Roy McCrohan is a former professional footballer. He was a half-back who spent the majority of his career with Norwich City

Norwich City F.C.

Norwich City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk. As of the 2011–12 season, Norwich City are again playing in the Premier League after a six-year absence, having finished as runner up in the Championship in 2010–11 and winning automatic promotion.The...

 before playing for Colchester United

Colchester United F.C.

Colchester United Football Club is an English football club based in Colchester. The club was formed in 1937, and briefly shared their old Layer Road home with now defunct side Colchester Town who had previously used the ground from 1910....

 and Bristol Rovers

Bristol Rovers F.C.

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McCrohan was a member of the Norwich sides which reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup

FA Cup

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 in 1959 as a third division team, won promotion to division two in 1960 and won the League Cup

Football League Cup

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 in 1962. He later coached at Bristol Rovers, Aldershot

Aldershot F.C.

Aldershot Football Club was an English Football League club, which was wound up in the High Court in March 1992. They became the first Football League club since Accrington Stanley to resign from the League during the course of a season. The club was nicknamed the Shots for both the last syllable...

, Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town F.C.

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 and was assistant manager at Luton Town

Luton Town F.C.

Luton Town Football Club is an English professional football club based since 1905 at Kenilworth Road, Luton, Bedfordshire. The club currently competes in the fifth tier of English football, the Conference National, for the third consecutive season during the 2011–12 season.Formed in 1885, it was...

 before moving to live in the United States

United States

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. He was an assistan coach for the Detroit Express

Detroit Express

The Detroit Express was a soccer team based in suburban Detroit that played in the now defunct North American Soccer League from 1978 to 1980. Its home field was the Pontiac Silverdome. The Express were co-owned and directed by famous English soccer pundit Jimmy Hill who was also the managing...

 for the 1978 NASL season. He was named head coach of the Minnesota Kicks

Minnesota Kicks

Minnesota Kicks were a professional soccer team that played at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota from 1976 to 1981. The team was a member of the now defunct North American Soccer League. The team had relocated to Minnesota after having been based in Denver, Colorado as the Denver Dynamos...

 on December 14, 1978. He coached the team for the 1979 NASL season and first nine games of the 1980 NASL season.

He lives in Tallahassee, Florida and coaches youth soccer now.