Jim McAnearney

Club career After playing for St Stephen's, He made his professional debut on 24 February 1954, scoring 10 goals in 40 games in all competitions, and spending a total of eight years with the club. before leaving for Watford in November 1963. He scored 5 goals in 50 games in all competitions for Bradford City.

He scored 68 goals in 304 league appearances.

Coaching career He gained his full FA Coaching Badge in 1958, at the age of 23, one of the youngest players to do so. While playing for Bradford City spent a brief spell managing the club alongside Tom Hallett in early 1968, following the sudden death of manager Grenville Hair in March and before Jimmy Wheeler was appointed as the new permanent manager in June. He left Bradford to join Rotherham United in May 1968, He later worked as a coach at Sheffield Wednesday (where he was also caretaker manager after the departure of Steve Burtenshaw

Later life After his coaching career finished in the 1970s, McAnearney founded a tool engineering/machine company in Sheffield. He died on 14 March 2017, at the age of 81.