Alec Stock

Alec Stock
Personnel
Surname	Alec William Alfred Stock
birthday	March 30, 1917
place of birth	Peasedown St John , Somerset ,  England
date of death	April 16, 2001
Place of death	Wimborne Minster , Dorset , England
size	175 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1936-1938	Charlton Athletic
1938-1939	Queens Park Rangers
1946-1949	Yeovil Town
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1949-1956	Leyton Orient
1956	Arsenal FC (Assistant)
1956-1957	Leyton Orient
1957	AS Roma
1957-1959	Leyton Orient
1959-1968	Queens Park Rangers
1968-1972	Luton Town
1972-1976	Fulham FC
1978	Queens Park Rangers (interim)
1979-1980	Bournemouth AFC
1 Only league games are given.

Alec Stock (born March 30, 1917 in Peasedown St John , Somerset , † April 16, 2001 in Wimborne Minster , Dorset ) was an English football player on the position of a striker who was a player- coach at his last station in Yeovil Town and then still worked as a football coach for a good quarter of a century .

Life

Stock was born in the Somerset mining region to a miner . After the 1926 general strike , his family moved to Dartford , Kent . When he left school, Stock first worked in a bank. However, he detested this activity and was all the more absorbed in his sporting leisure activities. One of them was soccer . First he played on an amateur basis and completed some trial training at Tottenham Hotspur in 1936 . After Jimmy Seed , the longtime coach of Charlton Athletic (1933-1956), became aware of his talent, he engaged the young man. But during his two years with Charlton he was not used in a single point game. In 1938 he moved to the Queens Park Rangers , for which he completed a few games. But an ankle injury forced him to take a longer break, which was considerably extended by the early outbreak of World War II .

He married in 1943 and actually wanted to work as a bookmaker after the war . But his wife urged him to accept the offer from Yeovil Town, a club in his home region of Somerset. At the club playing in the lower-class Southern Football League , he worked as a player-coach for three years and sensationally reached the last 16 of the FA Cup in his last season in 1948/49 . On the way there, the favorite scare had prevailed against, among others, Bury (3-1) and Sunderland (2-1), before losing 8-0 to Manchester United .

The great success of Yeovil Town had impressed the London shoe manufacturer Harry Zussman, who hired Stock as a trainer for Leyton Orient . It was a fruitful partnership that spanned a decade . Stock had briefly turned his back on the club twice - in 1956 he became assistant coach at Arsenal FC and in 1957 he temporarily coached AS Roma - but soon came back in both cases.

In 1959 he moved to the Queens Park Rangers , where he formed a young team and was under contract for as long as Leyton (nine years without a break!). With the Super Hoops , he won the League Cup in 1966/67 (the club's greatest success until then) and rose to the top English league a year later . But in August 1968 he left QPR and then trained for four seasons each, first Luton Town and later Fulham . In 1969/70 he was promoted to the second division with Luton and in 1974/75 he reached the FA Cup final with Fulham for the first time in the club's history, which was lost to West Ham United (0-2).

Web links

• Alec Stock: Giant-killer with Yeovil Town who brought success to Leyton Orient (English; article from April 18, 2001)

literature

• Gordon Macey: Queen's Park Rangers - The Complete Record . Breedon Books Publ. (Derby, 2009), p. 243 ISBN 978-1-85983-714-6