Career
Playing career
Halom featured as a player most prominently for Sunderland and Oldham Athletic. Having only joined the club 3 months earlier, he scored important goals in the fifth round replay against Manchester City and the semi-final against Arsenal. Coaching career
Halom moved into management in the early 1980s managing Bergsøy in Norway.
This led to him being appointed Rochdale manager at the end of the season.
Halom began with a mass clear out, many of the incomers being ex-Oldham players. The side struggled to gel at first but things markedly improved when the under-performing record signing Les Lawrence was sold and replaced by proven goalscorer Steve Taylor late in 1984.
Immediately after that the team went into steep decline not helped by the disastrous signing of David Mossman who moved on at a loss after less than ten games At the end of the season despite Rochdale having escaped re-election by one point Halom was retained but told by chairman Tommy Cannon to try to sell those players under expensive contracts. This seriously weakened the side and after Taylor was sold in October 1986 the club had sunk to bottom of the League by December.
Halom was sacked and after being disillusioned with the politics in football never managed a League club again.
In 1992 he stood as a Liberal Democrat candidate for Sunderland in the 1992 General Election but finished third.
