Arthur Shaw (football player, 1924)

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Arthur Shaw
Personnel
Surname Arthur Shaw
birthday April 9, 1924
place of birth Limehouse ,  England
date of death November 2, 2015
Place of death Hermosa Beach , California ,  USA
position External rotor (right)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1941 Hounslow Town
1941-1942 Queens Park Rangers
1945 Southall FC
1945-1946 FC Hayes
1946-1948 Brentford FC 4 (0)
1948-1955 Arsenal FC 57 (0)
1955-1956 Watford FC 3 (0)
Gravesend & Northfleet
1 Only league games are given.

Arthur Shaw (born April 9, 1924 in Limehouse , England , † November 2, 2015 in Hermosa Beach , California , United States ) was an English football player . Applicable in many positions, he was best known for his time at Arsenal FC between 1948 and 1955 . There he won the English championship in 1953 and contributed significantly to the success with 25 appearances in the right wing runner position.

Athletic career

Shaw was born in east London and after learning to play soccer in school he joined the amateur club Hounslow Town in 1941 . This was followed by further engagements as an amateur with the Queens Park Rangers in 1941/42 and at the end of the war in 1945, first with FC Southall and then towards the end of the year with FC Hayes in the Athenian League . When he was on the road again as a guest player for Hounslow Town in the 1945/46 season - the league game that had been interrupted by the Second World War had not yet been resumed - Harry Curtis noticed , who was the coach of the then first division club Brentford . Shaw signed on May 9, 1946 with the club from the west of London a professional contract, after he had toured the Netherlands shortly before on Easter 1946 with an English amateur selection. He made his debut for the Bees in November 1946 against the Bolton Wanderers , but things didn't turn out to be desired. Shaw only came to three more league appearances in the following year and a half and in the meantime Brentford was relegated to the second division after the end of the 1946/47 season .

On April 12, 1948 he moved back to the top division for Arsenal , who was coached by Tom Whittaker . More than a year later, Shaw made his debut on August 31, 1949 in the first division game against Chelsea (2: 3), but mainly he came in the reserve team to train. This was mainly due to the fact that Alex Forbes, a competitor who played consistently well, was “set” on the right wing position . Shaw was still very popular and was considered a "joker" in the Arsenal team. Although this was also at the expense of team leadership, they were accepted as motivating. In the 1952/53 championship season he played himself more in the foreground and when he reached his sporting climax, he completed 25 league games in half position. He then moved back to the "second row" and played only three more championship games, including the last on the occasion of the opening of the 1954/55 season against Newcastle United (1: 3). He had played a total of 61 competitive games for Arsenal and was without a goal. He could not make a contribution to the success in the FA Cup 1949/50 and even two years later in the final defeat against Newcastle United (0: 1), Alex Forbes was preferred to him as often. In the Football Combination , which then served as the reserve league for the professional clubs, he scored ten goals in 125 games by the end of the 1954/55 season.

In June 1956 Shaw moved briefly to the third-rate Third Division South for Watford FC . He then continued his career outside of professional football in the Southern League at Gravesend & Northfleet . He won with Lionel Smith - former teammate at Arsenal - coached club in the 1957/58 season, the Southern League championship. After the end of his football career, he lived in Hounslow for several years before moving to America to live with his daughter. In his adopted home there, he died at the age of 91 on November 2, 2015 in Hermosa Beach , California . In his honor, a flag was erected on the Ken Friar Bridge near the stop at the Arsenal Stadium , as a tribute to his longtime friend from Arsenal official Ken Friar .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur Shaw (11v11.com)
  2. ↑ Arthur Shaw - the Arsenal Obituary 2015 (The Arsenal History)
personal data
SURNAME Shaw, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Limehouse , England
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 2015
Place of death Hermosa Beach , California , United States