Barry Bridges	Chelsea FC 4 appearances, 1 goal P 4 W 1 D 2 L 1 F 6: A 6 50% successful 1965-66 disciplined: none captain: none minutes played: 360
Profile
Full name	Barry John Bridges
Born	29 April 1941 in Horsford, Norfolk [registered in Norwich Outer, June 1941].
Height/Weight	5' 9½", 11st. 10½lbs [1965].
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com
Club Career
Club(s)	Played schoolboy football in Norwich and Norfolk before joining Chelsea FC as an amateur in July 1956, and joining the Stamford Bridge groundstaff. He turned professional in May 1958 and went on to play 178 league matches, scoring eighty goals before he was transferred to Birmingham City FC in May 1966 for £55,000, and he scored 36 goals in 83 league appearances. Queen's Park Rangers FC signed Bridges in August 1968 for £50,000. 72 league appearances followed, with a return of 31 goals. In September 1970, Millwall FC signed him for a £40,000 transfer fee, and he returned 77 league appearances with 27 goals. In August 1972, Brighton & Hove Albion FC signed Bridges for £28,000. He played in a final 66 league matches and scored fourteen goals. After which he spent time with South African club, Highland Park FC in 1974 and onto Republic of Ireland, become the player-manager at St. Patrick's Athletic FC in 1976 until 1978.
Club honours	Football League Cup winners 1964-65;
Individual honours	Football League (one appearance)
Distinctions	None
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].
Management Career
Club(s)	After ending his player career at St Patrick's Athletic FC in 1978, Bridges took over as manager of Sligo Rovers FC. He returned to Norfolk and managed Dereham Town FC, then King's Lynn FC in 1979-80 and then Horsford FC of the Anglian Combination from June 1980.
England Career
Player number	One of three who became the 834th players (836) to appear for England.
Position(s)	Centre-forward
First match	No. 387, 10 April 1965, England 2 Scotland 2, a British Championship match at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London, aged 23 years 346 days.
Last match	No. 393, 20 October 1965, England 2 Austria 3, a friendly match at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London, aged 24 years 174 days.
Major tournaments	World Cup Finals 1966 (withdrew injured); British Championship 1964-65;
Team honours	British Championship winners 1964-65;
Individual honours	England Youth, England schoolboy.
Distinctions	Part of the FA Tour of Australia in 1971. Only the fifth Norfolkian to represent England.
Beyond England
When he returned to Norfolk from Ireland, as well as sustaining his management career, he had a milk round in his native Horsford. Barry ran a hotel on the Sussex coast before taking over the running of his grandfather's farm. He sold both businesses to buy a paper shop in West Earlham. Now semi-retired, living in Taverham providing respite care for children with special needs. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.45./WhereAreTheyNow?

Barry Bridges - Match History
Club: Chelsea F.C. - 4 full appearances manager: Alf Ramsey - 4 full capsx
Age 23
1	387	10 April 1965 - England 2 Scotland 2, Empire Stadium, Wembley	BC	HD	Start	9
Age 24
2	388	5 May 1965 - England 1 Hungary 0, Empire Stadium, Wembley	Fr	HW	Start	9
3	389	9 May 1965 - Yugoslavia 1 England 1, Stadion Crvena zvezda, Beograd	tour	AD	Start 22	9
-	390	12 May 1965 - West Germany 0 England 1, Städtisches Stadion, Nürnberg		AW	squad
-	391	16 May 1965 - Sweden 1 England 2, Nya Ullevi Stadion, Göteborg		AW
4	393	20 October 1965 - England 2 Austria 3, Empire Stadium, Wembley	Fr	HL	Start	9
Club: Birmingham City F.C. - 0 full appearances
Age 25
Alf Ramsey named his provisional list of forty players on April 7. He then named a provisional squad of 28 on 6 May to attend Lilleshall. Barry Bridges was injured before the squad was named.

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