Jackie Maltby

Life and career

Maltby was born in Consett, County Durham. He began his football career as a youngster with Sunderland, He scored his first league goal a year later, in a 1–1 draw at home to Portsmouth for which he had been flown home from Germany where he was doing his National Service. The pseudonymous "Argus", writing in the Sunderland Echo, "fanc[ied] that few supporters would fail to take encouragement from the talented play of 18-year-olds Maltby and Godbold." Over five seasons as part of the first-team squad, Maltby scored four times from 23 appearances in senior competition, and at the end of the 1960–61 season, he moved on to Fourth Division club Darlington. He then spent two years at Bury, and played in the UTC Bowl Final as Southern Suburbs lost to Durban City. Three years later he was on the winning side as his club beat the same opponents after two replays. By the end of the 1971 season, Maltby had amassed 61 goals for the club.