Vic Halom

Vic Halom

Personal information
Full name	Vic Halom
Date of birth	(1948-10-03) 3 October 1948
Place of birth	Burton upon Trent, England
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1965–1967	Charlton Athletic	12	(0)
1967–1968	Leyton Orient	53	(12)
1968–1971	Fulham	72	(22)
1971–1973	Luton Town	59	(17)
1973–1976	Sunderland	113	(35)
1976–1980	Oldham Athletic	123	(43)
1980–1981	Rotherham United	20	(2)
	Total	452	(131 )
Managerial career
	Barrow
1984–1986	Rochdale
1988	Burton Albion
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Victor Lewis Halom (born 3 October 1948 in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England) is a former footballer

Biography

Playing career

Halom featured as a player most prominently for Sunderland and Oldham Athletic. He played as centre forward in the Sunderland team that won the FA Cup in 1973. Having only joined the club 3 months earlier, he scored important goals in the fifth round replay against Manchester City and the semi-final against Arsenal.

Coaching career

Halom moved into management in the early 1980s managing Bergsøy in Norway. He later achieved great success with Barrow taking them back into the Vauxhall Conference in 1983–84. This led to him being appointed Rochdale manager at the end of the season. Halom began with a mass clear out, many of the incomers being ex-Oldham players. The side struggled to gel at first but things markedly improved when the under-performing record signing Les Lawrence was sold and replaced by proven goalscorer Steve Taylor late in 1984. For the next calendar year Rochdale showed promotion-winning form and earned a third round FA Cup tie with Manchester United.

Immediately after that the team went into steep decline not helped by the disastrous signing of David Mossman who moved on at a loss after less than ten games At the end of the season despite Rochdale having escaped re-election by one point Halom was retained but told by chairman Tommy Cannon to try to sell those players under expensive contracts. This seriously weakened the side and after Taylor was sold in October 1986 the club had sunk to bottom of the League by December. Halom was sacked and after being disillusioned with the politics in football never managed a League club again.

In 1992 he stood as a Liberal Democrat candidate for Sunderland in the 1992 General Election but finished third.

External links

• Profile at Post War English & Scottish Football League A – Z Player's Database