Mike Conroy (footballer, born 1965), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Scottish footballer
Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1965
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Profession: association football player
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Mike Conroy (footballer, born 1965)
- Michael Kevin Conroy (born 31 December 1965) is a Scottish former professional footballer.
- He played as a striker. Conroy began his career with Coventry City in 1983.
- Unable to break into the first team, he moved back to his native Scotland in 1984 to sign with Clydebank on a free transfer.
- In three years with the Bankies, he made 114 league appearances and scored 38 goals.
- In 1987, he joined St Mirren for ten months, scoring one goal in ten appearances for the Buddies. He returned south of the border in 1988 to join Reading in a £50,000 deal.
- He spent three years at Elm Park, before moving to Burnley in 1991, where the most prolific scoring period of his career would begin.
- In his two years with Burnley, Conroy scored 30 goals in 77 league appearances.
- Conroy joined Burnley's Lancashire rivals Preston North End in 1993 for £85,000.
- He went on to score 22 goals in 57 appearances for North End and briefly played alongside a young David Beckham. In 1995, he joined Fulham, and scored 32 goals in almost 100 appearances for the Craven Cottage club.
- After three years in London, Conroy moved back to Lancashire to join Blackpool for a £50,000 fee.
- He made fourteen appearances for the Seasiders but failed to find the net in the league (though he did score once against Scunthorpe United in the League Cup).
- In December 1998 he was loaned out to Chester City, for whom he scored three goals in ten appearances.
- He returned to the Blues, again on loan, a month after his first period expired. After leaving Blackpool in 1999, Conroy moved to Australia to play for Carlton.
- In 2000, he joined Eastern Pride, with whom he finished his playing career when they went out of business the following year.
- Conroy was senior coach at Doncaster Rovers Soccer Club in the Victorian State League Division 2.
- He began his coaching career as reserve-team coach at Doncaster Rovers.
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