Bill Molloy

Football career Molloy was born in Coventry and played football as a youth with St. Osburg's Youth Club before joining Coventry City as a trainee in March 1945. Although Coventry City offered him a professional contract, he turned this down to join the Army.

His military career took him to Ludgershall in Wiltshire where he was spotted by a scout from Southampton. In 1949, he was invited to The Dell for a trial as a result of which he was offered a professional contract, which this time he accepted. He made his reserve-team debut on 21 September 1949, scoring against Ipswich Town. Two "stylish" goals in a reserve match against Brighton & Hove Albion two weeks later earned him a call-up for the first team. for much of the rest of the game he was lacking pace and saw little of the ball. and was briefly on the books of Millwall in 1952 before dropping down to non-League football.

After a season with Rugby Town in the Birmingham Combination, he moved to Kent where he played for Snowdown Colliery Welfare in the Kent League for a season, followed by a season each at Canterbury City and Dover. In 1956, he returned to the Midlands to join Nuneaton Borough of the Birmingham & District League before winding up his football career at Bedworth United.

Later career

Outside football, he was a painter and decorator by trade working in the Coventry area until he retired.