after over eight years at the helm.
He regularly does guest lectures at the UCLAN about his motivational skills he used whilst at Bolton.
On 1 March 2011 Sulley was appointed as director of the Leeds academy but left in April 2012. He is currently at Everton as Joint Head of Coaching/Coach Developer – Pre-Academy to U13