Johnny Goodchild

Career Goodchild was born in Sherburn Hill, County Durham. He worked as a miner and played for Ludworth Juniors before signing for Sunderland. He scored on his first-team debut, on 4 September 1957 in a 3–2 home defeat of Leicester City in the First Division, and produced 16 goals the following season. He then fell out of favour, and, despite scoring a hat-trick away at Leeds United in February 1961, his first game of the 1960–61 season, never appeared for the club again. Goodchild remembers "thinking to myself that if I couldn't get into the team after scoring a hat-trick away from home, I'd be on the transfer list at the end of the season. That's exactly what happened." In 1964–65, Goodchild was one of six goalscorers to reach double figures as Albion won the Fourth Division title.

He returned to the north of England in 1966, spending a season with York City and a brief spell with Darlington. He played cricket for many years in the Durham County League for Ushaw Moor CC.