Alf Arrowsmith

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Alf Arrowsmith
Personnel
Surname Alfred William Arrowsmith
birthday December 11, 1942
place of birth Manchester ,  England
date of death May 12, 2005
Place of death Tameside ,  England
position Center Forward
Juniors
Years station
until 1960 Tintwistle Villa
1960 Ashton United
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1960-1968 Liverpool FC 47 (20)
1968-1970 Wrexham AFC 48 (11)
1970-1972 Rochdale AFC 46 (14)
1972-1973 Macclesfield Town 20 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.

Alfred William "Alf" Arrowsmith (born December 11, 1942 in Manchester , † May 12, 2005 in Tameside ) was an English football player . As a center forward he was largely responsible for winning the English championship in 1964 at Liverpool FC with 15 goals . In the same year, however, he seriously injured his knee and from then on could not call up his previous performance.

Athletic career

Arrowsmith was a striker with distinctive qualities as a goalscorer. When he came to Liverpool in August 1960 , he had made a name for himself shortly before in the 1959/60 season, as he had scored 96 goals for his club Tintwistle Villa . He then spent four months at Ashton United , where he had scored nine more goals in seven games. During this time he met Bill Jones , who as an ex-Liverpool player now scouted for the club and recommended Arrowsmith. In addition to Liverpool, Sheffield Wednesday was also interested and although Liverpool, unlike Sheffield, only played in the second division at the time, an agreement was reached after a meeting with Liverpool coach Bill Shankly . The "Reds" paid a transfer fee of 1,500 pounds to Ashton United.

Under Shankly's leadership, Arrowsmith was initially carefully built up in the reserve team, where he continued to impress, making no fewer than 81 goals between 1961 and 1963. He made his first-team league debut on October 7, 1961 against Middlesbrough FC . He represented Ian St. John , who was active for the Scottish national team, and the game in which Arrowsmith were denied two goals because of an offside position was lost 2-0. It was the first defeat in a season that allowed Liverpool to return to the English elite class . The sporting breakthrough followed for Arrowsmith in the 1963/64 season, when he contributed 15 goals in 20 appearances to win the English championship - together the trio Ian St. John, Roger Hunt and Alf Arrowsmith scored 67 goals (out of a total of 92). In addition, he scored four goals on his FA Cup debut in a 5-0 win over Derby County . The sudden rise was soon followed by disillusionment, because in the 1964 Charity Shield game he injured his left knee so badly that it had to be replaced and he later had to take an 18-month break. He was initially certified that he had not suffered a break, but after a few weeks felt a great pain in his knee during a Friday training session and the following diagnosis revealed a cruciate ligament rupture . Arrowsmith only made 20 league appearances in the three years after winning the championship and it was obvious that while he was still strong, he was struggling with the short sprints and spins. When Liverpool won the championship again in the 1965/66 season , Arrowsmiths five appearances were not enough for the official receipt of a medal.

In December 1968 Arrowsmith moved to the second division AFC Wrexham . He later regretted this step, which he also took for the sake of his wife due to her family background, because in the first year he moved into the third class every now and then and he rarely found his performance. He later became happier with third-division rivals AFC Rochdale , where he ended his career in the early 1970s as well as later in the Northern Premier League at Macclesfield Town .

On May 12, 2005, Arrowsmith died after a short illness.

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Individual references / footnotes

  1. ↑ silkmenarchives.org.uk: Player Profiles - A , accessed July 25, 2017
  2. ↑ Redmen Revisited: Alf Arrowsmith ( Memento from May 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Player Profile: Alf Arrowsmith (LFCHistory.net)
personal data
SURNAME Arrowsmith, Alf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arrowsmith, Alfred William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester , England
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2005
Place of death Tameside , England