James Dailey (8 September 1927 – January 2002) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre forward.
[1] At the start of the following season he scored ten in seven weeks, including all five in a 5–2 defeat of Barnsley,[2] but the club preferred Eddie Quigley and Clarrie Jordan.
The next season, 1949–50, he was top scorer with nine goals in 23 games for a poor side which finished at the bottom of the table, but after that he rarely played.
After leaving Birmingham he went on to score freely in the lower divisions, notably with 74 goals in 176 League games for Workington, including a club all-time record 26 in 1956–57.
[5] Dailey later played non-League football in the south-west of England and managed Portland United and Dorchester Town.