Charlie Hannaford

Charlie Hannaford
Personnel
Surname	Charles William Hannaford
birthday	January 8, 1896
place of birth	Finsbury Park , London ,  England
date of death	July 28, 1970
Place of death	Aylesbury ,  England
position	Winger (left)
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Page Green Old Boys
1919-1920	Tufnell Park
1920-1921	Maidstone United
1921-1923	Millwall FC	37 (12)
1923-1924	Charlton Athletic	20 0(2)
1924-1925	Clapton Orient	63 (10)
1925-1927	Manchester United	11 0(0)
1928-1929	Clapton Orient	4 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Charles William "Charlie" Hannaford (born January 8, 1896 in Finsbury Park , London , † July 28, 1970 in Aylesbury ) was an English football player .

Career

Hannaford was one of the outstanding footballers of his class during his school days and played for the English national school team against Wales in 1910, previously he was the outstanding player in the Tottenham school selection , which reached the quarter-finals of the English Schools' Shields 1909/10. Although he was a student at the Belmont School , he subsequently played for the Page Green Old Boys, an amateur team that was actually reserved for former students of the Page Green School, until the game was closed due to the First World War . With the Old Boys he reached the quarterfinals of the FA Amateur Cup in 1914/15, which was lost in the replay against FC Clapton . He was also registered as an amateur for Tottenham Hotspur in the Football League . For his only use for the Spurs Hannaford came in the London Football Combination , a war-related replacement league, on December 25, 1916 in a game against Brentford FC . From 1919 Hannaford played for the amateur club Tufnell Park , with which the left winger reached the final of the FA Amateur Cup in 1920; in the semifinals he had scored the winning goal against Stanley United . In the final game, Hannaford injured himself and had to leave the field before the half-time break, his teammates lost the game after overtime with 0: 1 against Dulwich Hamlet .

For the season 1920/21 Hannaford moved to the professional camp at Maidstone United in the Kent League , for which he scored 39 goals this season in the following months, before he was piloted by Millwall FC in the Football League Third Division South in March 1921 . After twelve goals in 37 missions for the club from the Southeast of London, he moved in July 1923 within the league to the neighboring club Charlton Athletic . He played there for a few months before he was committed in March 1924 by East London second division Clapton Orient to compensate for the departure of left winger and England international Owen Williams , who had been sold to Middlesbrough FC . At the O's, Hannaford contributed a goal in his debut game in a 4-0 win against Coventry City and was subsequently a regular on the left wing, where he attracted attention with powerful runs and a hard shot. In mid-1925 he took part with a selection of the Football Association on a month-long trip to Australia, during which the national players Teddy Davison , Len Graham , Harry Hardy , Ernie Simms and Charlie Spencer belonged to the tour group. The selection played a total of 25 games on the "fifth continent", all of which were won.

In December 1925 Hannaford moved to Manchester United in the north-east of England for £ 1,000, playing in the First Division for the first time shortly before his 30th birthday . At United, Hannaford rarely came up against rivals Frank McPherson , Harry Thomas and Teddy Partridge on the left wing and submitted a transfer request as early as November 1926, which, despite an offer from his ex-club Clapton, was rejected by the club's management. At the end of the season he was no longer signed by United and Hannaford was considering moving to Australia. In September 1928 he joined Clapton Orient again, but he could no longer build on his previous services and came in the 1928/29 season only to four missions when Clapton was relegated from the second division as bottom of the table.

Off the pitch, Hannaford was a renowned pianist whose specialty was jazz .

literature

• Colin Cameron: The Valiant 500 . Colin Cameron, Sidcup 1991, ISBN 978-0-9517729-0-4 , pp. 122 .
• Garth Dykes: The United Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1994, ISBN 0-9514862-6-8 , pp. 171 .
• Bob Goodwin: The Spurs Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Tottenham Hotspur FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1992, ISBN 0-9514862-8-4 , pp. 397 .
• Neilson N. Kaufman: The Men Who Made Leyton Orient Football Club . Tempus Publishing Ltd., Stroud 2002, ISBN 0-7524-2412-2 , pp. 204 .
• Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . 2nd revised edition. Soccerdata, Nottingham 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 113 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dean Hayes: Manchester United Football Facts . John Blake Publishing Ltd, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-84454-795-1 , pp. 132 .
2. ^ Colm Kerrigan: Teachers and Football: Schoolboy Association Football in England, 1885-1915 . Routledge, Abingdon 2005, ISBN 0-7130-4063-7 , pp. 147 ff .
3. ^ Bob Goodwin: Tottenham Hotspur - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 2007, ISBN 978-1-85983-567-8 , pp. 294 f .