Stanley Clarence Harland (19 June 1940 – 30 August 2001) was an English
football
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centre half.
Career
Born in
Liverpool, Harland's football career began at local club
New Brighton New Brighton is the name of several places, sports teams etc.:
Australia
* New Brighton, New South Wales, a town near Ocean Shores
Canada
* New Brighton, Calgary, Alberta, a neighborhood
* New Brighton (Gambier Island), a settlement in British ...
. It was from here that he attracted interest from
Everton who signed him in 1959. Harland moved to
Bradford City where he scored 20 goals in 120 league games for the club before being transferred to
Carlisle United
Carlisle United Football Club ( , ) is a professional association football club based in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. The team compete in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. They have played their home games at Brunton Par ...
.
Carlisle won promotion to the
Second Division in his first season with the club, Harland played in every game. The arrival of
Gordon Marsland saw him lose his first team place and he asked for a transfer.
Harland signed for
Swindon Town on 29 July 1966, the day before England beat West Germany in the
World Cup Final at Wembley, after Swindon manager
Danny Williams and chief scout
Jack Conley sat outside Carlisle's ground (
Brunton Park
Brunton Park is a football stadium and the home of Carlisle United. It is situated in the city of Carlisle and has a certified capacity of 17,949. The ground opened in 1909. Brunton Park's grandstand burned down in 1953 and the stadium floode ...
) overnight to make sure of his signature.
Harland debuted for the team in the first game of the
1966–67 season against
Brighton and Hove Albion, a 2–2 draw. He scored his first goal for the club in a 2–3 defeat to
Walsall the following season and was voted 1967-68 Player of the Season.
His partnerships with
Mel Nurse and later
Frank Burrows helped Swindon to reach their successes of the 1960s, forming an effective defence. Harland became team captain on Nurse's departure in 1968 after being ever-present in the first team since his début.
As captain, he received the
League Cup after defeating
Arsenal
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at
Wembley Stadium in 1969.
Harland lost his captaincy and position to
Dave Mackay
David Craig Mackay (14 November 1934 – 2 March 2015) was a Scottish football player and manager. Mackay was best known for a highly successful playing career with Heart of Midlothian, the Double-winning Tottenham Hotspur side of 1961, an ...
when he joined Swindon in 1971, manager
Fred Ford gave him the role of auxiliary defender but Harland was dropped from the team when Mackay took over Coaching of the club as
player-manager. His last game for Swindon was a win away at
Burnley on 27 November 1971, he assisted the team in ending a six-game run without a victory. Even though he was named
Man of the Match,
he was sold to
Birmingham City for
£15,000.
Harland made 38 appearances for Birmingham, helping them win promotion to the
First Division in 1972 and reach the
FA Cup semi-final of the same year. His career was ended through injury although he moved to become player-manager of
Yeovil Town and later worked with
Frank Burrows at
Portsmouth in a coaching capacity.
Harland was married to an ice-dancing champion and had two daughters, he also often played in the Professional Footballers' Golf Championship. After leaving football he worked in the
Supermarket
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business and continued working up until his death from a
heart attack on 30 August 2001 in
Tintinhull,
Somerset.
Honours
*Carlisle United
:Third Division Champion 1964-65
*Swindon Town
:Second Division promotion winner 1969
:League Cup winner 1969
:
Anglo-Italian League Cup winner 1969
:
Anglo-Italian Cup
The Anglo-Italian Cup ( it, Coppa Anglo-Italiana, also known as the Anglo-Italian Inter-League Clubs Competition and from 1976 to 1986 as the Alitalia Challenge Cup, Talbot Challenge Cup or Gigi Peronace Memorial) is a defunct European football c ...
winner 1970
*Birmingham City
:Second Division promotion winner 1972
References
External links
*
Player Profile- Swindon-Town-FC.co.uk
Tribute from Yeovil Town F.C.
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1940 births
2001 deaths
New Brighton A.F.C. players
Everton F.C. players
Bradford City A.F.C. players
Carlisle United F.C. players
Swindon Town F.C. players
Birmingham City F.C. players
Yeovil Town F.C. players
Men's association football defenders
English men's footballers
Yeovil Town F.C. managers
Footballers from Liverpool
English football managers