Irving Nattrass
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1952-12-20) 20 December 1952 (age 71) | ||
Place of birth | Fishburn, England | ||
Position(s) | right back[1] | ||
Youth career | |||
Newcastle United | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1970–1979 | Newcastle United | 238 | (16) |
1979–1986 | Middlesbrough | 191 | (2) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Irving Nattrass (born 20 December 1952) is an English former footballer who played primarily as a right back for Newcastle and Middlesbrough.[1]
Born in Fishburn, England, Nattrass attended Ferryhill Grammar School and signed with Newcastle at age 16 on an apprenticeship.
As a youth player Nattrass lacked confidence and made slow progress within the club, even going so far as to look for employment elsewhere as a mechanic. However, he soon found his stride and went on to sign professionally for the club in July 1970, aged 17. A year later Nattrass went on to make his debut against Derby.
The then Newcastle manager Joe Harvey once commented "Nattrass is my Paul Madeley and I can't pay him a bigger compliment than that". Madeley was a Leeds and England player who was dubbed the "Rolls-Royce" of footballers.
Hampered by injuries and disagreements with the Newcastle board he eventually moved to Middlesbrough for the sum of £375,000. Nattrass made his league debut for them against Arsenal on 15 September 1979.
Honours
Individual
- Newcastle United Player of the Year: 1977–78[2]
References
- ^ a b "Born on this day: One of Newcastle United's best-ever right-backs". Chronicle. Newcastle: chroniclelive.co.uk. 12 December 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ Rory Mitchinson (16 May 2022). "Joelinton scoops Newcastle United Player of the Year award". Newcastle United F.C. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
External links
- Sporting Heroes Irving Nattrass record and photo
- Evening Chronicle Interview with Irving Nattrass
- Toonarama Irving Nattrass Biography
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- 1976: Gowling
- 1977: Burns
- 1978: Nattrass
- 1979: Withe
- 1980: Shoulder
- 1981: Carr
- 1982: Martin
- 1983: Keegan
- 1984: Keegan
- 1985: Beardsley
- 1986: Beardsley
- 1987: Goddard
- 1988: Gascoigne
- 1989: Hendrie
- 1990: Quinn
- 1991: Burridge
- 1992: G. Peacock
- 1993: L. Clark
- 1994: Cole
- 1995: Venison
- 1996: D. Peacock
- 1997: Watson
- 1998: Batty
- 1999: Shearer
- 2000: Shearer
- 2001: Given
- 2002: Solano
- 2003: Shearer
- 2004: Bernard
- 2005: Given
- 2006: Given
- 2007: Butt
- 2008: Beye
- 2009: Bassong
- 2010: José Enrique
- 2011: Coloccini
- 2012: Krul
- 2013: Santon
- 2014: Williamson
- 2015: Janmaat
- 2016: Elliot
- 2017: C. Clark
- 2018: Lascelles
- 2019: Rondón
- 2020: Dúbravka
- 2021: Wilson
- 2022: Joelinton
- 2023: Trippier