days Perry, an outside-left, signed for Blackpool in 1949 after being recommended to the club by scout Billy Butler, who coached him at Johannesburg Rangers. Perry made his league debut for Blackpool on 18 March 1950, in a win at
Manchester United. The following season, his
FA Cup semi-final replay goal against
Birmingham City helped put Blackpool into the
Final against
Newcastle United. Perry's most notable achievement was scoring the injury-time winner in the
1953 FA Cup Final against
Bolton Wanderers, cementing a comeback from 1–3 to 4–3 thanks to an earlier
Stan Mortensen hat-trick. As in 1951, his semi-final goal, this time against
Tottenham Hotspur, sent Blackpool on their way to Wembley. During the
1955–56 season, Perry scored twenty goals (a record for a winger) (including a hat-trick in the first of two
West Lancashire derbies in the space of twenty-four hours) to help Blackpool to their highest-ever league position of runners-up in the
First Division. A cartilage operation virtually ended Perry's playing career, and after being in and out of the side, he was transfer-listed in the summer of 1962.
Southport came in for his services, where he played 26 games from August 1962 until May 1963 when he joined
Hereford United. He remained at Edgar Street for just the one season and made a total of 29 appearances for Hereford during his time there. Perry left Hereford at the end of the 1963–64 season and had a short spell in Australia before retiring with Holyhead Town. He became a director of
Fleetwood Town between 1967 and 1970. ==Blackpool F.C. Hall of Fame==