Anthony Hateley (13 June 1941 – 1 February 2014) was an English professional
footballer
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who played as a
centre forward
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. He scored 249 goals from 499 appearances in the
Football League
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, and played
First Division football for
Aston Villa,
Chelsea,
Liverpool
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and
Coventry City. In the lower divisions, he scored 109 goals from 188 league matches in two spells with
Notts County, and also played for
Birmingham City
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and
Oldham Athletic. He was the father of
England international footballer
Mark Hateley
Mark Wayne Hateley (born 7 November 1961) is an English former professional association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), striker. He started his career with Coventry City F.C., Coventry City in the Football L ...
and grandfather of footballer
Tom Hateley.
Early life
Tony Hateley was born in
Derby
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on 13 June 1941. He was educated at Normanton Junior School.
Playing career
Hateley started his career with
Notts County, where he first established himself as a prolific goalscorer, especially through his heading ability, and scored 77 league goals in 131 matches. The club won promotion to the
Third Division in
1960–61.
Hateley's goals earned him a move to County's Midlands rivals
Aston Villa in 1963. Hateley continued his prolific scoring record at Villa, once scoring four second-half goals as Villa came from 5–1 down to draw 5–5 with
Tottenham Hotspur, and his 86 goals in less than 150 games played a significant part in saving the club from
relegation
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to the
Second Division.
In October 1966
Chelsea's offer of £100,000 for Hateley was accepted and he moved to west London. The £100,000 fee Chelsea manager
Tommy Docherty
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paid for Hateley was a
club record and he arrived as a replacement for recent broken leg victim
Peter Osgood. However, Chelsea's game had previously been based around quick passing and movement, while Hateley had thrived on crosses and long balls, meaning the team's style had to be adapted to accommodate him. Though his aerial ability was one of the best in his era, Hateley's technical ability was more lacking – Docherty once commented that Hateley's passes ought to be labelled "to whom it may concern" – and he struggled at the club. He scored six league goals during the season, and the highlight of his time at Chelsea came in the FA Cup semi-final against
Leeds United
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Leeds United have won the League Championship th ...
when he headed in the winning goal at
Villa Park
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. He also played in Chelsea's 2–1 final loss to
Tottenham Hotspur at
Wembley.
Having scored a total of nine goals in 33 appearances, in June 1967 Hateley was sold to
Bill Shankly
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's
Liverpool
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, who broke his own club's record in paying £96,000 for him.
[ He scored 27 goals for Liverpool in the 1967–68 season,][ including ]hat-trick
A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a generally positive feat three times in a match, or another achievement based on the number three.
Origin
The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three Wick ...
s against Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest
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Founde ...
, but once again Hateley's style did not suit his team's and he moved on after a year, this time to Coventry City. After a season at Coventry he was sold to Birmingham City
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and then returned to his first club, Notts County, where he rediscovered his scoring touch and led them to the Fourth Division title in 1970–71. After a brief stint at Oldham Athletic and 3 matches for the Boston Minutemen in the North American Soccer League he retired from the game in 1974, having scored almost 250 career goals. He was never capped for England
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.
After his retirement from the professional game he played in non-League for Bromsgrove Rovers and in season 1975-76 he returned to Merseyside and played for Prescot Town in the Mid-Cheshire League.
At the time of his retirement his combined transfer fees were a record for a single player in English football.
After football
In his later years Hateley had Alzheimer's disease
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. He died aged 72 on 1 February 2014.
Honours
Chelsea
*FA Cup
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runner-up: 1966–67
References
External links
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NASL stats
Thisisanfield.com Forgotten Heroes
LFC history profile
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1941 births
2014 deaths
Aston Villa F.C. players
Birmingham City F.C. players
Chelsea F.C. players
Coventry City F.C. players
English men's footballers
English Football League players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
Liverpool F.C. players
Notts County F.C. players
Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players
Boston Minutemen players
Footballers from Derby
Men's association football forwards
Bromsgrove Rovers F.C. players
Prescot Cables F.C. players
People from Normanton, Derby
English expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
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20th-century English sportsmen