Tommy Wright (footballer, born 1928)

Thomas Wright (20 January 1928 – 5 May 2011^[2]) was a Scottish footballer who played for Sunderland and the Scotland national football team as a midfielder.

Tommy Wright

Personal information
Full name	Thomas Wright[1]
Date of birth	20 January 1928
Place of birth	Clackmannan, Scotland
Date of death	5 May 2011(2011-05-05) (aged 83)
Place of death	Sunderland, England
Position(s)	Right winger
Youth career
	Blairhall Colliery
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1946–1949	Partick Thistle	35	(20)
1949–1955	Sunderland	170	(52)
1955–1957	East Fife	36	(18)
1957	Oldham Athletic	7	(2)
	North Shields
Total		248	(92)
International career
1952–1953	Scotland	3	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

He started his professional footballing career with Partick Thistle, where he made 35 appearances scoring 20 goals ranging from 1946 until 1949.^[3] From Partick Thistle, he joined Sunderland in 1949,^[3] and made his debut on 12 March 1949 against Portsmouth in a 4–1 defeat at Roker Park.^[4] He was part of the Sunderland team that finished third in the 1949–50 season and played regularly.^[5] Overall, in his Sunderland career he scored 51 goals in 170 league appearances,^[6] before moving to East Fife in 1955,^[3] in a deal seeing Charlie Fleming going the other way.^[5] He made 36 appearances scoring 18 goals during 1955 to 1957 at his time at East Fife.^[3] He then moved to Oldham Athletic in 1957 where he made 7 appearances and scored 2 goals in a single season.^[3] He then moved on a short spell to North Shields before retiring in 1957.^[7]

International career

Wright won his first international cap for Scotland against Wales in a 2–1 on 18 October 1952 at Ninian Park.^[8] He won two further caps for his country, making it three in total, without scoring a goal.^[9] A regular at the "Whitegates Comrie" until he was taken to a retirement home in Sunderland.