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{{short description|English footballer (born 1950)}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2013}}
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{{Distinguish|David Cross (footballer, born 1982)}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = David Cross
| image =
| caption =
| fullname =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|12|8|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Heywood, Greater Manchester|Heywood]], England
| height =
| position = [[Forward (association football)|Striker]]
| youthyears1 =
| youthclubs1 = [[Rochdale A.F.C.|Rochdale]]
| years1 = 1969–1971 | clubs1 = [[Rochdale A.F.C.|Rochdale]] | caps1 = 59 | goals1 = 21
| years2 = 1971–1973 | clubs2 = [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]] | caps2 = 84 | goals2 = 21
| years3 = 1973–1976 | clubs3 = [[Coventry City F.C.|Coventry City]] | caps3 = 91 | goals3 = 29
| years4 = 1976–1977 | clubs4 = [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]] | caps4 = 38 | goals4 = 18
| years5 = 1977–1982 | clubs5 = [[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United]] | caps5 = 179 | goals5 = 78
| years6 = 1982–1983 | clubs6 = [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] | caps6 = 31 | goals6 = 12
| years7 = 1983 | clubs7 = [[Vancouver Whitecaps (1974–84)|Vancouver Whitecaps]] | caps7 = 26 | goals7 = 19
| years8 = 1983–1984 | clubs8 = [[Oldham Athletic A.F.C.|Oldham Athletic]] | caps8 = 22 | goals8 = 6
| years9 = 1984 | clubs9 = [[Vancouver Whitecaps (1974–84)|Vancouver Whitecaps]] | caps9 = 20 | goals9 = 10
| years10 = 1984–1985 | clubs10 = [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]] | caps10 = 16 | goals10 = 2
| years11 = 1985–1986 | clubs11 = [[Bolton Wanderers F.C.|Bolton Wanderers]] | caps11 = 20 | goals11 = 8
| years12 = 1985–1986 | clubs12 = → [[Bury F.C.|Bury]] (loan) | caps12 = 13 | goals12 = 0
| years13 = 1986–1987 | clubs13 = [[Aris Limassol]] | caps13 = | goals13 =
| years14 = | clubs14 = [[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]] | caps14 = | goals14 =
| totalcaps = 599
| totalgoals = 224
}}
'''David Cross''' (born 8 December 1950) is an English former [[association football|footballer]] who played as a [[Forward (association football)|striker]]. He scored 223 goals in 599 appearances in [[the Football League]] and the [[North American Soccer League (1968–1984)|North American Soccer League]].<ref name=NeilBrown>{{cite web |url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player1/davidcross.html |title=David Cross |work=UK A–Z Transfers |publisher=Neil Brown |access-date=17 September 2009}}</ref> Cross was born in [[Heywood, Greater Manchester|Heywood]], Lancashire.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.westhamstats.info/westham.php?west=2&ham=161&united=David_Cross |title=David Cross |publisher=West Ham United Statistics |access-date=17 September 2009}}</ref>
==Football career==
Cross played for [[Football League Third Division|Third Division]] club [[Rochdale A.F.C.|Rochdale]], where he scored against top-flight [[Coventry City F.C.|Coventry City]] in a third-round [[FA Cup]] game in 1971.<ref name=CET2003>{{Cite web | title = The Day Cross Was Too Much to Bear for City | first = Andy | last = Turner | work = Coventry Evening Telegraph | date = 23 January 2003 | access-date = 5 March 2018 | url = https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-96745791.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180306142327/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-96745791.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 6 March 2018 }}</ref> He moved to [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]], with whom he won the Second Division championship in 1972.<ref>{{cite book|last=Denton|first=Graham|title=Odd Man Out: The Fascinating Story of Ron Saunders' Reign at Aston Villa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3nWXDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT23|date=10 April 2017|publisher=Pitch Publishing|isbn=978-1-78531-333-2|page=23}}</ref> He joined [[Coventry City F.C.|Coventry City]] for £150,000, then a club record.<ref>{{cite news| title=Sky Blues: Where Are They Now? Game On| last= Brown | first = Jim | newspaper=Coventry Evening Telegraph| date=28 August 2004| url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-121367557.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180306142317/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-121367557.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=6 March 2018| access-date=5 March 2018}}</ref> In [[1975–76 in English football|1975–76]], Cross scored [[Hat-trick#Association football|hat-tricks]] on the opening and closing days the season,<ref>{{Cite web | title = Down the Sky Blue Decades: The 70s | last = Turner | first = Andy | work = Coventry Telegraph | date = 22 August 2008 | access-date = 5 March 2018 | url = https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/down-sky-blue-decades-70s-3093952}}</ref> the only Coventry City player to do so in a league campaign.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} He joined [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]] for £150,000 in November 1976,<ref name=Matthews2013>{{cite book|last=Matthews|first=Tony|title=Manchester City Player by Player|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gjaIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT78|year=2013|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-1737-4|page=78}}</ref> and made his Albion debut against [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]].<ref>{{Cite web | title = David CROSS - League appearances for WBA | work = Sporting Heroes | access-date = 5 March 2018 | url = http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football/west-bromwich-albion-fc/david-cross-5943/league-appearances-for-wba_a13818/}}</ref>
