Nicky Cross
Nicholas Jeremy Rowland "Nicky" Cross (born 7 February 1961) is a former English footballer who played as a forward. He scored 129 goals in 480 league games in a sixteen-year career in the Football League, playing for five different clubs.
He began his career at top-flight West Bromwich Albion in 1980, and played more than 100 games in a five-year spell, before moving on to Walsall for a £48,000 fee. He also played more than 100 games for Walsall, scoring 45 league goals, before he was sold on to Leicester City for a £80,000 fee in January 1988. He was sold on to Port Vale for a £125,000 fee in June 1989, and would play a total of 176 games for the club in league and cup competitions, winning the Football League Trophy in 1993, and helping the club to promotion out of the Third Division in 1993–94. After this success he spent two years with Hereford United, before heading into non-league football with Solihull Borough in 1996. He later managed Redditch United and Studley KBL, before heading into the financial sector.
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Famous quotes containing the word cross:
“To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
—Douglass Cross (b. 1920)