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{{short description|English footballer}}
'''Ray Crawford''' (b. [[13 July]], [[1936]] in [[Portsmouth]]) is a former English international [[football (soccer)|footballer]].
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{{Infobox football biography
| name= Ray Crawford
| image =Ray_Crawford_and_Ted_Phillips.jpg
| upright = 0.9
| caption =Crawford (left) and former team-mate [[Ted Phillips (footballer)|Ted Phillips]] at [[Portman Road]]
| full_name = Raymond Crawford
| height =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1936|7|13|df=y}}<ref>[https://www.eurosport.com/football/ray-crawford_prs536560/person.shtml Ray Crawford | Eurosport]</ref>
| birth_place = [[Portsmouth]], England
| position = [[Striker (association football)|Striker]]
| youthyears1 = 1954–1957
| youthclubs1 = [[Portsmouth F.C.|Portsmouth]]
| years1 = 1957–1958
| years2 = 1958–1963
| years3 = 1963–1965
| years4 = 1965–1966
| years5 = 1966–1969
| years6 = 1969
| years7 = 1969–1970
| years8 = 1970–1971
| years9 = 1971
| clubs1 = [[Portsmouth F.C.|Portsmouth]]
| clubs2 = [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]]
| clubs3 = [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolverhampton Wanderers]]
| clubs4 = [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]]
| clubs5 = [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]]
| clubs6 = [[Charlton Athletic F.C.|Charlton Athletic]]
| clubs7 = [[Kettering Town F.C.|Kettering Town]]
| clubs8 = [[Colchester United F.C.|Colchester United]]
| clubs9 = [[Durban City F.C.|Durban City]]
| caps1 = 19
| caps2 = 197
| caps3 = 57
| caps4 = 14
| caps5 = 123
| caps6 = 21
| caps7 =
| caps8 = 45
| caps9 = 6
| goals1 = 9
| goals2 = 143
| goals3 = 39
| goals4 = 6
| goals5 = 61
| goals6 = 7
| goals7 =
| goals8 = 24
| goals9 = 1
| totalcaps = 482 |totalgoals = 290
| nationalyears1 = 1956
| nationalteam1 = [[Malaya national football team|Malaya]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/double-caps.html|title=Players Appearing for Two or More Countries|publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation |accessdate=25 January 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127000522/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/double-caps.html|archivedate=27 November 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>
| nationalcaps1 = 1
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| nationalyears2 = 1961–1962
| nationalteam2 = [[England national football team|England]]
| nationalcaps2 = 2
| nationalgoals2 = 1
| manageryears1=
| managerclubs1= [[Fareham Town F.C.|Fareham Town]]
}}
'''Raymond Crawford''' (born 13 July 1936) is an English former international [[association football|footballer]], who played as a [[striker (association football)|striker]] in a career that saw him score over 300 goals at club level.
 
==Club career==
Starting out at Portsmouth, Ray Crawford joined [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]] in 1958. A prolific striker, he helped Ipswich to win back-to-back titles, the Second Division in the [[1959]]/[[1960]] season and the First Division in the [[1960]]/[[1961]] season.
Crawford began his career as a trainee at his home town club [[Portsmouth F.C.|Portsmouth]]. He made his league debut on 24 August 1957 in a goalless draw with [[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]]. He managed 19 appearances for the club at senior level before joining second flight [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]] in August 1958.
A prolific striker, he helped Ipswich to win back-to-back titles, the [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]] in [[1960–61 in English football|1960–61]] and the [[Football League First Division|First Division]] in [[1961–62 in English football|1961–62]]. In the latter season, he was joint leading scorer in [[Football League First Division|Division One]] – alongside [[Derek Kevan]] of [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]] – with 33 goals.<ref>{{cite web | title=English League Leading Goalscorers 1889–2007 | url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engtops.html | date=14 June 2007 | publisher=[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]] | access-date=14 October 2007}}</ref> During this time, he won the first of his two [[England national football team|England]] caps, becoming the first Ipswich Town player to be capped for England.
 
He was sold to [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolves]] in September 1963 where he scored 3941 goals in 5761 appearances (in total), before moving to rivals [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Brom]] forin aJanuary season1965, shortly before Wolves dropped out of the top flight. He Rejoiningfailed to establish himself though at [[The Hawthorns]] and rejoined [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich]] in March 1965, where he played another three full seasons, beforelifting joininghis [[Charltontally Athleticfor F.C.|Charlton]]the club to 259 goals in 1968all competitions.
 