[[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United]] also broke their club record for Cross when they paid for £180,000 for his services on 9 December 1977.<ref>{{Cite web | title = SportsFile: Caught in Time: League Cup final, 1981 | last = Struthers | first = Greg | work = The Sunday Times | date = 4 January 2004 | access-date = 5 March 2018 | url = https://www.thetimes.com/article/sportsfile-caught-in-time-league-cup-final-1981-p8s6k65hff6| url-access=limited}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.westhamstats.info/westham.php?west=2&ham=161&united=David_Cross| title=David Cross| website=westhamstats.info| access-date=5 March 2018}}</ref> He made his debut a week later, against West Brom. Cross scored 9 goals in 21 league games during his initial season at the club, but this wasn't enough to prevent [[Promotion and relegation|relegation]] to the [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]]. His first full season brought 18 goals, with 12 the following season.<ref name=Hogg2005>{{cite book |last=Hogg |first=Tony |title=Who's Who of West Ham United |year=2005 |publisher=Profile Sports Media| isbn= 1-903135-50-8 |page=56}}</ref>
Cross was asked to play as the lone striker during the [[1980 FA Cup Final]] win against [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]].<ref name=CET2003/><ref name=Hogg2005/> He scored 22 goals with the side that won the Second Division in [[1980–81 in English football|1980–81]], winning the division's Golden Boot and ensuring the club's promotion back to the [[Football League First Division|First Division]].<ref name=Hogg2005/><ref>{{cite tweet |user=thecentretunnel |number=842834948285501441 |date=17 March 2017 |title=1980/81 Adidas Golden Boot winners}}</ref>
On 1 October 1980, Cross scored West Ham United's first, and to date only, hat-trick in European competition in a 5–1 win against [[Real Madrid Castilla|Castilla]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Castilla Ghost Match|url=http://theyflysohigh.co.uk/castilla-ghost-match/4577286094|last=Hillier|first=Roger|publisher=theyflysohigh|access-date=16 February 2017}}</ref>
Following promotion, Cross again became the club's top scorer for the [[1981–82 in English football|1981–82]] season, with 16 goals. He scored four goals in a game on two occasions, against [[Grimsby Town F.C.|Grimsby Town]] on 11 April 1981, and against [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]] on 2 September 1981.<ref name=Hogg2005/> Cross was the last player to score four goals in a single league match for West Ham for almost 40 years until [[Michail Antonio]] also achieved this in a match against Norwich City on 11 July 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53283313|title=Norwich City 0-4 West Ham United: Michail Antonio scores four to send Canaries down|date=11 July 2020|publisher=BBC}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.givemesport.com/1581890-norwich-city-relegated-from-premier-league-as-west-hams-michail-antonio-scores-four-goals|title=Norwich City relegated from Premier League as West Ham's Michail Antonio scores FOUR goals|first=Oliver|last=Browning|date=11 July 2020|work=GiveMeSport}}</ref>
Cross played his last game for the east London club on 15 May 1982, scoring against [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolverhampton Wanderers]] at [[Molineux Stadium|Molineux]]. He went on to play for Manchester City and [[Oldham Athletic A.F.C.|Oldham Athletic]], and spent the summers of 1983 and 1984 with [[Vancouver Whitecaps (NASL)|Vancouver Whitecaps]] (where he totalled 46 appearances and 29 goals),<ref name=NeilBrown/><ref name=mls2017>{{cite web|url=https://www.whitecapsfc.com/post/2017/06/08/former-whitecaps-striker-david-cross-returns-bc-place-first-time-33-years| title=Former Whitecaps striker David Cross returns to BC Place for first time in 33 years| publisher=MLS |date=8 June 2017| first=Rafael| last=Figueroa| access-date=13 October 2017}}</ref> before rejoining West Brom for the [[1984–85 in English football|1984–85]] season. He signed for [[Bolton Wanderers F.C.|Bolton Wanderers]] in [[1985–86 in English football|1985–86]], but a fractured skull helped to end his professional career in England and he ended the season with a loan spell at [[Bury F.C.|Bury]].<ref name=Hogg2005/> He then had a brief spell with [[Aris Limassol]] of Cyprus,<ref>{{Cite web | title = In Conversation with David Cross Part 2 | first = Gursimran | last = Hans | work = The National Student | date = 4 March 2018 | access-date = 5 March 2018 | url = http://www.thenationalstudent.com/Sport/2018-03-04/in_conversation_with_david_cross_part_2.html}}</ref> and finished his career at [[Blackpool F.C.|Blackpool]].<ref name=Matthews2013/><ref>{{Cite web | title = David Cross and Marcus Hall here for the Bluebirds | publisher = Coventry City Former Players Association | date = 17 November 2011 | access-date = 6 March 2018 | url = http://www.ccfpa.co.uk/?p=4346}}</ref>
