Jimmy MURRAY | 1957-1960 | PES Stats Database (Golden Era Backup)

MURRAY PES STATS | 1957-1960

electric_trigger Jimmy MURRAY | 1957-1960 Club: Wolves Number: 9 Position: CF* Nationality: English Era: 1957-1960, aged 22-26 Foot: R Side: B Length: 175 Weight: ? Attack: 86 Defence:42 Balance: 79 Stamina: 85 Top Speed: 85 Acceleration: 88 Response: 85 Agility: 84 Dribble Accuracy: 82 Dribble Speed: 79 Short Pass Accuracy: 77 Short Pass Speed: 75 Long Pass Accuracy: 73 Long Pass Speed: 70 Shot Accuracy: 86 Shot Power: 82 Shot Technique: 82 Free Kick Accuracy: 66 Curling: 66 Header: 85 Jump: 85 Technique: 82 Aggression: 86 Mentality: 81 Keeper Skills: 50 Team Work: 83 Injury Tolerance: B Condition/Fitness: 7 Weak Foot Accuracy: 6 Weak Foot frequency: 6 *Scoring *Positioning *1-1 Scoring *Reaction Jimmy Murray was a centre-forward had a record that would stand up to any examination in any generation; 299 League and Cup matches for Wolves, 166 goals. Not only were those figures compiled entirely in the top flight, they were actually one of the main planks on which Stan Cullis’ Wanderers built their successive title triumphs of 1957-58 and 1958-59. Johnny Hancocks is the only player to have hit more (old) First Division goals for the club (157 against 155), so we’re talking here about a serial scorer. Roy Swinbourne was such a difficult act to follow in the Iron Manager’s attack that you could forgive the younger pretender the insecurity he felt after leaving behind his Kent home and a possible working life down a coal mine. Murray, from the same street in Elvington as Peter Broadbent, found his feet in the 1955-56 campaign with a double-figure goal haul and kicked on a year later with 17 in a side whose sixth-place finish was their lowest for five seasons. In an appetiser for what was to follow, he then hit all five in Wolves’ victory over Southern Transvaal in the first game of the 1957 summer tour of South Africa. Back on home soil, Murray found the net 16 times up to Christmas before hat-tricks against Birmingham and Nottingham Forest (he hit another against Darlington in the FA Cup) meant he ended 1957-58 with a haul of 32 as well as a title winner’s medal. Two under-23 caps are all he had to show by way of an international career that many thought should have included senior recognition, the likes of Derek Kevan (later a Manchester City team-mate), Brian Clough, Bobby Charlton and Nat Lofthouse being preferred. Murray expended any frustration on First Division defences. He rattled in 21 more goals in Wolves’ successful 1958-59 Championship defence, including one in each of their last seven games. It was the second of three successive seasons in which he finished as the club’s leading League scorer – a feat he would repeat in 1961-62 – and he netted 32 times in a 1959-60 campaign in which he played in a winning FA Cup final side at Wembley and in which Wolves were pipped by Burnley to the title and so denied the first double of the 20th century. Murray, who later served Walsall and Telford as well as City, was more Ian Rush than Steve Bull or Michael Owen; a brilliant finisher, a great scorer of goals rather than a scorer of great goals, and decent in the air considering his relatively lean 5ft 10in frame. “He probably didn’t realise what a good centre-forward he was; quick over the first ten yards, two good feet and a good head. He wasn’t physical but his running off the ball was so good that he often left defenders ball- watching.” Jimmy MURRAY | 1957-1960 | PES Stats Database (Golden Era Backup)