Footballers who have played league football for both PNE & Coventry
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696) ALLARDYCE Sam
PNE 93 apps; 2 goals
Coventry 28 app 1 goal
PNE Debut 26/08/1986 v Tranmere (A) - Drawn 1-1
590) BLYTH Jim
PNE 1 app; 0 goals
Coventry 151 apps; 0 goals
PNE Debut 01/05/1972 v Swindon (H) - Drawn 2-2
481) BROWN Eddie
PNE 36 apps; 16 goals
Coventry 85 apps; 50 goals
PNE Debut 20/11/1948 v Sunderland (A) - Drawn 0-0
422) CRAWLEY Tommy
PNE 2 apps; 0 goals
Coventry 48 apps; 18 goals
PNE Debut 18/09/1935 v Everton (H) - Drawn 2-2
837) DARBY Julian
PNE 35 apps; 1 goal
Coventry 55 apps; 5 goals
PNE Debut 23/08/1997 v Chesterfield (A) - Lost 2-3
800) EMERSON Dean
PNE 2 apps; 0 goals
Coventry 114 apps; 0 goals
PNE Debut 19/11/1994 v Northampton (H) - Won 2-0
394) FITTON George
PNE signed 62 apps; 18 goals
Coventry 54 apps; 21 goals
PNE Debut 24/12/1932 v Southampton (A) - Lost 0-1
793) FLEMING Terry
PNE 32 apps; 2 goals
Coventry 13 apps; 0 goals
PNE Debut 13/08/1994 v Darlington (A) - Drawn 0-0
872) GALLACHER Kevin
PNE 5 apps; 1 goal
Coventry 100 apps; 28 goals
PNE Debut 18/08/2001 v Walsall (H) - Drawn 1-1
885) GOULD Jonathan
PNE 55 apps; 0 goals
Coventry 25 apps; 0 goals
PNE Debut 18/01/203 v Ipswich (A) - Lost 0-3
Player Profile – Jim Blyth
James Anton Blyth was born in Perth on 2 February 1955, due to the form of goalkeeper Alan Kelly, Blyth only ever made one league appearance for Preston. This was on the final day of the 1971/72 season in a 2-2 draw at home to Swindon on 1 May 1972.
In October 1972 Blyth joined Coventry for a fee of £20,000 but PNE had to wait a further three years for the extra £10,000 on Blyth making a league appearance for the Sky Blues. The delay was due to being the understudy to initially Bill Glazier and later Bryan King and a spell with Hereford on loan in March 1975, making 7 appearances.
His Coventry was in the 2-1 home defeat to Everton on 19 December 1975 and went on to make 19 appearances during the 1975/76 season as Coventry finished in 14th position in Division One.
Blyth became the regular keeper in 1976/77 with 31 league appearances as Coventry avoided relegation by one point and one place. He only missed two league appearances in 1977/78 as they finished a credible 7th. One of the most memororable games of that year came on 27 December 1977 when Norwich visited Highfield Road when Blyth saved Jim Ryan’s penalty kick in the final seconds to help the Sky blues to a 5-4 victory.
He earned two caps for Scotland with his debut against Bulgaria in 1978, and was Scotland's second-choice goalkeeper at the 1978 World Cup.
As he later shared the goalkeeping duties with Les Sealey which limited his first team appearances with 6 in 1978/78 and 21 in 1979/80. A proposed £440,000 transfer to Manchester United in 1979 was cancelled when he failed a medical on a suspect back.
For the next two seasons Blyth made 34 further appearances to take his league total for Coventry to 151.
In August 1982 Blyth joined Birmingham and made 14 appearances in the 1982/83 season. During his spell at Birmingham he fractured his forearm in 3 places during a game against Sunderland, playing for a full 70 minutes injured. The Blues still went on to win the game.
Unable to displace Tony Coton or David Seaman, Blyth joined Nuneaton Borough in 1985.
After retiring from playing Blyth was a coach under Gordon Strachan when he was the manager at Coventry, but departed when Strachan and assistant Garry Pendrey were dismissed from their posts in 2001. During his time at Coventry he was responsible for the signing of 16 year-old Chris Kirkland, who went on to play first team football for the Sky Blues before smashing the British transfer fee for a goalkeeper (£6 million) when bought by Liverpool in August 2001.
Blyth was the goalkeeping coach at Celtic, joining them in July 2005, appointed by Gordon Strachan.
He and Garry Pendrey left Celtic after the resignation of Gordon Strachan in May 2009. He reunited with them at Middlesbrough as goalkeeping coach in May 2010.