fullname years clubs caps goals birth_place height totalcaps position birth_date totalgoals article_title name
michael conroy 1984 1991 -- 1993 1993 -- 1995 1995 -- 1998 1998 -- -- 1999 1998 -- 1999 1999 1999 -- 2000 2000 1987 -- 2001 1987 -- 1988 1988 -- 1991 clydebank blackpool → chester city -lrb- loan -rrb- → chester city st. -lrb- loan -rrb- carlton eastern pride mirren reading burnley preston north end fulham 0 5 28 6 114 10 80 77 57 94 14 10 0 0 0 1 38 1 7 30 22 32 0 3 glasgow , scotland 6 0 495 striker -lrb- retired -rrb- 31 december 1965 134 mike conroy -lrb- footballer , born 1965 -rrb-
 mike conroy
mike conroy -lrb- footballer , born 1965 -rrb-

michael kevin conroy -lrb- born 31 december 1965 in glasgow -rrb- is a scottish former professional footballer .
he played as a striker .
conroy began his career with coventry city in 1983 .
unable to break into the first team , he moved back to his native scotland in 1984 to sign with clydebank on a free transfer .
in three years with the bankies , he made 114 league appearances and scored 38 goals .
in 1987 he joined st. mirren for ten months , scoring one goal in ten appearances for the buddies .
he returned south of the border in 1988 to join reading in a # 50,000 deal .
he spent three years at elm park , before moving to burnley in 1991 , where the most prolific scoring period of his career would begin .
in his two years with burnley , conroy scored 30 goals in 77 league appearances .
conroy joined burnley 's lancashire rivals preston north end in 1993 for # 85,000 .
he went on to score 22 goals in 57 appearances for north end and briefly played alongside a young david beckham .
in 1995 he joined fulham , and scored 32 goals in almost 100 appearances for the craven cottage club .
after three years in london , conroy moved back to lancashire to join blackpool for a # 50,000 fee .
he made fourteen appearances for the seasiders but failed to find the net in the league -lrb- though he did score once against scunthorpe united in the league cup -rrb- .
in december 1998 he was loaned out to chester city , for whom he scored three goals in ten appearances .
he returned to the blues , again on loan , a month after his first period expired .
after leaving blackpool in 1999 , conroy moved to australia to play for carlton .
in 2000 he joined eastern pride , with whom he finished his playing career when they went out of business the following year .
conroy was senior coach at doncaster rovers soccer club in the victorian state league division 2 .
he began his coaching career as reserve-team coach at doncaster rovers .
