Greenock Morton

Jim Duffy

Full Name: James Duffy

Age: 49 (27.04.1959)
Position: Central Defender

Born: Glasgow, Scotland

Nationality: Scottish
Height: 5' 10"

Transfer Fee: Celtic - 1 month loan

Date Signed: _.02.1982

Date Left: _.03.1982
Transfer Out: Returned to Celtic
Transfer Fee: Celtic - £25,000
Date Signed: ??.??.1982
Date Left: ??.??.1985

Transfer Out: £60,000 - Dundee
Former Clubs (playing): Maryhill Juniors, Celtic, Morton [loan], Morton, Dundee, Falkirk, Dundee, Partick Thistle, Dundee

Non Playing Career: Falkirk (manager), Dundee (player/assistant manager then player/manager), Hibernian (manager), Chelsea (coach), Portsmouth (coach), Dundee (manager), Hearts (coach then director of football ), Norwich City (assistant manager then caretaker manager)
Current Employment: Brechin City (manager)

Honours with Morton (player): 1st Division winner - 1983/84

Personal Honours: SPFA Players' Player of the Year - 1984/85

Miscellaneous: Jim applied to be Morton manager in February 2008 but the job was given to Davie Irons.

He has a chapter dedicated to him in Graeme Ross' More Morton Greats.

Morton career - starts, sub appearances, goals:

1981/82:
Prem Div: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ? All Together: 20,0,0
1982/83:

Prem Div: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ? All Together: 34,0,0

1983/84:

Div 1: ? Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ? All Together: 49,0,2

1984/85:

Prem Div: 34,0,1 Lge Cup: 1,0,0 Scot C: 2,0,0 All Together: 37,0,1

Totals:

League: 119, 0, 3 Lge Cup: ? Scot C: ?

Overall: 140 Starts, 0 Sub App, 3 Goals

The season totals are taken from Graeme Ross' More Morton Greats. According to Neil Brown's player statistics website Duffy made 119 league aappearances for Morton scoring 3 goals.

SPFA Players' Player Of The Year 1984/85

Links

Wikipedia profile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Duffy_(footballer)

soccerbase profile: http://www.soccerbase.com/managers2.sd?managerid=1529