Tom Walley (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Thomas "Tom" Walley (born 27 February 1945) is a Welsh former footballer, who played as a wing half.Walley was born in Caernarfon and educated at Segontium School. At the age of 14, he underwent a neck operation which prevented him playing football for almost three years. In March 1963, he joined Caernarfon Town playing in the Welsh League (North); after only a handful of games, he briefly joined Wrexham in the spring of 1964, but returned to Caernarfon in August, before (on the recommendation of his elder brother Ernie, who was a former Spurs player) joining English side Arsenal in December 1964 for a fee of 1,000. He played for Arsenal 18 times-4 of those appearances as a substitute-and scored once, as well as playing for the Wales under-23 national team, before transferring to Watford in March 1967 for 9,500.