He joined [[Charlton Athletic F.C.|Charlton]] in March 1969, but soon dropped into the non-league with [[Kettering Town F.C.|Kettering Town]]. He signed for [[Colchester United F.C.|Colchester United]] in June 1970 for £3,000 and in his only season with the club, scored 24 goals from 45 appearances. Most notably, he scored two goals for Colchester United in a giant-killing 3–2 victory against [[Leeds United F.C.|Leeds United]] in the fifth round of the [[FA Cup]] in 1971.
He stayed for a single season before moving to non-league Kettering Town on a free transfer.
 
Crawford left English football after this season, heading to [[Durban City]] in South Africa, leaving an exceptional scoring rate in the [[Football League]] of 289 goals in 476 games. In his only season in South Africa, he won the cup and finished runner-up in the league.
Crawford signed for [[Colchester United F.C.|Colchester United]] from non-league Kettering TOwn in 1970 for £3,000 and in his only season scored 24 goals from 45 appearances. Most notably, he scored two goals for Colchester United in a giant-killing 3-2 victory against [[Leeds United F.C.|Leeds United]] in the fifth round of the [[F.A. Cup]] in 1971.
 
He became youth-team coach at [[Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.|Brighton]] in 1972 but left after [[Brian Clough]] became manager the following year. He then worked as youth team Manager and assistant Manager to Jimmy Dickinson at his former side [[Portsmouth F.C.|Portsmouth]] until 1979 and later managed non-league [[Fareham Town F.C.|Fareham Town]] and Winchester City for a short while before retiring from the game in 1984, and becoming a merchandising representative. He is now retired but still plays a big active role within the community of Portsmouth, appearing at a lot of charity events and is a popular figure at Fratton Park every home game.
His scoring rate was exceptional, scoring 290 career goals in 476 appearances, with over 200 of them for Ipswich.
 
In 2007, he published his autobiography entitled "Curse of the Jungle Boy".<ref name="Matthews2012">{{cite book|author=Mark Metcalf & Tony Matthews|title=The Golden Boot: Football's Top Scorers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J1-oAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT81|date=30 August 2012|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-1118-1|page=81}}</ref>
His international career was suprisingly brief - only two caps against [[Northern Ireland national football team|Northern Ireland]] in 1961 and [[Austria national football team|Austria]] in 1962, with his solitary international goal scored in the latter match.
The book explain how Crawford was known to all as 'Jungle Boy' because of his army service in [[Federation of Malaya|Malaya]]. He had his own Jungle Boy chant used a lot by the fans.
 
Crawford now works as a summariser on Express FM commentaries on [[Portsmouth F.C.|Portsmouth]] matches and occasionally on Radio Suffolk on [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]] games. He is known for his loud cheers and shouts and became an instant hit on Express FM. The former frontman also provides a weekly column for the Yellow Advertiser online newspaper discussing the fortunes of Colchester United FC.
 
==International career==
Crawford's international career was surprisingly brief, but had three caps with two different countries. He made his international debut with [[Malaya national football team|Malaya national team]] in 1956.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamPlyrsBios/PlayersC/BioCrawfordR.html|title=Ray Crawford Profile|publisher=England Football Online|accessdate=25 January 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117013440/http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamPlyrsBios/PlayersC/BioCrawfordR.html|archivedate=17 January 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/double-caps.html|title=Players Appearing for Two or More Countries|publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation |accessdate=25 January 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127000522/http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/double-caps.html|archivedate=27 November 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> He played at left-wing for Malaya in their 4–2 win over [[Singapore national football team|Singapore]] on 1 April 1956 in the annual Sportsman's Trophy match.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.englandfootballonline.com/teamplyrs/PlyrsOtherNatTeams.html|title=England Players Appearing for Other National Sides in Official Matches|publisher=England Football Online|accessdate=31 March 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324062232/http://www.englandfootballonline.com/teamplyrs/PlyrsOtherNatTeams.html|archivedate=24 March 2022|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was also named among the 17 players which travelled to represent Malaya in the [[1956 AFC Asian Cup qualification|Asian Cup qualifiers]] away in [[Cambodia]] and [[South Vietnam]] in April–May 1956, and not in the starting XI in either of the two qualifiers (Govindarajoo was the starting left-wing).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tables/1956_asia_squads.pdf|title=Asian Cup 1956 - Squads|accessdate=23 June 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623110946/http://www.rsssf.com/tables/1956_asia_squads.pdf|archivedate=23 June 2017|publisher=[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tables/56asch.html|title=Asian Nations Cup 1956|accessdate=27 June 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627083522/http://www.rsssf.com/tables/56asch.html|archivedate=27 June 2017|publisher=[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]|url-status=dead}}</ref> After that, he played for [[England national football team|England national team]] against [[Northern Ireland national football team|Northern Ireland]] on 22 November 1961 and played in their next fixture, versus [[Austria national football team|Austria]] on 4 April 1962, where he opened the scoring in a 3–1 win.<ref>{{Englandstats|ref=y|access-date=16 January 2019}}</ref>
 
He also played for the [[the Football League XI|Football League]] representative team.
 
