Tommy Bisset

Thomas Alexander Bisset (21 March 1932 – 30 April 2011) was an English professional footballer who made 115 Football League appearances playing as a forward or right back for Brighton & Hove Albion.[1]

Tommy Bisset
Personal information
Full name Thomas Alexander Bisset[1]
Date of birth (1932-03-21)21 March 1932[2]
Place of birth Croydon, England
Date of death 30 April 2011(2011-04-30) (aged 79)
Place of death Dumfries, Scotland
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[2]
Position(s) Right back, forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
19??–1952 Redhill
1952–1961 Brighton & Hove Albion 115 (5)
1961–196? Guildford City
Yiewsley
Haywards Heath
Southwick
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Life and career

Bisset was born in Croydon, Surrey.[1] After completing his National Service obligations – while serving with the Royal Signals in Eritrea, he played football for the Eritrean League against the Sudan national team – he joined Redhill of the Athenian League before signing for Brighton & Hove Albion in late 1952. He played little for his first two-and-a-half seasons, then  – converted from forward to right back – missed only three matches in the 1955–56 campaign, before returning to the reserves for another two years. Having made little contribution to the team's promotion from the Third Division South, he made more than 50 appearances in Brighton's first two seasons in the Second Division, before returning to the reserves again before his release in 1961. He then moved into non-league football with Guildford City and Yiewsley of the Southern League and then Sussex County League clubs Haywards Heath Town (as player-coach) and Southwick.[2]

Bisset died in Dumfries, Scotland on 30 April 2011, at the age of 79.[1][3]

References
  1. "Tommy Bisset". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  2. Carder, Tim; Harris, Roger (1997). Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Hove: Goldstone Books. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-9521337-1-1.
  3. "Thomas Alexander Bisset". Scotland and Northern Ireland, Death Index, 1989–2021. Retrieved 25 May 2023.


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