Footballers who have played league football for both PNE & Coventry
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696) Sam Allardyce
PNE 93 apps 2 goals
Coventry 28 apps; 1goal
PNE debut 23/08/1986 v Tranmere (A) Drawn 1-1
588) Jim Blyth
PNE 1 app; 0 goals
Coventry 151 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 01/05/1972 v Swindon (H) Drawn 2-2
479) Eddie Brown
PNE 36 apps; 16 goals
Coventry 85 apps; 50 goals
PNE debut 20/11/1948 v Sunderland (A) Drawn 0-0
422) Tommy Crawley
PNE 2 apps; 0 goals
Coventry 48 apps; 18 goals
PNE debut 18/09/1935 v Everton (H) Drawn 2-2
845) Julian Darby
PNE 35 apps; 1 goal
Coventry 55 apps; 5goals
PNE debut 23/08/1997 v Chesterfield (A) Lost 2-3
805) Dean Emerson
PNE 2 apps; 0 goals
Coventry 114 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 19/11/1994 v Northampton (H) Won 2-0
349) Arthur Fitton
PNE 62 apps; 18 goals
Coventry 54 apps; 21 goals
PNE debut 24/12/1932 v Southampton (A) Lost 0-1
798) Terry Fleming
PNE 32 apps; 2 goals
Coventry 13 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 13/08/1994 v Darlington (A) Drawn 0-0
879) Kevin Gallacher
PNE 5 apps; 1 goal
Coventry 100 apps; 28 goals
PNE debut 18/08/2001 v Walsall (H) Drawn 1-1
892) Jonathan Gould
PNE 55 apps; 0 goals
Coventry 25 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 18/01/2003 v Ipswich (A) Lost 0-3
Player Profile Dean Emerson
Dean Emerson was born in Salford on 27 December 1962 and began his career East Manchester before joining Fourth Division Stockport County.
His first season Emerson made 23 league appearances for County, scoring 1 goal. For the next three seasons Emerson only missed 5 league games and was named Stockport player of the year at the end of the 1984/85 season.
Emerson made 156 league appearances, scoring 7 league goals when Stockport accepted an offer of £30,000 by Third Division Rotherham in July 1985. He only missed one match during the 1985/86 season and had his most profitable season of his career scoring 7 league goals.
Emerson played in every game for Rotherham until his departure during 1986/87. After playing a starring role in a Littlewoods Cup tie Emerson joined First Division Coventry in an exchange deal worth £100,000 in October 1986. Emerson had scored 8 goals from 55 league matches for Rotherham.
Emerson made his debut for the Sky Blues on 19 October 1986 in a 1-0 win at home to Wimbledon . During the season Emerson made a further 18 league appearances.
During the 1987/88 season Emerson suffered a serious knee injury from a challenge by Gary Megson which led to three operations and to miss the FA Cup final victory against Tottenham 3-2.
Emerson played for Coventry for a further four seasons making 18 appearances in 1988/89; 12 appearances in 1989/90; 24 appearances in 1990/91 and 21 appearances in the 1991/92 season.
Emerson was freed by Coventry in May 1992 after 114 league appearances, although he didn't score a league goal.
Emerson joined Second Division Hartlepool and made a good start with his new club as they were in second position and was in a play off position in the New Year. They also beat Crystal Palace 1-0 and defeated a club from the top division for the first time in their history. But after a run of bad results and not scoring for 1227 minutes Hartlepool finished 16 in the 1992/93 season.
Emerson returned to Stockport for the second time in November 1993 after 45 appearances and 1 goal for Hartlepool . Emerson stayed for a year making 11 further appearances for Stockport.
In November 1994 Emerson joined Preston and made his debut on 19 November as a substitute for Ian Bryson in a 2-0 home win against Northampton . Emerson also came on as a substitute in the two FA Cup Second Round ties against Walsall , which after a 1-1 draw at Deepdale Walsall won the replay 4-0. His only start for PNE was on 17 December in a 1-0 win against Barnet.
Emerson was released and joined non-league Chorley . Following his departure from professional football, Emerson became a postman.