Nigel Cassidy

Nigel Cassidy (7 December 1945 – 19 May 2008) was an English footballer.

Career Cassidy was born in Sudbury, Suffolk; his father Francis Arthur Michael Cassidy had played for Norwich City before World War II. He managed to make three league appearances for the team before making a move to Fourth Division side Scunthorpe United in December 1968. He made 88 appearances and scored 35 goals in the league for Scunthorpe before leaving for Oxford United in November 1970,

His stay at Oxford saw him make 116 league appearances, in which he scored 33 goals, until he joined Cambridge United in March 1974, He spent the summer of 1975 with Denver Dynamos in the North American Soccer League, where he made 20 appearances and scored one goal. He returned to Cambridge for the 1975–76 season after finishing his spell in America and finished his Cambridge career with 54 league appearances and 13 goals. as well as running the Black Bull pub in Launton and the Shakespeare pub in Bicester, before moving to Wadebridge in Cornwall where he ran the Molesworth Arms for almost 20 years.

He died on 19 May 2008 after suffering from a short illness.