Clive Toye, who once reported on Exeter City for the Express and Echo, later became a leading football administrator in the United States. Many years after leaving Exeter he donated his extensive newspaper reports from his days of covering the Grecians to the Exeter City Football Club Museum. 

Born in Plymouth in 1932, and having undertaken National Service in Korea, Clive Toye started his career on the Express and Echo where he reported on Exeter City and other local sport during the 1950s and 1960s before moving to Fleet Street to work on the Daily Express. 

After becoming the national title’s chief sports writer he moved to the United States in 1967 to become general manager of the Baltimore Bays in the fledgling National Professional Soccer League. Destined to spend the rest of his life in North America, and with the league soon becoming the North American Soccer League (NASL), Clive moved on to the New York Cosmos as the club’s first general manager after its' inception in 1970. He was to eventually help bring Pelé, by now ready to leave Santos towards the end of his career, to New York in a bid to popularise the sport in North America. With the club enjoying its 'golden era', and at times having also worked as a television commentator, Clive left the Cosmos in 1977 and was later president of Chicago Sting (1978 to 1979) and chairman of Toronto Blizzard (1980 to 1984).

Taking the role of interim president of NASL shortly before it folded in 1985, Clive additionally organised matches throughout the world and was part of the bid to bring the World Cup to the United States in 1994. He was inducted to the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2003 and, after becoming a senior consultant for CONCACAF (the governing body for the game in the Americas), was also made a member of that organisation’s hall of fame. 

[As a footnote Clive Toye was a near-contemporary of the Falmouth-born Colin Jose who, after moving to Canada in 1964, reported on the NASL for British soccer magazines and helped compile the The Encyclopedia of American Soccer History]