James Guy Barrett (5 November 1930 – 21 October 2014) was an English

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played for West Ham United. His father, James William Barrett, also played for the club from 1924 to 1939. Born in

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, Jim Jnr played football as a junior for West Ham, and played with his father as a teenager for West Ham A in 1945–46. He signed for the senior side in February 1949 and went on to make 85 league and 2 cup appearances for the east London club, scoring 25 goals. He was sold to

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in December 1954, and went on to become their top scorer for the 1956–57 season. He also played for

Birmingham City Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. Since 2011, the first te ...

, playing 10 games and scoring four goals before his playing career ended aged 29. He later returned to West Ham to become

player-manager A player-coach (also playing coach, captain-coach, or player-manager) is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. A player-coach may be a head coach or an assistant coach. They may make changes to the sq ...

of the A team assisting the development of players such as

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and

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. He moved to Millwall in 1968, where he worked under ex-Hammer

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. Barrett died in 2014, aged 83.

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