Percy Freeman
Ronald Peter 'Percy' Freeman (4 July 1945 – 5 January 2016) was an English footballer who played as a forward.
Early career
[edit]Freeman commenced his career with local non-league clubs around Redditch where he was brought up, playing for junior sides Headless Cross Youth, Alcester Boys Club and Clent Rovers as a teenager and then senior sides Alcester Town, Alvechurch, Astwood Bank, and Stourbridge coupled with Sunday league teams AFC, Black Horse and the Redditch Wednesday shopkeepers team.[1] He joined West Bromwich Albion in 1969. After only making three appearances with The Hawthorns club, Freeman signed for Lincoln City where he was best known with 152 league appearances and 64 goals. Freeman also played for Reading and Boston United,[2] and later managed Boston Town.[3]
Freeman died on 5 January 2016 at the age of 70 after a long period of ill-health.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Football ace Percy passes away". Redditch Standard. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
- ^ Percy Freeman at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
- ^ Boston Town Non-League Club Directory
- ^ Tributes for Lincoln City 'legend' Percy Freeman
- 1945 births
- 2016 deaths
- English men's footballers
- Alcester Town F.C. players
- Alvechurch F.C. players
- Stourbridge F.C. players
- West Bromwich Albion F.C. players
- Lincoln City F.C. players
- Reading F.C. players
- Boston United F.C. players
- English football managers
- Boston Town F.C. managers
- Sportspeople from Newark-on-Trent
- Footballers from Nottinghamshire
- Men's association football forwards
- English Football League players
- 20th-century English sportsmen