Graham Paddon

Graham Paddon
Personal information

Full name	Graham Charles Paddon^[1]
Date of birth	(1950-08-24)24 August 1950^[1]
Place of birth	Manchester, England^[1]
Date of death	19 November 2007(2007-11-19) (aged 57)
Place of death	Norfolk, England
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1968–1969	Coventry City	5	(1)
1969–1973	Norwich City	162	(19)
1973–1976	West Ham United	115	(11)
1976–1981	Norwich City	128	(6)
1978	→ Tampa Bay Rowdies (loan)	25	(5)
1981	→ Millwall (loan)	5	(1)
1982–1984	Eastern AA
1984–1985	Alfreton Town	29	(0)
Total		469	(43)
National team
1976	England U23	1	(1)
Teams managed
1991	Stoke City (Caretaker manager)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Graham Charles Paddon (24 August 1950 – 19 November 2007) was an English footballer who played as a midfielder for Coventry City, Millwall, Norwich City and West Ham United.^[1]

Playing career

Paddon was born in Manchester where he studied at Chorlton Grammar School before beginning his career with Coventry City where he made five League appearances for scoring one goal, before signing for Norwich City in October 1969 for £25,000. He played with the promotion winning team of 1972, and the team that reached the 1973 League Cup Final.

After 290 League appearances and 25 goals for the Canaries, Paddon joined West Ham United for £170,000 in 1973 in a deal which saw Ted MacDougall move the other way. He made 150 League and cup appearances and scored 20 goals in his three years at West Ham, featuring in the 1975 FA Cup Final and the 1976 European Cup Winners' Cup Final.

Paddon rejoined Norwich for £110,000 in November 1976, and later played in the United States with the Tampa Bay Rowdies.^[2] He even scored a goal against Norwich in an indoor friendly between the two sides on May 3, 1978 in St. Petersburg, Florida.^[3] On his return to England, he had a spell at Millwall where he made five League appearances and scored one goal. He finished his career in Hong Kong with Eastern AA.

Coaching career

In August 1985, Paddon joined the coaching staff at Portsmouth, working under Alan Ball. He moved to Stoke City to become Ball's assistant in October 1989. After Ball had been sacked in February 1991 Paddon was given the role as Caretaker manager up until the end of the 1990–91 season.^[1] Stoke finished in 14th place in the Third Division which was unfortunately for Paddon Stoke's worst ever league finish.^[1] He returned to Portsmouth to work as Jim Smith's number two in the spring of 1991. In March 1995, the pair were sacked and Paddon later worked as a scout for Derby County, again under Jim Smith.

Paddon died at his home in Norfolk on 19 November 2007.^[4]

Career statistics

As a player

Sourced from The English National Football Archive

Club	Season	League			FA Cup		League Cup		Other^[A]		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Coventry City	1968–69	First Division	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	1969–70	First Division	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1
	Total		5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	1
Norwich City	1969–70	Second Division	30	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	31	2
	1970–71	Second Division	40	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	45	1
	1971–72	Second Division	40	8	1	0	5	2	0	0	46	10
	1972–73	First Division	38	7	3	0	7	5	6	0	54	12
	1973–74	First Division	14	1	1	0	2	0	5	2	22	3
	Total		162	19	7	0	18	7	11	2	198	28
West Ham United	1973–74	First Division	24	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	26	4
	1974–75	First Division	40	4	8	0	3	0	3	0	54	4
	1975–76	First Division	39	2	1	0	5	1	12	2	57	5
	1976–77	First Division	12	1	0	0	3	1	0	0	15	2
	Total		115	11	11	0	11	2	15	2	152	15
Norwich City	1976–77	First Division	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
	1977–78	First Division	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	0
	1978–79	First Division	17	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	1
	1979–80	First Division	40	2	3	1	6	2	0	0	49	5
	1980–81	First Division	42	3	2	0	4	0	0	0	48	3
	1981–82	Second Division	8	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	11	0
	Total		128	6	5	1	10	2	3	0	146	9
Tampa Bay Rowdies (loan)	1978	NASL	25	5	–		–		–		25	5
Millwall (loan)	1981–82	Third Division	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	1
Career Total			440	43	23	1	39	11	29	4	531	59

A. ^ The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the Anglo-Italian Cup, FA Charity Shield, Football League Group Cup, Texaco Cup and UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.

