David Speedie

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Speedie
Occupation	Scottish Footballer
Date Of Birth	Feb 20, 1960(1960-02-20)
Age	64
Birthplace	Glenrothes
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Aquarius

David Speedie Biography

David Speedie is one of the most popular and richest Scottish footballer who was born on February 20, 1960 in Glenrothes, United Kingdom. David Robert Speedie (born 20 February 1960) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played for a variety of clubs in England throughout the 1990s and 1980s particularly Chelsea, Coventry City, Liverpool and Blackburn Rovers. He made over 500 league games and scored more than 150 goals over the course of his 15-year pro-sports career. He also won 10 International caps with Scotland.

In 1986 He became the premier senior footballer since Geoff Hurst in the 1966 World Cup final to score a hat-trick in Wembley at Wembley, as Chelsea beat Manchester City 5-4 in the Full Members Cup final, after Chelsea had lead 5-1. In 1986, Chelsea ended up in sixth place in the league. They had been in the race to win the league title for much of the season, but an unexpected decline in their form put the club out of contention in the last few weeks.

Speedie combined with the aerial strength of Cyrille Regis and the wide options of David Smith, David Phillips, Micky Gynn and Brian Borrows to score some memorable goals. His chipped winning goal at Carrow Road a week after a Cup defeat to non-league Sutton Utd, against a high-flying Norwich City side, was almost universally described in the press as ‘sublime’. This became the Speedie trademark at Coventry and was used to great effect against the likes of Wimbledon and Southampton. He was a key component in the Coventry City side in the 1988/89 campaign, beating the champions-elect Arsenal and riding as high as 3rd in the league as late as February. They would only lose 5 games on their travels that season-winning the same number away from home. Their 7th- place finish was only the third time a top 8 place had been achieved.

The latter half of his spell at Coventry would see him drop back into a deeper midfield role which led to a significant reduction in his goals tally. He enjoyed just under four years at Coventry, none of which were relegation battles, scoring 35 goals (Cup and league). This equalled his Chelsea strike rate and enabled him to maintain a presence in the Scottish international side. His indiscipline and habit of courting controversy was always a major weakness. Speedie left Highfield Road amid the turbulent and transitional autumn/winter period of 1990/91, which would see manager John Sillett replaced by Terry Butcher.

Speedie was a five-year player at Chelsea where he was a prolific strike pair together with Kerry Dixon. Speedie’s scoring power, strength as well as his work-rate, speed of movement and unusual heading skills (he is 5 feet 7 inches tall) perfectly complimented Dixon and the winger Pat Nevin as the trio achieved more than 200 goals over three years. Prior to that, the introduction of Nevin and Dixon however, Speedie had played an crucial role in Chelsea’s success during the Second Division a year earlier with his 7 goals (including two in his debut in the league against Oldham Athletic) that season proved important. Speedie was named the Chelsea Player of the Year in 1985, and was well-known among the Chelsea fans due to his consistent and sassy performance.

David Speedie Net Worth

David Speedie is one of the richest Scottish Footballer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Speedie 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In Glenrothes, Scotland but raised in Yorkshire, Speedie worked as coalminer in the club Brodsworth Welfare, before signing professional agreements in the club of Barnsley at the age of 28 in. With no score for Barnsley in his 21 appearances after which he relocated to Darlington in 1980, which is where his potential first came to light. Two years later, he was noticed by the manager of Chelsea at the time, John Neal, who signed his contract for PS80,000 in the month of May 1982.

Speedie made his debut as a senior player for Scotland on the 25th of May, 1985, in the 1-1 Rous Cup tie win over England. Speedie won the final of his 10 caps in full for Scotland on the 30th of May, 1989, against Chile in the Rous Cup tie, which Scotland beat Chile 2-0. But, Speedie did not score in the Scottish national team.

Having scored 64 goals in 205 appearances for the West London side, Speedie joined Coventry City for £750,000 in July 1987 following a disagreement with Chelsea manager John Hollins. His first appearance was in the 1987 Charity Shield against Everton where he narrowly missed out on scoring on his debut. This statistic would be rectified just a week later however when in an effective replay of the 1987 Cup Final at Highfield Road Speedie scored with a fine low shot past Clemence to set up a 2–1 win over Spurs. Whilst Coventry were hampered in their post Cup final season by a disintegrating pitch, Speedie earned the notable distinction of scoring a hat-trick whilst finishing on the losing side in a 3–4 defeat against Middlesbrough.

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He continued his career at non-league level for a host of clubs including Stamford AFC and Hendon where he made 5 appearances whilst failing to score. Indeed, his most impressive 45 minutes came as a replacement goalkeeper for the second half of Hendon’s first game of the 1996–97 season against Sutton United after first choice Scott Ashcroft got injured just before half time. He also made a handful of Northern League appearances for Crook Town. He retired having scored 150 career goals.

Facts & Trivia

David Ranked on the list of most popular Scottish footballer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. David Speedie celebrates birthday on February 20 of every year.