David McCreery Profile

David McCreery

Da­vid Mc­Creery, born Bel­fast, North­ern Ire­land, Septem­ber 16, 1957. Bro­ught up in the very heart of Prot­est­ant East Bel­fast, Da­vid Mc­Creery was steeped from an early age in a mar­in­ade of polit­ics and re­li­gion. A de­term­ined and ver­sat­ile play­er who offered con­sid­er­able skill and hard work too, he was fir­st spot­ted by Bob Bish­op and went on to make 110 out­ings in all com­pet­i­tions for The Reds.

Da­vid Mc­Creery was han­ded his fir­st Foot­ball Lea­gue ap­pear­ance for Man­chester Uni­ted in a 0-0 Sec­ond Di­vi­sion draw to Ports­mouth at Frat­ton Park on the 15th of Oct­ober 1974, and in­stantly be­came a huge hit wi­th the sup­port­ers of the club be­cause of his un­com­prom­ising at­ti­tude and fight­ing spir­it. The North­ern Ir­ish­man ap­peared in 87 Foot­ball Lea­gue mat­ches for Uni­ted be­fore he was bro­ught to new­ly re­leg­ated Queens Park Ran­gers by for­mer man­ager Tom­my Doc­herty for a fee of £200,000 at the start of the 1979-80 cam­paign. Two years la­ter, how­ever, he would join for­ces wi­th Tulsa Rough­necks of the North Amer­ic­an Soc­cer Lea­gue where he spent two en­joy­able sum­mer sea­sons. On his re­turn to Eng­land the fol­low­ing year, the ball win­ning mid­field man sig­ned for New­castle Uni­ted, ma­king 272 Foot­ball Lea­gue ap­pear­ances for The Mag­pies dur­ing his sev­en-year stay. Mc­Creery then had re­l­at­ively short spells wi­th GIF Sunds­vall, Heart of Mid­lothi­an, Hartle­pool, and Col­eraine re­spect­ively be­fore he was ap­poin­ted play­er-man­ager at Fourth Di­vi­sion si­de Carl­isle Uni­ted where he would re­place for­mer New­castle Uni­ted de­fender Aidan Mc­Caf­frey. Af­ter two years of ser­vice at Brunton Park, he took over as play­er-man­ager at for­mer club Hartle­pool on­ly to be giv­en the sack in the sum­mer of 1995. He la­ter had brief stints as coach wi­th fir­st Burmese te­am Mag­we, and then Malay­si­an si­de Sa­bah. At in­terntion­al level, the pop­u­lar per­former pulled on the green shirt of North­ern Ire­land on 67 oc­ca­sions and rep­res­en­ted his na­tion in bo­th the 1982 Wor­ld Cup Fi­nals in Spain, and the 1986 Wor­ld Cup Fi­nals in Mex­ico. Da­vid Mc­Creery Play­ing Ca­reer: Man­chester Uni­ted, Queens Park Ran­gers, Tulsa Rough­necks, New­castle Uni­ted, Tulsa Rough­necks, GIF Sunds­vall, Heart of Mid­lothi­an, Hartle­pool Uni­ted, Col­eraine, Carl­isle Uni­ted, Hartle­pool Uni­ted. Play­ing Hon­ours: Eng­lish FA Cup 1977, Eng­lish FA Char­ity Shield 1977.

 

David McCreery Quickfacts

Af­ter his pro­fes­sion­al foot­ball ca­reer ended in 1995, the in­dus­tri­ous Da­vid Mc­Creery be­came a busi­ness­man, man­aging a weld­ing equip­ment com­pany based in Con­sett in Coun­ty Durham.

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Man­chester Uni­ted Appearances

Ports­mouth 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Black­pool 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 3
Birm­ing­ham City 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Ips­wich To­wn 0
Der­by Coun­ty 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester City 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Lei­cester City 0
West Ham Uni­ted 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Liver­pool 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester City 4 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 As­ton Vil­la 0
Ar­senal 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 New­castle Uni­ted 0
Shef­field Uni­ted 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 4
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Burn­ley 1
Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Birm­ing­ham City 1
Cov­entry City 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Lei­cester City 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Liver­pool 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Der­by Coun­ty 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 4 West Ham Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Leeds Uni­ted 2
Nor­wich City 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
New­castle Uni­ted 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 4
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Middles­brough 0
Der­by Coun­ty 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Ips­wich To­wn 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Ever­ton 1
Burn­ley 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Sto­ke City 1
Lei­cester City 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 South­ampton 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Man­chester City 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 5 Tran­mere Rov­ers 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur 3
Ajax 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Sun­der­land 2
Man­chester City 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 3
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Ajax 0
Leeds Uni­ted 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Sun­der­land 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Sun­der­land 0
West Brom­wich Al­bion 4 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Ju­ventus 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Ips­wich To­wn 1
Ju­ventus 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Ever­ton 3
Ar­senal 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 4 Ever­ton 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 As­ton Vil­la 0
Ips­wich To­wn 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Cov­entry City 0
South­ampton 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Man­chester City 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Leeds Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 As­ton Vil­la 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 West Brom­wich Al­bion 2
Nor­wich City 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Ever­ton 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Sto­ke City 0
Sun­der­land 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Lei­cester City 1
Queens Park Ran­gers 4 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Queens Park Ran­gers 0
Liver­pool 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Bris­tol City 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Sto­ke City 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 3
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Ar­senal 2
West Ham Uni­ted 4 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Liver­pool 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Liver­pool 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Birm­ing­ham City 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 4
Man­chester Uni­ted 2 Cov­entry City 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Ips­wich To­wn 0
Ar­senal 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 2
Der­by Coun­ty 0 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester City 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Saint Etienne 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Chel­sea 1
Middles­brough 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
FC Porto 4 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
West Brom­wich Al­bion 4 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
As­ton Vil­la 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 5 FC Porto 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Ar­senal 2
Not­ting­ham For­est 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Nor­wich City 0
Carl­isle Uni­ted 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 As­ton Vil­la 1
Ar­senal 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Queens Park Ran­gers 1
Nor­wich City 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 3
Wolver­hampton Wan­derers 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Birm­ing­ham City 0
Leeds Uni­ted 2 Man­chester Uni­ted 3
Ips­wich To­wn 3 Man­chester Uni­ted 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Ever­ton 1
Queens Park Ran­gers 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Not­ting­ham For­est 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Wat­ford 2
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 Middles­brough 2
Birm­ing­ham City 5 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 3 West Brom­wich Al­bion 5
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Cov­entry City 0
Not­ting­ham For­est 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur 1 Man­chester Uni­ted 1
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Nor­wich City 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 0 Der­by Coun­ty 0
Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Chel­sea 1

Total Ap­pear­ances: 110

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