As a manager

Team	From	To	Record
Team	From	To	G	W	D	L	Win %
Stoke City^[1]	24 February 1991	18 June 1991	18	6	3	9	33.33

Honours

Norwich City

Football League Second Division champions: 1971–72
Football League Cup runner-up: 1973

West Ham United

References

Specific

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Matthews, Tony (1994). The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City. Lion Press. ISBN 0-9524151-0-0.
↑ NASL stats
↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19780504&id=WQAkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gWcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5697,1408840
↑ "Canaries legend dies". www.eveningnews24.co.uk. 19 November 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-19.

General

Hogg, Tony (2005). Who's Who of West Ham United. Profile Sports Media. p. 92. ISBN 1-903135-50-8.
Canary Citizens by Mike Davage, John Eastwood, Kevin Platt, published by Jarrold Publishing, (2001), ISBN 0-7117-2020-7
West Ham Player List, last accessed 15 January 2007
Graham Paddon, westhamstats.info, last accessed 15 January 2007

External links

Career information at ex-canaries.co.uk

Stoke City F.C. – managers

Slaney (1874–83)
Cox (1883–84)
Lockett (1884–90)
Bradshaw (1890–92)
Reeves (1892–95)
Rowley (1895–97)
Austerberry (1897–1908)
A. Barker (1908–14)
Hodge (1914–15)
Schofield (1915–19)
Shallcross (1919–23)
Rutherford (1923)
Mather (1923–35)
McGrory (1935–52)
Taylor (1952–60)
Waddington (1960–77)
Eastham (1977–78)
A'Court (1978)
Durban (1978–81)
R. Barker (1981–83)
Asprey (1983–85)
Lacey (1985)
Mills (1985–89)
Ball (1989–91)
Paddon (1991)
Macari (1991–93)
Jordan (1993–94)
Hartford (1994)
Macari (1994–97)
Bates (1997–98)
Kamara (1998)
Durban (1998)
Little (1998–99)
Megson (1999)
Thordarson (1999–2002)
Cotterill (2002)
Kevan (2002)
Pulis (2002–05)
Boskamp (2005–06)
Pulis (2006–13)
Hughes (2013–)

Norwich City F.C. – Hall of Fame inductees

2002	Allcock Ashman Brennan Butler Davies Deehan Forbes Gavin Gunn Hannah Keelan Lochhead Macaulay Nethercott Nutchey Peters Ramsay Roberts Robinson Ross Saunders South Stringer Varco Vinall Watling

2003	Adams Bellamy Bennett Bly Bond Bone Bowen Boyer Brown Bruce Bryceland Channon Chase Crook Cross Crossan Crowe Culverhouse Curran Drinkell Eadie Eyre Fashanu Fleck Fleming Foggo Foulkes Fox Furness Gordon Goss Hartford Hill Hollis Ga. Holt Hunt Kennon Kenton Kinsey Lewis Livermore Low MacDougall Mackay Marshall Mendham McCrohan McVeigh Megson Morgan Neighbour Newman Newsome Norman O'Neill Paddon Pickwick Polston Powell Punton Reeves Sheppard Smith Suggett Sutch Sutton Thurlow Townsend Walker Watson Williams Woods Worthington Wynn-Jones

2006	Briggs Burton Butterworth Green Halliday Howes Huckerby Machin Parker Phelan

2012	Ashton Drury Ekoku Foulger Hoolahan Gr. Holt Kirchen Lambert

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