After retirement, Cross spent nine years in the insurance industry,<ref name=Hogg2005/> and [[Scout (association football)|scouted]] for [[Watford F.C.|Watford]].<ref>{{Cite web | title = Cross so keen for happy return | work = Manchester Evening News | date = 10 August 2004 | access-date = 6 March 2018 | url = https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/cross-so-keen-for-happy-return-1144128}}</ref> He joined the coaching staff at Oldham Athletic in 1997.<ref name=Hogg2005/> He coached the reserves and youth-team before moving up to assistant manager to [[Iain Dowie]] in 2002. In February 2003, he was released from his contract with the club in serious financial difficulties.<ref>{{Cite web | title = Cross laid off by Oldham | work = BBC Sport | date = 19 February 2003 | access-date = 5 March 2018 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/o/oldham_athletic/2779979.stm}}</ref> He later became a [[scout (sport)|scout]] for West Ham.<ref name=ccfpa>{{cite web|url=http://www.ccfpa.co.uk/?p=292|title=David Cross at the Ricoh|publisher=Coventry City Former Players Association|date=22 March 2008| access-date=13 October 2017}}</ref> Cross also worked on opposition analysis for [[Blackburn Rovers F.C.|Blackburn Rovers]], leaving the post in 2016.<ref name=mls2017/>
==Honours==
===Club===
'''Norwich City'''
* Second Division champions: [[1971–72 Football League|1972]]
'''West Ham United'''
* FA Cup winner: [[1980 FA Cup Final|1980]]
* Second Division champions: [[The Football League 1980-81|1981]]
===Individual===
* Second Division Golden Boot: [[The Football League 1980-81|1980–81]] ''(34 goals)''
* NASL All-Star: [[1983 North American Soccer League season|1983]]<ref>{{cite news|title=1983 All-Stars |date=18 September 1983|work=United Press International|url=http://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/18/The-New-York-Cosmos-who-won-the-regular-season-point/2065432705600/ |access-date=13 January 2017|via=UPI Archives}}</ref> ''(honorable mention)''
==Personal life==
Cross has three children who have achieved some success in sport. Robert played [[Second XI Championship|Second XI cricket]] for [[Lancashire County Cricket Club|Lancashire]] for many years,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/44/44892/all_teams.html |title=Teams played for by Robert Cross |publisher=Cricket Archive |access-date=17 September 2009}}</ref> and acted as [[Cricket terminology#T|twelfth man]] for Lancashire First XI on several occasions. He is captain of Heywood Cricket Club of the Central Lancashire League and is the club's highest ever run scorer having amassed over 14000 runs to date, including 18 centuries. Jennifer played [[Netball Superleague]] for Northern Thunder<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.netballonline.com/Comps/UKNetballSuperleague/200607/tabid/106/Default.aspx |title=Netball SuperLeague 2006–2007 |publisher=Netball Online |access-date=17 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090730002555/http://www.netballonline.com/Comps/UKNetballSuperleague/200607/tabid/106/Default.aspx |archive-date=30 July 2009}}</ref> and Leeds Met Carnegie, and has appeared in the Lancashire Women's Cricket set-up.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/womens/domestic-womens-cricket/u19-women-get-global-opportunity,15451,EN.html |title=Lancs women go global |publisher=[[England and Wales Cricket Board]] |date=30 October 2007 |access-date=17 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225074639/http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/womens/domestic-womens-cricket/u19-women-get-global-opportunity,15451,EN.html |archive-date=25 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Kathryn Cross|Kathryn]], the youngest, played cricket for Lancashire Women's First XI at the age of 13; at 15 she was the first girl to be named in the Lancashire County Boys Academy, and progressed to the England Women's Academy and Development Squad.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/297085.html |title=Katie Cross |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |first=Jenny |last=Thompson |date=September 2007 |access-date=17 September 2009}}</ref> Having impressed for England women's academy in 2010, Kathryn was called up to England women's tour of Australia in January 2011 following injuries to Claire Taylor and Beth Morgan.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ecb.co.uk/stats/player-profiles/kate-cross,776,PP.html?statsType=2 |title=Kate Cross |publisher=European Central Bank |access-date=15 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310071513/http://www.ecb.co.uk/stats/player-profiles/kate-cross,776,PP.html?statsType=2 |archive-date=10 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |last1=Davage |first1=Mark |last2=Eastwood |first2=John |last3=Platt |first3=Kevin |title=Canary Citizens |year=2001 |publisher=Jarrold Publishing |isbn=0-7117-2020-7 |name-list-style=amp}}
==External links==
* {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217113859/http://mytimeinfootball.com/David_Cross|date=17 December 2014|title=My Time in Football interview}}
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{{1980–81 Football League Second Division PFA Team of the Year}}
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{{Norwich City F.C. Hall of Fame}}
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