| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Thomas Edward Tynan[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1955-11-17)17 November 1955 (age 69)[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Liverpool,[1] England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1971–1976 | Liverpool | 0 | (0) |
| 1975 | →Swansea City (loan) | 6 | (6) |
| 1976 | Dallas Tornado[2] | 17 | (2) |
| 1976–1978 | Sheffield Wednesday | 91 | (31) |
| 1978 | Lincoln City | 9 | (1) |
| 1978–1983 | Newport County | 183 | (66) |
| 1983–1985 | Plymouth Argyle | 80 | (43) |
| 1985–1986 | Rotherham United | 32 | (13) |
| 1986 | →Plymouth Argyle (loan) | 9 | (10) |
| 1986–1990 | Plymouth Argyle | 173 | (73) |
| 1990–1991 | Torquay United | 35 | (13) |
| 1991–1992 | Doncaster Rovers | 11 | (1) |
| Total | 646 | (259) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1990–1991 | Torquay United (player-coach) | ||
| 1993–1994 | Goole Town | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Thomas Edward Tynan (born 17 November 1955) is an English retired professionalfootballer.
A hard working striker with flowing blonde hair, Tynan was signed as an apprentice forLiverpool by managerBill Shankly after winning a talent contest run by theLiverpool Echo newspaper, but he never made a first-team appearance for the Reds,[3] and was transferred toSheffield Wednesday in 1976, where he spent two years and scored 31 goals.
After just nine appearances forLincoln City in 1978, Tynan moved on toNewport County where he formed a dynamic striking partnership withJohn Aldridge as the Newport team gained promotion to theFootball League Third Division, won the1980 Welsh Cup and in the subsequent season reached the quarter-final of the1981 European Cup Winners Cup. Tynan scored both goals in the away leg againstCarl Zeiss Jena ofEast Germany, the equalising goal being in the 90th minute but Newport lost the home leg 1–0. In total Tynan scored 66 goals in 183 matches during the most successful period in the club's history.[4]
In 1983, Tynan moved on toPlymouth Argyle where he became a cult figure during the 1980s and is frequently named by Argyle fans as one of the club's all-time greatest players. He was a member of the side which reached the semi-finals of theFA Cup in 1984, scoring the goal which beat then top flightWest Bromwich Albion in the fifth round of the competition. Argyle went on to beatDerby County in the quarter-finals before losing toWatford in the penultimate stage of the competition.
In the 1984/85 season, Tynan was joint top scorer in all 4 divisions of theFootball League with 31 goals, level withTranmere'sJohn Clayton. Clayton, ironically, joined Argyle as Tynan's replacement, when Tynan signed forRotherham United in the summer of 1985. However, Tynan rejoined Argyle in early 1986, initially on loan, as the club pushed for promotion to the second tier. His excellent goalscoring record continued at that level and he became a club legend. In total Tynan scored 126 goals in 262 appearances for Plymouth. Former England managerGraham Taylor described him as one of the best natural finishers he had ever seen.[5]
Tynan spent a season as manager ofGoole Town in theNorthern Premier League between 1993 and 1994.[6]
As of January 2017 he was working as a taxi driver inPlymouth.[3] He previously wrote a regular column about Argyle for local newspaper, thePlymouth Evening Herald. Tynan's biography was published in March 2009, entitled "The Original Football Idol: The Tommy Tynan story" by Ryan Danes (Breedon BooksISBN 978-1-85983-685-9). He was also the subject of the 1990 bookTommy: A Life at the Soccer Factory by Richard Cowdrey (Bud BooksISBN 9780951635001)
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