Tommy Reynolds was an English footballer

Football (soccer)

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 who played for Sunderland

Sunderland A.F.C.

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 as a winger. He died in 1998.

Club career

He joined Sunderland from youth club Felling Juniors, and made his debut against Charlton Athletic

Charlton Athletic F.C.

Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, in the London Borough of Greenwich. They compete in Football League One, the third tier of English football. The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the southeast London area,...

 on 11 September 1946 in a 5–0 defeat at The Valley. Raised in the North East, he raced his own greyhounds at the local dog track. He left Sunderland for King's Lynn

King's Lynn F.C.

King's Lynn F.C. was an English football club based in King's Lynn, Norfolk. Established in 1879, they were wound up at the High Court on 25 November 2009 with debts of £77,000 and went out of business in December after a failed appeal...

, after spending from 1946 until 1953 at the club, scoring 18 goals with 167 league appearances.

He then made 43 appearances for Darlington.

He also managed a number of pubs, notably the North Moor in Sunderland, now demolished, and The Bush in the Hendon area of the town.