fullname years death_date clubs caps goals position manageryears managerclubs article_title name
john wright 1945 -- 1946 1948 -- 1959 2005 mossley blackpool 1 157 0 1 defender 1969 -- 1972 tranmere rovers jackie wright -lrb- footballer -rrb-
 jackie wright
jackie wright -lrb- footballer -rrb-

john `` jackie '' wright -lrb- died 2005 -rrb- was an english professional footballer who played as a defender -- specifically , a full back .
he spent eleven years with blackpool in the 1940s and 1950s , making 157 league appearances and scoring one goal .
he made his debut for blackpool , who were then managed by joe smith , on 6 september 1948 , in a 1 -- 1 draw with derby county at bloomfield road .
he went on to make a further five appearances during the 1948 -- 49 league campaign , deputising for ron suart .
wright made fourteen league appearances in 1949 -- 50 , during which season suart left for blackburn rovers .
in 1950 -- 51 , wright made twelve league appearances , but sat out blackpool 's entire run to their second fa cup final .
the following season , 1951 -- 52 , he made fifteen appearances , before missing the whole 1952 -- 53 term .
in 1953 -- 54 , wright returned to the line-up ; however , he was still unable to nudge out tommy garrett from the left-back berth , and therefore made only eight league appearances .
once again , he did not appear in the club 's run to another , this time successful , fa cup final .
wright was absent again for the entirety of the 1954 -- 55 campaign , but it was in 1955 -- 56 , his eighth season with `` the tangerines '' , that he was given an extended run in the team .
he made thirty-eight starts in the club 's 42 league games as they finished as runners-up in division one .
he scored his first and only goal for the club in 1956 -- 57 , in a 4 -- 0 victory over luton town at bloomfield road on 8 september , during one of his sixteen league appearances .
wright had another sustained run in the blackpool team during 1957 -- 58 , making 31 appearances .
1958 -- 59 was wright 's eleventh and final season on the fylde .
ron suart , with whom he had competed for the number-3 shirt earlier in his `` seasiders '' career , succeeded joe smith as manager .
suart gave seventeen starts to wright , the final one occurring on 3 january in a 3 -- 1 defeat at manchester united at old trafford .
