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Tom Redding
Personal information
Full name Thomas Richard Redding
Date of birth (1932-03-17)17 March 1932[1]
Place of birth Grimsby, England
Date of death 23 July 1980(1980-07-23) (aged 48)[1]
Place of death Grimsby,[1] England
Position Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1953–1954 Brigg Town
1954–1957 Grimsby Town 4 (0)
1957–19?? Scarborough
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Thomas Richard Redding (17 March 1932 – 23 July 1980) was an English professional footballer who played as a defender in the Football League for Grimsby Town.[2]

Redding was employed as a warehouse foreman by Humberside Sea and Land Services and died following an industrial accident when supervising the loading of steel girders at the company's site on the Central Electricity Generating Board's land at South Killingholme.[3]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 "Tom Redding". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Archived from the original on 8 June 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
  2. Lamming, Douglas (1985). A who's who of Grimsby Town AFC : 1890-1985. Beverley: Hutton. p. 100. ISBN 0-907033-34-2.
  3. "Man crushed by girders, p1". Grimsby Evening Telegraph. 24 July 1980.