Dennis Guy
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 16 September 1944 | ||
| Place of birth | Portadown, Northern Ireland | ||
| Date of death | 9 September 2022 (aged 77) | ||
| Place of death | Portadown, Northern Ireland | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1960 | Portadown Tech | ||
| 1960–1963 | Linfield Swifts | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1961–1963 | Linfield | 20 | (11) |
| 1963–1975 | Glenavon | 373 | (295) |
| 1972–1974 | Ards | ||
| 1976 | Glentoran | ||
| International career | |||
| 1965–1969 | Northern Ireland B | 8 | (5) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Dennis Guy (16 September 1944 – 9 September 2022) was a Northern Irish footballer who played as a forward. Throughout his 15-year career, he scored 504 goals in 631 games.[1]
Club career
Linfield
Guy started off his senior football at Linfield Swifts and with 97 goals from 104 games his first team debut was nearing. On 11 November 1961, at 17 years of age, Guy made his senior Linfield debut in a 4–0 City Cup win over Crusaders. This was Linfield's famous "Seven Trophy Season". Guy would not be awarded another first team appearance in that season, still making appearances for the Swifts. He scored his first senior goal in a 3–0 win over Glentoran in September 1962, and claimed a hattrick in the Irish Cup semi-final win over Crusaders.
Guy left Linfield with a first-team tally of 11 goals in 20 games.[2]
Glenavon
Guy joined Glenavon in 1964 from Linfield, after coach Jimmy McAlinden made a deal which saw Glenavon Reserves goalkeeper Sammy Cowan go the other way.
He then went on to become the club's second-highest goalscorer behind Jimmy Jones with 295 goals in 373 appearances and was the club's leading goalscorer in eight successive seasons, between 1964–65 and 1971–72. Guy is the only Glenavon player ever to score six goals in a league game, which he achieved against Glentoran at Mourneview Park on Christmas Eve, 1966.[3][4]
International career
Guy never officially made an appearance for Northern Ireland's national first team, but on eight occasions represented the Northern Ireland B team, over the course of four years and scored five goals.
Honours
Glenavon
Ards
Individual
- Northern Irish First Division top scorer: 1963–64 (19 goals)
References
- ^ "Prolific Scorers Data - Denis Guy - Additional Data". www.rsssf.org.
- ^ "Dennis Guy tributes to a career covering George Best and Irish League glory days". NorthernIrelandWorld. 9 September 2022.
- ^ Team, Glenavon Media. "Club pays tribute to Dennis Guy".
- ^ Name, Name Last (9 September 2022). "Glenavon pay tribute to Denis Guy". www.yourlurgan.com.