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1940 Football League War Cup Final
The 1940 Football League War Cup Final was contested by West Ham United and Blackburn Rovers. Route to the final En route to the final West Ham played Chelsea, Leicester City, Huddersfield Town and Birmingham City before a semi-final with Fulham which they won 4-3. Match It was played on 8 June 1940 and kicked off at 6.30pm despite fears that London would be bombed by the Luftwaffe. The wartime crowd included wounded members of the BEF recently evacuated from Dunkirk. West Ham won the tie 1–0; the only goal coming from Sam Small in the 34th minute when he followed up a parried shot from George Foreman. http://www.anyoldirons.me.uk/pdf/1900%20-%201960/09_06_40.pdf Match details Post Match The trophy was presented to the winning team by A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty. As the match was played during wartime, no reception was held for the winning team. Some players went to the Boleyn public house on Green Street for ''a few pints'' whilst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football League War Cup
The Football League War Cup was an association football tournament held between 1939 and 1945. It aimed to fill the gap left in English football by the suspension of the FA Cup during the Second World War. Though it was often referred to in contemporary coverage as the "League Cup" or "Football League Cup", it is not to be confused with the later English football competition with the same name, which was formed in 1960 and is currently known as the EFL Cup. As with all wartime football in England, records and statistics from the competition are not considered official. Overview The Football League (War) Cup was formed in 1940 to be a replacement for the FA Cup, which had been suspended for the duration of the conflict. Ties were played over two legs in order to boost revenue for clubs. In the 1941–42 season, 16 clubs from London and South East England did not participate owing to a dispute with the Football League over the formation of a separate London League. Instead they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Bicknell (footballer)
Charles Bicknell (6 November 1905 – 6 September 1994) was an English professional footballer who played as a left back. Active between 1928 and 1947, Bicknell made over 450 appearances in the Football League. Career Bicknell began his early career in non-league football, playing for teams such as New Tupton Ivanhoe, among others. He began his Football League career in October 1927 with Chesterfield, where he made 79 appearances between 1928 and 1930. He went on to play for Bradford City and West Ham United. He was captain of the West Ham United team that won the 1940 Football League War Cup Final, the wartime replacement of the FA Cup, beating Blackburn 1-0 at Wembley Stadium. Bicknell left West Ham in 1947, and was appointed player-manager of Bedford Town in April 1948, where he remained in charge until 1951, after which he remained involved at the club until 1959. Personal life Bicknell was related to ice skater Jayne Torvill Jayne Torvill, OBE (born 7 Oct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Pryde
Robert Ireland Pryde (25 April 1913 – 30 June 1998) was a Scottish footballer, who played for East Fife, St Johnstone and Blackburn Rovers. He also appeared as a guest player for West Ham United later in World War II. In the summer of 1949, he joined Wigan Athletic as a player-manager. During the 1949–50 season, he played 22 games and scored two goals in the Lancashire Combination as the club finished as the league's runners-up. He decided to end his playing career before the start of the following season, and went on to win the league title as manager. He left the club in January 1952. Honours As manager * Lancashire Combination The Lancashire Combination was a football league founded in the North West of England in 1891–92. It absorbed the Lancashire League in 1903. In 1968 the Combination lost five of its clubs to the newly formed Northern Premier League. In 1982 it ...: 1950–51 References External links * 1913 births 1998 deaths People from Methil S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Whiteside
Arnold Whiteside (6 November 1911 – 1994) was an English footballer who played as a wing half in The Football League for Blackburn Rovers. Club career Born in Garstang, Lancashire, Whiteside played as a junior for Woodplumpton Juniors before joining Blackburn in 1932. His career was interrupted by World War II and during this conflict he was a member of the Blackburn side which lost the 1940 Football League War Cup Final The 1940 Football League War Cup Final was contested by West Ham United and Blackburn Rovers. Route to the final En route to the final West Ham played Chelsea, Leicester City, Huddersfield Town and Birmingham City before a semi-final with Fu .... Guesting for Liverpool during World War II, Whiteside returned to Blackburn after the war before moving to Wigan Athletic in 1949. He played over 400 times in all competitions for Blackburn. He spent one season at Wigan, appearing 24 times in the league without scoring. References {{DEFAULTSORT:White ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Crook
Walter Crook (28 April 1913 – 27 December 1988) was an English football player and manager. Career Playing career Crook, who played as a full back, played in the Football League for Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers, making a total of 264 appearances. He holds the record for most consecutive Football League appearances by a Blackburn player (208 between 1934 and 1946). Crook also made one wartime international appearance for England in 1939. Coaching career Crook managed Dutch side Ajax between 1948 and 1950, and again between 1953 and 1954. He also managed Sparta Rotterdam and English club sides Accrington Stanley and Wigan Athletic. Personal life Walter was born in Whittle-le-Woods Whittle-le-Woods (commonly shortened to Whittle) is a village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 5,434. Whittle-le-Woods lies on the A6, about three m ..., the son of Jane Parker and Alfred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Hough (footballer)
