Jim Fryatt

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Jim Fryatt
Personal information
Full name James E. Fryatt
Date of birth (1940-09-02) 2 September 1940 (age 84)
Place of birth Southampton, England
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Charlton Athletic F.C.
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1957–1960 Charlton Athletic F.C. 5 (3)
1960–1963 Southend United F.C. 61 (24)
1963–1966 Bradford Park Avenue 101 (38)
1966–1967 Southport F.C. 39 (15)
1967 Torquay United F.C. 27 (11)
1967–1968 Stockport County F.C. 44 (28)
1968–1970 Blackburn Rovers F.C. 37 (5)
1970–1971 Oldham Athletic A.F.C. 76 (40)
1971–1974 Southport F.C. 108 (24)
1973 Philadelphia Atoms (loan) 18 (7)
1974 Philadelphia Atoms 20 (8)
1974 Stockport County F.C. 1 (1)
1974–1975 Torquay United F.C. 4 (0)
1975 Hartford Bicentennials 6 (1)
1975 Philadelphia Atoms[1] 5 (0)
Managerial career
1977 Las Vegas Quicksilvers
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jim Fryatt (born 2 September 1940 in Southampton) is a retired English footballer who played as a striker. During his playing career he was nicknamed 'Pancho'.[2]

Football League

A regular scorer for all of his club sides, the stockily built forward was the archetypal journeyman, spending most of his career switching between lower league sides. However whilst appearing for Bradford Park Avenue against Tranmere Rovers on 25 April 1964 Fryatt established a Football League record by scoring after only 4 seconds, the fastest goal in the competition's history.[3] Fryatt is also well regarded for his time at Stockport County, where his strike partnership with Bill Atkins was so formidable that the two have been inducted into the club's Hall of Fame as a unit.[4]

NASL

Like many of his contemporaries Fryatt appeared in the North American Soccer League during the summer months, first appearing in the 1973 season with the title winning Philadelphia Atoms, for whom he scored in the play-offs against Toronto Metros.[5] He returned to the club the following year before finishing his career in the 1975 season initially with Hartford Bicentennials and then back in Philadelphia.

Post-retirement

After retiring as a player, Fryatt served briefly as the assistant manager of the original Las Vegas Quicksilvers before settling permanently in Las Vegas where he worked at casinos before becoming a mechanic for a golf course.[6]

References

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  1. Barry Hugman, Football League Players Records, 1981, p. 147
  2. Pancho back on familiar territory
  3. Barry Hugman, Football League Players Records, 1981, p. 18
  4. Jim Fryatt & Bill Atkins
  5. Colin Jose, NASL: A Complete Record of the North American Soccer League, 1989, p. 102
  6. Where Are They Now? (A-J)