Eddie Quigley
Edward Quigley was an English football player and manager.
He was born in Bury, Lancashire, the son of Edward and Martha Quigley.
He scored 179 goals from 337 appearances in the Football League playing as a centre-forward for Bury, Sheffield Wednesday, Preston North End and Blackburn Rovers in the post World War II era. He was transferred from Sheffield Wednesday to Preston for a fee of £26,500, which was at the time a British transfer record.
He re-signed for Bury in 1956 where he made ten League appearances before retiring from League football at the end of the 1956–57 season.
He joined Mossley as player-manager in the summer of 1957. Over the next six seasons he appeared 197 times for the club scoring 56 goals, before retiring from playing when he left the club in 1962, aged 41.
He then returned to Bury as a youth-team coach.
In April 1967, after a brief spell as caretaker manager at Blackburn, Quigley was confirmed in the position on a permanent basis. In October 1970, he was replaced by Johnny Carey and became chief scout. He and Carey were both sacked on 7 June 1971.
He later managed Stockport County.
He died in Blackpool in 1997 at the age of 75.