William Hough (4 March 1908 – ?) was a Welsh professional footballer. He played six seasons for Preston North End Preston North End Football Club, commonly referred to as Preston, North End or PNE, is a professional football club in Preston, Lancashire, England, who currently play in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league syste ... before joining Blackburn Rovers in 1937. Characterized as a "steady rather than a showy player", Hough established himself in the right-back position and helped Preston North End get promoted to the First Division in the 1933-34 season. He suffered a series of injuries and didn't see much playing time until his transfer to Blackburn. He subsequently helped Blackburn get promoted to the First Division in the 1938-39 season. He played in the Blackburn side that faced West Ham in the 1940 Football League War Cup Final. References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Hough, William 1908 births People from Holywell, Flintsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Barron (footballer)
James Barron (19 July 1913 – 15 September 1969) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Barron played for Durham City and Blyth Spartans before joining Blackburn Rovers, for whom he made his debut in April 1936. During the Second World War, he played in the North-Eastern League in County Durham, where he was engaged on munitions work. He returned to Blackburn as a guest player for the 1940 Football League War Cup Final, which the Rovers lost to West Ham United. Barron saved a shot from George Foreman before Sam Small scored on the rebound. He resumed his career after the war with Darlington. His son, Jim Barron, played as a goalkeeper for a number of Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ... clubs, making over 400 appeara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Paynter
Charlie Paynter (28 July 1879 in Swindon – 1 December 1971) was the manager of West Ham United from 1932 to 1950. He moved to Plaistow with his family as a child. He played for the local teams Victoria Swifts and South West Ham, but while still a teenager he also developed an interest in physiotherapy. Paynter first became involved with West Ham United in 1897 as unpaid help. In the 1900–01 season Paynter joined the club as a player although he never played for the first-team. He sustained a knee injury in a match against Woolwich Arsenal which ended his career and the club appointed him reserve-team trainer in 1902. He was then promoted to first-team trainer, replacing Syd King, who was appointed first team manager. When King was sacked in 1933, Paynter replaced him. At the time of his appointment the club were near the foot of the Second Division table and in serious danger of a second successive relegation, which was avoided by just one point at the end of the seaso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Foxall
Joseph Stanley Foxall (8 September 1914 – 12 August 1991) was an English footballer who played in the Football League as a forward for West Ham United. Career Born in Crowle, Lincolnshire, Foxall had been playing football at Gainsborough Trinity, where he spent three seasons, before being signed by West Ham United in 1934. He made four league appearances in his first season, replacing John Foreman on the right wing. He represented the London Combination against the Central League in November 1936. Foxall could operate anywhere along the forward line, and was often moved from the right wing to a more central role, swapping with Sam Small, by Charlie Paynter. Foxall made 149 war-time league and cup appearances for the east London club, scoring 63 goals, and was a member of the team that won the Football League War Cup in 1940. His career at West Ham was cut short by a knee injury sustained in a game against Queens Park Rangers in September 1944. He subsequently join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Goulden
Leonard Arthur Goulden (16 July 1912 – 14 February 1995) was an English footballer who played as an inside-left. His son Roy was also a footballer. Club career Goulden was born at Homerton, in Hackney, London, and raised in nearby Plaistow. He signed for West Ham United as an amateur in 1931, but was sent out to Chelmsford City and Leyton to gain experience. During this time he supported himself by working at the Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Silvertown. He signed professional forms with West Ham in 1933 and remained with the Hammers for six years, making over 250 appearances and scoring 55 goals from the inside-left position. He was an ever-present, along with Joe Cockroft, during the 1936–37 season. His West Ham career was interrupted when World War II started and he never played another competitive match for the club, though he did win the Football League War Cup with them in 1940. Following the conflict, he signed with west Londoners Chelsea for £4,500 and linked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Macaulay
Archibald Renwick Macaulay (30 July 1915 – 10 June 1993) was a Scottish football player and manager. Playing career Born in Falkirk, Macaulay started his playing career in junior football and joined Rangers in 1933, where he became a regular at the age of only 18. Playing as an inside right, he won a Scottish Cup medal in 1935–36 and a Scottish League Championship medal the year after. In 1937 he was transferred to West Ham United for £6,000; the Second World War interrupted his career somewhat but he still won a Wartime Cup medal in 1940 and played five unofficial wartime matches for Scotland. Macaulay was signed by Brentford in October 1946, and made his official Scotland debut against England at Wembley Stadium on 12 April 1947. By this time he had been converted to a wing half, Brentford were relegated to the Second Division at the end of the 1946–47 season. Macaulay was selected to play for Great Britain in a one-off match in May 1947. He was signed by Arsenal i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Cockroft
Joseph Cockroft (20 June 1911 – February 1994) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Rotherham United, West Ham United, Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United. Cockroft played for Yorkshire Paper Mills, Barnsley Old Boys, Ardsley Athletic, Wombwell, Rotherham United and then Gainsborough Trinity before moving to West Ham United, then of Division Two, in 1933. Signed after a months trial from Gainsborough by Charlie Paynter, Cockroft made his West Ham debut on 14 April 1933, having made just four reserve appearances for the club. Drafted in after injuries to first-choice left-halves Albert Cadwell and Joe Musgrave, he made the position his own and rarely missed a game up to the outbreak of World War II. Cockroft played as a left-half, but often switched positions with Len Goulden during matches to dumbfound oppositions. He was an ever-present in the team for the 1933–34, 1934–35, 1935–36 and 1936–37 seasons, making 217 consecutive appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |