Terry Darracott

English footballer (1950–2022)

Terry Darracott
Personal information
Date of birth	(1950-12-06)6 December 1950
Place of birth	Edge Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Date of death	22 March 2022(2022-03-22) (aged 71)
Position(s)	Left-back
Youth career
	Everton
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1967–1979	Everton	148	(0)
1979	Tulsa Roughnecks	29	(1)
1979–1980	Wrexham	22	(0)
Total		199	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Terry Darracott (6 October 1950 – 22 March 2022) was an English professional footballer who played as a left back for Everton and Wrexham in the Football League and for the Tulsa Roughnecks in the North American Soccer League.^[1]

On retiring as a player he held coaching positions at Everton, Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers, and was employed as a European scout for Bolton Wanderers.^[2]^[3]

In October 2008, Darracott joined Wrexham as assistant to manager Dean Saunders, with whom he had worked at Blackburn.^[2] Restricted mobility due to a hip problem forced him to leave Wrexham a year later, and he returned to scouting for Bolton.^[4]

He provided opposition analysis as part of Hull City's scouting team.

Darracott died on 22 March 2022, at the age of 71.^[5]^[6]^[7]

References

^ "Terry Darracott". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
^ ^a ^b Currie, Mark (6 October 2008). "Terry Darracott is new Wrexham FC assistant". Daily Post. North Wales. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
^ "On this day - 06th December". Everton F.C. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
^ Bicknell, Gareth (22 October 2009). "Injury ends Terry Darracott's Wrexham FC coaching career". Daily Post. North Wales. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
^ "Former Everton player and coach Terry Darracott dies aged 71". BT Group. 23 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
^ "The obituary notice of Terence Michael DARRACOTT". funeral-notices.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
^ "Terry Darracott obituary". The Times. 16 April 2022. Retrieved 16 April 2022.