Danny Hegan is pictured playing for Wolves during their match against
Derby County.
That year he played in both legs of the first ever UEFA Cup Final.
It was between Wolves and Tottenham - who won 3-2 on aggregate.
Both teams beat five opponents to reach the 1972 final, with Wolves
beating Juventus in the quarter-finals.
Danny Hegan died on 6th August 2015 in a Birmingham hospice aged 72.
He had been suffering from cancer
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Sunderland: |
1962-1963 |
Played |
0 |
Scored |
0 |
goals |
(Division 2) |
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Transferred in July 1963 |
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Ipswich Town: |
1963-1964 |
Played |
21 |
Scored |
5 |
goals |
(Division 1) |
|
1964-1965 |
Played |
31 |
Scored |
7 |
goals |
(Division 2) |
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1965-1966 |
Played |
39 |
Scored |
8 |
goals |
(Division 2) |
|
1966-1967 |
Played |
37 |
Scored |
5 |
goals |
(Division 2) |
|
1967-1968 |
Played |
41 |
Scored |
6 |
goals |
(Division 2: Champions)
|
|
1968-1969 |
Played |
38 |
Scored |
3 |
goals |
(Division 1) |
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Transferred in May 1969 |
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West Bromwich Albion: |
1969-1970 |
Played |
14 |
Scored |
2 |
goals |
(Division 1) |
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Transferred in May 1970 |
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Wolves: |
1970-1971 |
Played |
7 |
Scored |
0 |
goals |
(Division 1) |
|
1971-1972 |
Played |
23 |
Scored |
3 |
goals |
(Division 1) |
|
1972-1973 |
Played |
17 |
Scored |
3 |
goals |
(Division 1) |
|
1973-1974 |
Played |
6 |
Scored |
0 |
goals |
(Division 1) |
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Transferred to Sunderland in November 1973
for whom he played just six games.
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Between 1969 and 1973 he played 7 games for N. Ireland |
Post footballing career.
Hegan spent eleven seasons coaching football at Butlin's. When the coaching stopped,
he went to Plymouth to work for a plumber then moved to Corby and worked as an
industrial cleaner for a friend who had his own business.
Danny also worked back-stage in the Night Out in Birmingham and spent three years doing
odd jobs at cricket Test matches at Edgbaston and at the women's tennis tournament.
After retiring from work he lived in Birmingham