years death_date clubs caps birth_place goals nationalteam position nationalcaps manageryears nationalyears birth_date managerclubs article_title name nationalgoals
1946 1961 -- 1971 1962 1962 -- 1948 1948 -- 1949 1949 -- 1961 22 july 2004 -lrb- aged 75 -rrb- coleraine loan -rrb- → hamilton steelers -lrb- loan -rrb- f.c. glentoran celtic coleraine f.c. → morton -lrb- 5 8 318 ? 0 ? coleraine , northern ireland 1 1 33 ? 0 ? northern ireland united kingdom defender 32 1 1961 -- 1974 1961 -- 1964 1949 -- 1961 1955 29 september 1928 coleraine f.c. northern ireland bertie peacock
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bertie peacock

john robert `` bertie '' peacock mbe -lrb- 29 september 1928 -- 22 july 2004 -rrb- was a northern ireland international footballer and manager who played for celtic .
after starting his career with local side coleraine f.c. , peacock moved on to belfast club glentoran in 1947 .
after two years he was signed by glasgow club , celtic , where he would go on to become captain and a club legend .
during his time at the club he won one league title , two scottish cups and two scottish league cups .
peacock won 31 caps for northern ireland .
he featured alongside harry gregg , danny blanchflower and billy bingham in the team that reached the quarter-finals of the 1958 world cup , the country 's joint best result to date - they reached the equivalent of the quarter finals in 1982 .
he became northern ireland manager a year after his retirement as a footballer in 1961 , giving george best his first start .
in the 1960s peacock returned to coleraine , winning the irish league title in 1974 .
peacock briefly came out of retirement when he came on as a substitute against shamrock rovers in the texaco cup in september 1971 .
it was peacock 's last ever game for coleraine as they lost 3-0 at the the showgrounds -lrb- coleraine -rrb- .
he was also assistant manager to billy bingham during northern ireland 's 1982 world cup campaign , where they famously knocked out hosts spain in valencia .
alongside jim weir and victor leonard , peacock was one of the founders of the milk cup .
held in his native coleraine , the youth football competition started with sixteen teams in 1982 and rose to become one of the most respected tournaments in the world .
in 1986 he was awarded the mbe for his services to football .
he died in 2004 , aged 76 .
in june 2006 a statue of peacock was commissioned .
the memorial stands in coleraine and was unveiled in july 2007 , at the opening of the 25th milk cup .
also in 2006 , a youth football club was formed in honour of bertie , bertie peacocks youths .
this club has a range of teams from under 7 to under 16 .
in only 2 years , the teams have been very successful - the under 11 's in particular , winning the down and connor league , the down and connor knock-out cup and becoming northern ireland boys champions all in the 2008 season .
this club has had much encouragement from the wide supporters of bertie peacock .
