McNestry: George

1928-1929 (Player Details)

Outside Right

Born: Chopwell, Co. Durham: 07-01-1908

Debut: v Blackburn Rovers (a): 08-12-1928

5’9” 12st (1928)

A product of Durham amateur football, McNestry played for seven League clubs in ten years. After being rejected by Arsenal after trials, he joined Third Division North Bradford Park Avenue in 1926, scoring once in fourteen League appearances. He went to another Third Division North team, Doncaster Rovers, in the summer of 1927 but only played eight League games, scoring once. First Division Leeds signed him in November of 1928, but he struggled to find a place in the team and he joined First Division Sunderland in November 1929. Again he found First Division football hard to break into and only made four League appearances at Roker Park and at both of the First Division teams he was just a fringe player and at Leeds he was a deputy for Bobby Turnbull. He played for Luton Town from August 1930, in the Third Division South, and was a regular in his two seasons there, making sixty-nine League appearances and scoring twenty-six times, as he found goals easier to come by. He also scored twice in seven Cup game. He stayed in the Third Division South with Bristol Rovers from May 1932 and scored forty-two goals in one hundred and twelve League appearances in his three seasons at Eastville, and another five goals in eleven Cup games. He stayed in the Third Division South and moved to Coventry City from June 1935. At Coventry he maintained his prolific goalscoring with twenty-one goals in forty six League games. He also made two Cup appearances without scoring. He won a Third Division South medal there in 1935-36, before being forced to quit because of a knee injury, after only seven games in the Second Division. At Coventry he was a consistent goalscorer and was granted a £500 benefit. He died in Gateshead in March 1998.