Birthdate: 18 February 1898 Birthplace: Fencehouses, Co Durham, England Date of death: 1985 Other clubs: Chester-Le-Street , Fencehouses, Sunderland (1920-21), Bristol City (1925-29), Blackburn Rovers (1929-30), Reading (1930-31), Mansfield Town (1931-32), Crewe Alexandra (1932-33) Bought from: Sunderland Signed for LFC: £250, 10.08.1921 Liverpool debut: 04.03.1922 Last appearance: 16.03.1925 Debut goal: 01.04.1922 Last goal: 04.11.1922 Contract expiry: May 1925 Win ratio: 57.89% W:11 D:3 L:5 Games/goals ratio: 6.33 League games / goals: 19 / 3 Total games / goals: 19 / 3

Player Profile

Gilhespy was an outside-right who played in 19 first division games for Liverpool in the 1920's, spread over four seasons. Billy Lacey was established in the side when the club won the League title in 1921/22 and he only missed three matches that season with Gilhespy stepping in on two of those occasions. Lacey missed a number of games in the middle of the following season when Liverpool also finished in first place, but the ten matches Gilhespy figured in were not enough to qualify him for a Championship medal. Even though Lacey was still at the club, Gilhespy was selected for the opening four League fixtures of the 1923/24 season but hardly had a look-in after that run. Gilhespy was a vital part of the Bristol City team that won promotion to Second Division in the 1926/27 season, but after less than stellar progress by the club at this level he moved to first division Blackburn Rovers after four years at City. Gilhespy wasn‘t first-choice at Rovers and went on a transfer merry-go-round where he never stayed more than 12 months at each club.