Terence Armstrong (born 10 July 1958) is an English former

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who played as a

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for Huddersfield Town and

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in a nine-year career in the

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. He helped Port Vale to win promotion out of the

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in 1982–83. He later played

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for

Nuneaton Borough Nuneaton Borough Football Club is an English football club that is based in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The men's 1st team competes in the , the seventh tier of English football. In 1889, Nuneaton St. Nicholas FC was the first team in Nuneaton t ...

and

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Career

Armstrong played for Huddersfield Town, and made four

appearances in the 1976–77 season. He made 19 appearances in the 1977–78 season, and scored once in a 4–1 win over Doncaster Rovers at

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on 1 October.

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Tom Johnston was then replaced by

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. However, Armstrong continued to make progress in the first-team, starting 15 league games in 1978–79 and scoring once in a 2–1 home win over

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on 13 March. However, he did not feature at all in the title-winning 1979–80 campaign, and was also absent throughout the 1980–81 season, before signing with Fourth Division

in February 1981. Armstrong made 17 appearances for the "Valiants" at the end of the 1980–81 campaign, and claimed goals against

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and Peterborough United. He featured 42 times in the 1981–82 season, scoring goals against

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and Lincoln City. He scored seven goals in 45 games in the 1982–83 promotion campaign, including a brace in a 4–1 win over

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at Vale Park. However, he and numerous other players fell out with manager John McGrath over player wages, and as a result Armstrong, Barry Siddall,

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, and Geoff Hunter all remained on weekly contracts. Armstrong hit two goals in 21 matches in the 1983–84 season as Vale were relegated out of the

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, despite an upturn in form under new boss John Rudge. Armstrong began to be plagued by a nagging

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injury, which required a

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operation. His injury kept him limited to just six appearances in the 1984–85 campaign, and he left the club on a free transfer to non-League

in May 1985, later moving on to Alliance Premier League rivals

Post-retirement

In April 2003, he lost his job as a

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warder at

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after he was jailed for 28 days for sending sexually explicit material to the husband of his former lover. This act was in breach of a

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. He also

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ed a motorway bridge as an insult to the husband of his former lover.

Career statistics

Source:

Honours

Port Vale *

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third-place promotion: 1982–83

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Armstrong, Terry 1958 births Living people English men's footballers Footballers from Barnsley Men's association football midfielders Huddersfield Town A.F.C. players Port Vale F.C. players Nuneaton Town F.C. players Northwich Victoria F.C. players English Football League players National League (English football) players British prison officers