Gordon Nutt (8 November 1932 – 25 February 2014) was an English professional

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who played as a winger. Nutt played in the

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for

Coventry City Coventry City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Coventry, West Midlands. The club plays in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. The club is nicknamed The Sky Blues after the sky blue colou ...

Cardiff City Cardiff City Football Club () is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It currently competes in , the third tier of the English football league system in the 2025–26 season following relegation. Founded in 1899 a ...

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and

Southend United Southend United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, which competes in the National League, the fifth level of English football. The team are known as "The Shrimpers", a reference ...

, in the Netherlands for

PSV Eindhoven Philips Sport Vereniging (; ), abbreviated as PSV and internationally known as PSV Eindhoven (), is a Dutch sports club from Eindhoven, Netherlands. It is best known for its professional association football, football department, which has pla ...

, and in Australia for

Sydney Croatia Sydney United 58 Football Club is a semi-professional soccer club and current NSW NPL Champions based in Edensor Park, Sydney, New South Wales Australia. The club was formed as Sydney Croatia in 1958, by Croatian Australians in the area, but it ...

and

Manly-Warringah The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Sydney's Northern Beaches. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL). The Manly club debuted in the 1947 New South Wales Rugby Football League seaso ...

Career

Playing career

Born in

South Yardley South Yardley is a largely residential area in east Birmingham, England about from the city centre, and one of the city's 69 electoral wards. Ward Following the 2017 City of Birmingham ward revisions South Yardley covers a much smaller area ...

, Nutt played youth football for Sheldon Town. He then went on to

in 1951, scoring 11 goals in 76 appearances over the next three seasons. In 1954 he signed for

, where he spent one season, making 17 appearances. In 1955 he signed for

. Nutt spent a total of 5 seasons with the club, scoring 10 goals in 51 appearances. After leaving Arsenal, Nutt joined

, and then Dutch club PSV, where he spent one season, scoring 5 goals in 31 appearances. He later played for Australian clubs

and

Manly United FC Manly United Football Club is an Australian soccer club based in the Northern Beaches (Sydney), Northern Beaches area of Sydney. The club competes in the National Premier Leagues NSW and their home ground is Cromer Park, in the suburb of Dee Why ...

all in all.

Coaching career

Nutt was also a coach at Sydney Croatia in 1966 and an assistant coach at Manly-Warringah in 1969.

Later life and death

Nutt died on 25 February 2014, in Tasmania, at the age of 81.

References

1932 births 2014 deaths English men's footballers Coventry City F.C. players Cardiff City F.C. players Arsenal F.C. players Southend United F.C. players PSV Eindhoven players Sydney United 58 FC players Manly United FC players English Football League players Footballers from Birmingham, West Midlands Men's association football wingers English expatriate men's footballers English expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands English expatriate sportspeople in Australia Expatriate men's soccer players in Australia Expatriate soccer managers in Australia Sydney United 58 FC managers 20th-century English sportsmen {{England-footy-midfielder-1930s-stub

Career

Playing career

Coaching career

Later life and death

Further reading

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