Updated version of the original stats made by Levin
Name: Hugh Thomas Kelly
Country:
ScotlandClub: Blackpool FC
Position: *DMF, CB
Side: LF/BS
Age: 25-30 years (23/07/1923)
Height: 177 cm
Weight: 72 kg
Attack: 69
Defence: 83
Balance: 86
Stamina: 84
Top Speed: 81
Acceleration: 78
Response: 83
Agility: 77
Dribble Accuracy: 77
Dribble Speed: 75
Short Pass Accuracy: 84
Short Pass Speed: 79
Long Pass Accuracy: 82
Long Pass Speed: 76
Shot Accuracy: 67
Shot Power: 80
Shot Technique: 66
Free Kick Accuracy: 65
Curling: 67
Header: 80
Jump: 83
Technique: 78
Aggression: 67
Mentality: 87
Goalkeeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 83
Injury Tolerance: A
Condition/Fitness: 7
Weak Foot Accuracy: 6
Weak Foot Frequency: 5
Consistency: 7
Growth Type: Standard/Lasting
CARDS:
P14: Enforcer
S08: Slide Tackle
S09: Covering
SPECIAL ABILITIES: Sliding ~ Covering
Attack/Defence Awareness Card: Defence Minded
INFO:
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Hugh Kelly was skipper of the finest Blackpool side in the club's 113-year Football League history, an exhilarating team which finished as runners-up to the champions, Manchester United, in 1955-56 and contained as its jewel the wondrous Stanley Matthews, at that time the most famous player in the world. Not that fame was any sort of spur for the engagingly modest Kelly, an unflinchingly steely defensive wing-half who, if he was performing today, would be termed a "holding midfielder".
For all his sustained and integral contribution to the Seasiders' cause – between his debut in 1946 and his exit from Bloomfield Road a decade and a half later he made 470 senior appearances – the Scottish international one-club man was essentially unobtrusive. His way was to win the vast majority of his tackles through a combination of excellent timing and iron resolve, then to distribute the ball unfussily, and usually with the utmost accuracy, to more extravagantly gifted colleagues.
For all his sustained and integral contribution to the Seasiders' cause – between his debut in 1946 and his exit from Bloomfield Road a decade and a half later he made 470 senior appearances – the Scottish international one-club man was essentially unobtrusive. His way was to win the vast majority of his tackles through a combination of excellent timing and iron resolve, then to distribute the ball unfussily, and usually with the utmost accuracy, to more extravagantly gifted colleagues.