Bill Healey

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Bill Healey
Personnel
Surname William Richard Ernest Healey
birthday May 22, 1926
place of birth Liverpool ,  England
date of death November 2018
Place of death Middlesbrough ,  England
position Outrunner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Chorley FC
1949-1952 Arsenal FC 0 (0)
1952-1955 Fulham FC 1 (0)
1955-1956 Hartlepools United 6 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

William Richard Ernest "Bill" Healey (born May 22, 1926 in Liverpool , † November 2018 in Middlesbrough ) was an English football player .

Career

Healey came to his school days in Liverpool through the in the Lancashire Combination gambling FC Chorley , who easily 1,955 annually per telegram wished good luck for the upcoming season, 1949 for the capital club Arsenal . There he did not get beyond missions in the reserve team and was thrown back by a broken leg. In October 1952, Barnsley FC expressed an interest in signing, but Healey decided not to move. Instead, he joined Arsenal's city rivals Fulham FC in December 1952 . Healey and a "moderate transfer fee" were transferred in exchange for Bill Dodgin junior , whose father Bill Dodgin senior was a coach at Fulham, which ensured that the supporters of Dodgin junior's cadre felt nepotism and there were corresponding expressions of resentment.

Already on December 20, 1952 Healey made his debut as a replacement for Reg Lowe in a 1-1 draw at Bury for Fulham in the Football League Second Division at the side of Joe Bacuzzi as a right defender. Although the press then praised him for an "outstanding first appearance" and he was also called up in the reserve team as an outside runner and middle runner , Healey's only assignment for Fulham's first team. In March 1954, the "defensive all-rounder" was put on the transfer list, but was still on the transfer list in May 1955.

In August 1955 he moved to the Third Division North on a free transfer to the north-east England club Hartlepools United . At Hartlepools too, Healey was only used sporadically in the first team, until October 1955 he played six games on the outside runner positions, but subsequently the long-time regulars Frank Stamper and Jackie Newton were given preference again. In April 1956 he was praised by the press after a reserve game for "having done well given his lack of match practice and with Wilkinson a strong back team" to have formed. At the end of the season he ended his high-class football career. In early 1957, the local newspaper Northern Daily Mail reported on his wedding, until at least 1967 he should have worked as a coach in local football in Middlesbrough .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bill Healey in the database of barryhugmansfootballers.com (English). Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ↑ Sporting CHATTER . In: The People , August 14, 1955, p. 11.  (paid link)
  3. ↑ a b c d Alex White: The Men Who Made Fulham Football Club . Tempus Publishing Ltd, Stroud 2002, ISBN 978-0-7524-2423-1 , pp. 213 f .
  4. ^ Colin Foster: A Century Of Poolies: The Who's Who Of Hartlepool United, 1908-2008 . 2008, p. 101 .
  5. ↑ Barnsley sign Arsenal player: hope to get another . In: Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer , October 25, 1952, p. 7.  (paid link)
  6. ↑ BLUES MAY MEET NEW BACK PAIR . In: Birmingham Daily Gazette , October 30, 1952, p. 6.  (paid link)
  7. ^ Hull City await Football League decision on Hansen . In: Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer , December 5, 1952, p. 6.  (paid link)
  8. ^ Young Dodgin moves to Arsenal . In: Daily Mirror , December 5, 1952, p. 15.  (link with costs)
  9. ^ Young Dodgin moves to Arsenal . In: Daily Mirror , December 5, 1952, p. 15.  (link with costs)
  10. ↑ Fulham robbed of victory in last minutes . In: West London Observer , December 26, 1952, p. 2.  (link with costs)
  11. ↑ WHISPERS .. . In: The People , March 21, 1954, p. 8.  (paid link)
  12. ↑ Sporting chatter . In: The People , May 1, 1955, p. 10.  (link subject to charge)
  13. ↑ cf. Malcolm Errington: Hartlepool United - The Complete Record . Derby 2012, ISBN 978-1-78091-030-7 , pp. 378 f .
  14. ↑ 5 - AND RESERVES MIGHT HAVE HAD MORE . In: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail , April 16, 1956, p. 9.  (paid link)
  15. ↑ (wedding photo) . In: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail , January 14, 1957, p. 4.  (paid link)
personal data
SURNAME Healey, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Healey, William Richard Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool
DATE OF DEATH November 2018
Place of death Middlesbrough