Tony Adcock

Born in Bethnal Green, London, Adcock began his career at Colchester United, where at the age of 18 years, he made his Football League debut on 2 May 1981 in the final game of the season, a 1–0 win over Carlisle United at Layer Road. He opened his goalscoring account in only his third league start with a brace in a 3–0 home victory against Torquay United on 18 September 1981. Adcock became a prolific scorer for Colchester, and established himself in the first-team squad following the death of John Lyons and the departure of Kevin Bremner. In the 1984–85 season, having scored 17 goals and 26 goals in the previous two seasons respectively, Adcock was on course to break the club's seasonal and overall scoring records, having scored 24 league goals in just 27 games up until January 1985. However, after scoring a hat-trick against Chesterfield, he suffered a knee injury in training that kept him out for the remainder of the season. This was particularly unfortunate for Adcock as it had been rumoured that Liverpool were on the verge of making an offer for him. On his return from injury, he remained with the club for two further seasons, scoring 15 and 11 goals as he played his last game for the club on 17 May 1987, a play-off second leg against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux, a game which the U's drew 0–0 but lost 2–0 on aggregate following a first-leg home defeat. Until this point, Adcock had scored 98 league goals in 210 outings. After missing out on promotion with…

Peterborough United

Football League Third Division play-offs: 1992 Colchester United

Football League Trophy runner-up: 1996–97 Individual

PFA Team of the Year: 1984–85 Fourth Division