Tony Lacey

Tony Lacey
Personal information
Full name Anthony John Lacey
Date of birth (1944-03-18) 18 March 1944
Place of birth Leek, Staffordshire, England
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Leek C.S.O.B.
St. Luke's College
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1967–1969 Stoke City 4 (0)
1970–1975 Port Vale 201 (9)
1975–1977 Rochdale 83 (0)
Stafford Rangers
Total 288 (9)
Managerial career
1985 Stoke City (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Anthony John Lacey (born 18 March 1944) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder for Stoke City, Port Vale, Rochdale, and Stafford Rangers. He made 288 league appearances in a ten-year career in the Football League. He won promotion out of the Fourth Division with Port Vale in 1969–70. He later went into coaching with Stoke City and served as caretaker manager for eight games in 1985. He began coaching at the Wolverhampton Wanderers Academy in 1996.