Exiled Bull struggles to remembers Delroy Facey at WBA:
"No Great Impact"
...is a polite summary of Delroy’s period at the Hawthorns. He was a Megson short-term signing in January 2004 as the Baggies marched towards their second promotion to the Premier League. To be frank, Megson needed some cheap bench fillers and Delroy was one of several incomers. The newbies got a few minutes on the pitch here and there if they were lucky. Occasionally, Megson’s preferred choices were too knackered to carry on with the required manic running. Geoff Horsfield was then his main striker.
Delroy wore the stripes nine times between January and May 2004 but only two of those were starts. He didn’t score but that wasn’t totally his fault. In that season, Albion strikers were expected to forage on very little, run the channels endlessly and defend a lot a la Stuart Fleetwood. Inevitably in home games, nothing of note happened for an hour until Lloyd Dyer (now of the Franchise) came on to use his pace to set up the winner from the left wing.
Memories are few other than Delroy had pace, missed the few chances he had on the pitch but off it never missed any opening to drop hints how much he’d like to sign for the Baggies. Sorry Delroy, even with such limited time, you never looked like a Premier League player. He was predictably told to go away in the summer.
Maybe Russell Hoult who was Albion’s keeper at the time, saw something in young Delroy during training that stayed in his memory?
Meanwhile the Lincoln fans see Facey's shoulder injury in the latter part of the season as the reason they were relegated.
He missed 12 of Lincoln's games in League Two last term, games in which they earned only three points and saw fellow striker Ashley Grimes score no goals. Imps fansite theimps.ka wrote of Facey:
Delroy Facey turned from a player who most fans didn't want into a player who's impact was never more felt than when he was made captain during the spell when City looked safe and it was Facey's injury towards the end of the season which saw City's form go seriously downhill.