Albert Scanlon

Albert Scanlon
Personnel
Surname	Albert Joseph Scanlon
birthday	October 10, 1935
place of birth	Hulme ,  England
date of death	December 22, 2009
Place of death	Salford ,  England
size	178 cm
position	Left winger
Juniors
Years	station
	All saints
	Manchester United
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1952-1960	Manchester United	115 (34)
1960–1962	Newcastle United	22 0(5)
1962-1963	Lincoln City	47 (11)
1963-1966	Mansfield Town	108 (21)
1966	Belper Town
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1958-1959	England U-23	5 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Albert Joseph Scanlon (born October 10, 1935 in Hulme , Manchester , † December 22, 2009 in Salford , Greater Manchester ) was an English football player .

Career

Scanlon won the FA Youth Cup in 1953 and 1954 with the Manchester United youth team alongside players like Duncan Edwards , Bobby Charlton and Billy Whelan , who would later go down in history as Busby Babes . After he had signed a professional contract in December 1952, he made his league debut against Arsenal on November 20, 1954 under Matt Busby , who consistently relied on his own offspring . The left wing position in the professional team was mostly occupied by the same age David Pegg , so that Scanlon completed fewer than ten missions when winning the championships in 1956 and 1957 and is therefore not counted among the championship team.

A few weeks after he was able to fight for a regular place in the team, he had an accident on February 6, 1958 with the team on the way back from the European Cup quarter-finals against Red Star Belgrade at Munich-Riem Airport . Eight of his teammates were killed when British European Airways Flight 609 slipped off the runway while attempting to take off. Scanlon survived with head injuries and a broken leg and returned to the field for the following season. He played all 42 league games of the 1958/59 season , scored 16 goals and thus contributed to the surprising achievement of second place in the table. His achievements brought the fast winger in the 1958/59 season five appearances in the English U-23 selection and in 1960 one use in a selection game for the Football League . Due to a lack of consistency and falling form, he finally moved in November 1960 for about 18,000 pounds to league rivals Newcastle United , who was trained by Scanlon's uncle Charlie Mittens .

During his time at Newcastle he was in competition with Liam Tuohy , after the dismissal of Mittens in October 1961 Scanlon's time at United was drawing to a close; in February 1962 he was finally given after only 27 missions for a transfer of 2,000 pounds to the third division club Lincoln City . His professional career ended from April 1963 to summer 1966 at Mansfield Town , with whom he achieved promotion to the Third Division shortly after his arrival in 1963 and made a total of 108 league appearances. For a short time he continued his playing career in amateur football at Belper Town , but ended his active career in October 1966 for good.

After his career, Scanlon worked as a dock worker, security guard and warehouse clerk, among other things. In 2004, he and Harry Gregg reported on a radio show on BBC4 that they and other Manchester United players were taking amphetamines regularly during the 1950s . In October 2009 he was admitted to the intensive care unit of Salford Royal Hospital with kidney problems and pneumonia , where he died on December 22, 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary on the Manchester United website
2. ↑ Thomas Kistner: shot. The secret doping history of football. Munich 2015 ISBN 978-3-426-42714-9 p. 40
3. ↑ Verner Møller, Ivan Waddington, John M. Hoberman: Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Sport 2015 ISBN 978-0415702782

literature

• 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. 339 f .
• Paul Joannou: The Black 'n' White Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Newcastle United FC Polar Print Group Ltd., Leicester 1996, ISBN 1-899538-03-8 , p. 355 f .