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Darwen, Lancashire born left back Maurice Reeday began his football career with hometown Lancashire Combination club Darwen, signing for Second Division club Blackpool in 1935. He spent 1935-36 at Bloomfield Road without making their first eleven and joined Accrington Stanley in the summer of 1936, where he made his Football League debut against Lincoln City that August. After 28 matches for Stanley he attracted the attention of First Division club Leicester City who signed him in the 1937 close season, where he missed only a handful of matches over the next two seasons, missing two games as Leicester were relegated in 1938-39. However the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 substantially interrupted his football career, by when he had scored twice in 82 matches for The Foxes, and after the War he returned to play for Darwen in 1947, his final club before his eventual retirement.