Patrick John Bradley was a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 professional association football player of the 1920s. Born in Coatbridge

Coatbridge

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, his earliest known club was Wolverhampton Wanderers

Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.

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. He made only five appearances for the club in the Football League Second Division

Football League Second Division

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 before moving to Gillingham

Gillingham F.C.

Gillingham Football Club is an English professional football club based in the town of Gillingham, Kent. The only Kent-based club in the Football League, they play their home matches at the Priestfield Stadium...

 of the Third Division South

Football League Third Division South

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 in November 1926. He was a regular in the Gills' first team for the remainder of the 1926–27 season, playing 24 games and scoring three goals, including two in a 4–4 draw with Swindon Town

Swindon Town F.C.

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. The following season, however, he lost his place to new signing Enos Bromage

Enos Bromage

Enos Bromage was an English professional association football player of the 1920s. Born in Mickleover, he joined Gillingham from Derby County in 1927 and went on to make 21 appearances for the club in The Football League, scoring six goals. He left to join West Bromwich Albion in 1928.-References:...

 and, despite, returning for a run of nine consecutive first team games in October and November, he never made another Football League appearance for Gillingham and moved on to non-league

Non-league football

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 club Walsall Wood

Walsall Wood F.C.

Walsall Wood F.C. are a football club based in Walsall Wood, near Aldridge in the West Midlands, England. For the 2011-12 season, they are members of the Midland Combination Premier Division, which sits at level 10 of the English football league system....

. He later played for another minor club in the same area, Brownhills Albion.