Tommy Wright

Thomas Wright (20 January 1928 – 5 May 2011 ) was a Scottish footballer who played for Sunderland and the Scotland national football team as a midfielder.

Club career He started his professional footballing career with Partick Thistle, where he made 35 appearances scoring 20 goals ranging from 1946 until 1949. From Partick Thistle, he joined Sunderland in 1949, He was part of the Sunderland team that finished third in the 1949–50 season and played regularly. Overall, in his Sunderland career he scored 51 goals in 170 league appearances, before moving to East Fife in 1955,

International career Wright won his first international cap for Scotland against Wales in a 2–1 on 18 October 1952 at Ninian Park. He won two further caps for his country, making it three in total, without scoring a goal. A regular at the "Whitegates Comrie" until he was taken to a retirement home in Sunderland.