Peter John Walter Atyeo was an English footballer who played as a striker.
38 Facts About John Atyeo
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John Atyeo spent the majority of his career at Bristol City.
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John Atyeo won six England caps between 1955 and 1957, scoring five goals.
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John Atyeo was born at Clivey on the outskirts of Dilton Marsh, Wiltshire.
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John Atyeo went to Berkley Primary School, near Frome, Somerset after his parents had moved the short distance over the county line to Standerwick when he was about six months old.
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John Atyeo went on to Trowbridge Boys' High School.
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John Atyeo made 645 appearances and became Bristol City's all-time top scorer with 351 goals by the time he retired in May 1966.
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John Atyeo captained the team during their promotion-winning season in 1965.
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John Atyeo wrote a regular football column for the Plymouth-based Sunday Independent newspaper.
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John Atyeo died at home in Warminster of heart failure on 8 June 1993, survived by his wife Ruth and five children: Julie, Carol, Alison, Linda and Philip.
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John Atyeo walked along the main railway line to the signal box where Atyeo's father worked and returned with a signed contract.
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John Atyeo joined Bristol City, a mid-table side in the Third Division South, in the summer of 1951.
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On that occasion John Atyeo was helped by scoring one goal from a penalty.
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Bristol City started the season poorly, John Atyeo failed to score in the opening three matches at centre forward and moved to inside right for the remainder of his league appearances.
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John Atyeo made 33 appearances and score 11 goals which proved to be the lowest for any season of his prolific goalscoring career.
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John Atyeo enjoyed a post season friendly tour of Cornwall scoring twice at Penzance and four goals at Newquay in May 1953.
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John Atyeo began the season at inside right with Arnold Rodgers at centre forward and Cyril Williams at inside left.
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John Atyeo made 45 appearances and was the leading scorer with 22 goals, his highest seasons tally to date, as Bristol City netted 88 goals during the season.
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John Atyeo scored in a series of first team friendlies arranged throughout the season which saw the likes of Fenerbache, Chelsea, Hajduk Split and Arsenal visiting Ashton Gate.
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John Atyeo made 46 appearances and was top scorer with 28 goals as City scored 101 league goals.
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John Atyeo missed only 3 league games, all of which were defeats, two against Leeds United.
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City only won seven more league games after the win over Lincoln City and finished in 11th position in the final Second Division table as John Atyeo scored only 10 more goals in the remaining 20 matches, still a good goals per game ratio.
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John Atyeo started the season with five goals in the opening 4 matches playing mainly at inside right alongside Hinshelwood on the right wing.
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John Atyeo moved between inside right and centre forward depending on whether Curtis was playing in the team.
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John Atyeo was the leading scorer again with 23 goals and Curtis the only other to reach double figures with 13 goals in only 16 games.
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John Atyeo was top goalscorer again with 26 goals in 40 appearances leading the line as centre forward.
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John Atyeo finished a disappointing season as one of only two ever presents in the team, the other being the goalkeeper Tony Cook.
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John Atyeo was joint top scorer for Bristol City with 16 goals from his 42 appearances.
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John Atyeo only played in three of these backlog fixtures with Tait switching from right wing to centre forward.
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John Atyeo moved to centre forward for most of his 30 appearances scoring 16 goals and finishing behind both "Shadow" Williams and top scorer Brian Clark in the goal scoring charts.
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John Atyeo was ever present with 46 appearances scoring 21 goals.
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John Atyeo was the leading City goal scorer for the season ahead of inside forwards Clark, the only other ever present, with 19 goals and Williams 20 goals.
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John Atyeo scored 23 goals but made fewer appearances playing in only 38 matches.
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John Atyeo began the season at centre forward flanked by inside forwards Clark and "Shadow" Williams.
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John Atyeo made 35 appearances and ended his career as top scorer on 19 goals with Clark scoring 15 goals despite playing in more games.
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John Atyeo never failed to reach double figures for league goals scored in his 15-season career at Ashton Gate.
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Not picking John Atyeo had the desired effect with Bristol City winning their next seven consecutive games and in fact, they won twelve and drew two of their last fifteen games to clinch promotion.
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The new stand that replaced the Park End at Ashton Gate in 1994 is named the John Atyeo Stand after him.