==Honours==
'''Ipswich Town'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.Coludaybyday.co.uk/Statistics/Player%20Stats/PlayerHonours/PlayerPremierLeague.html |title=Tier One (Premier League) Honours |work=Coludaybyday.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.Coludaybyday.co.uk/Statistics/Player%20Stats/PlayerHonours/PlayerTheChampionship.html |title=Tier Two (Championship) Honours |work=Coludaybyday.co.uk}}</ref>
*[[Football League First Division|First Division/Premier League]]:<ref group="nb">From 1888 to 1992 the Football League First Division was the top tier of English football. It was superseded by the [[Premier League]] in 1992.</ref> [[1961–62 Football League First Division|1961–62]]
*[[Football League Second Division|Second Division/Championship]]:<ref group="nb">2004 as [[Football League Championship]]</ref> [[1960–61 Football League#Second Division|1960–61]], [[1967–68 Football League#Second Division|1967–68]]
 
'''Individual'''
*Football League Second Division top scorer: [[1960–61 Football League#Second Division|1960–61]]<ref name ="topscorers">{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engtops.html | title = English League Leading Goalscorers |publisher=[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]] | access-date = 31 October 2010 }}</ref>
*[[List of English football first tier top scorers|Football League First Division top scorer]]: [[1961–62 Football League First Division|1961–62]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engtops-allt.html|title=England - All-Time Topscorers|publisher=[[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]}}</ref>
*[[Ipswich Town F.C. Hall of Fame|Ipswich Town Hall of Fame]]: Inducted 2007<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/sport/wark_honoured_to_be_on_hall_of_fame_1_119904 |first=Elvin |last=King |work=Ipswich Star |title=Wark 'honoured' to be on Hall of Fame |date=10 August 2007 |access-date=8 August 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826024829/http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/sport/wark_honoured_to_be_on_hall_of_fame_1_119904 |archive-date=26 August 2016 }}</ref>
*[[Colchester United F.C. Player of the Year|Colchester United Player of the Year]]: [[1970–71 Colchester United F.C. season|1970–71]]<ref>{{Cite web| url = http://www.coludata.co.uk/appearances.asp?sid=31&cid=All&tid=All&act=all| archive-url = https://archive.today/20130420013223/http://www.coludata.co.uk/appearances.asp?sid=31&cid=All&tid=All&act=all| url-status = dead| archive-date = 20 April 2013| title = Colchester United&nbsp;— Appearances - 1970–71| access-date = 1 March 2013| publisher = Coludata.co.uk
}}</ref>
 
*[[Colchester United F.C.|Colchester United]] Hall of Fame<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.coludata.co.uk/content.php?pg=sipg&pd=1131 |title=Colchester United Hall of Fame |work=Coludata.co.uk |access-date=12 March 2019 }}</ref>
 
'''Records'''
*[[List of Ipswich Town F.C. records and statistics#Top goalscorers|Ipswich Town F.C. all-time top scorer]]: 218 goals.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.itfc.co.uk/news/2015/october/an-evening-with-ray-crawford-/|title=AN EVENING WITH RAY CRAWFORD|publisher=Ipswich Town FC. Co.UK|accessdate=26 January 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811163431/https://www.itfc.co.uk/news/2015/october/an-evening-with-ray-crawford-/|archivedate=11 August 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*The first footballer to score [[Hat-trick#Association football|hat-tricks]] in the [[Football League First Division|Football League]], [[Football League Cup|League Cup]], [[FA Cup]] and [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]].<ref>{{Cite book | title = The Who's Who of Ipswich Town | first = Dean | last = Hayes | publisher = Breedon Books | year = 2006 | pages = 45 | isbn = 1-85983-515-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.itfc.co.uk/news/2015/october/an-evening-with-ray-crawford-/|title=AN EVENING WITH RAY CRAWFORD|publisher=Ipswich Town FC. Co.UK|accessdate=26 January 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811163431/https://www.itfc.co.uk/news/2015/october/an-evening-with-ray-crawford-/|archivedate=11 August 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
*[http://football.guardian.co.uk/FA_Cup/Story/0,5764,628020,00.html Heroes who shaped the history of the Cup -&nbsp;– Guardian report]
 
*[http://www.nobok.co.uk/Football/Legends/Other/Ray%20Crawford.aspx Football legends]
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