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Craig Bailey

William Craig Bailey, sometimes erroneously written Baillie, is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a forward in the English Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion, in the Scottish League for Motherwell and Brechin City, in the Irish League for Distillery and in the English Southern League for Cambridge United.

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Personal information
Full name William Craig Bailey1
Date of birth (1944-07-06) 6 July 19441
Place of birth Airdrie,1 Scotland
Position Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
19??–1961 Kirkintilloch Rob Roy
1961–1963 Brighton & Hove Albion 4 (1)
1963–1964 Cambridge United
1964–1965 Motherwell 6 (3)
1965 Distillery
1965–1966 Brechin City 2 (0)
1966–19?? Distillery
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

William Craig Bailey (born 6 July 1944), sometimes erroneously written Baillie,2 is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a forward in the English Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion,1 in the Scottish League for Motherwell and Brechin City,3 in the Irish League for Distillery and in the English Southern League for Cambridge United.45

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  1. "Craig Bailey". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Archived from the original on 8 June 2024. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
  2. For surname spelling: "Statutory registers – Births – Search results: Surname: 'Baillie', Surname Option: 'Syn', Forename: 'William Craig', Forename Option: 'Exact'". ScotlandsPeople. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  3. Litster, John (2018). A Record of Post-War Scottish League Players 1946/47 to 2017/18. Norwich: PM Publications.
  4. Carder, Tim; Harris, Roger (1997). Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Hove: Goldstone Books. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-9521337-1-1.
  5. "Player search". English National Football Archive. Retrieved 8 March 2019.