Billy Lansdowne

Billy Lansdowne
Personnel
Surname	William lansdowne jr.
birthday	April 28, 1959
place of birth	Epping ,  England
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1978-1981	West Ham United	9 0(1)
1981-1983	Charlton Athletic	32 0(4)
1983	Gillingham FC	6 0(2)
1983-1988	Kalmar FF	122 (38)
1984	→  Leytonstone & Ilford  (loan)	0 0(0)
1984-1988	→  Dagenham FC  (loan)	27 0(5)
1 Only league games are given.

William "Billy" Lansdowne Jr. (Born April 28, 1959 in Epping , Essex ) is a retired English football player .

Career

Lansdowne began his career at West Ham United , where his father Bill Landsdowne played football. Although he managed a hat trick in the League Cup against Southend United in October 1979 , he was ultimately unable to prevail at the club. He then moved on to Charlton Athletic . In early 1983 he went to the Third Division for Gillingham FC after his contract with Charlton was dissolved.

Just a few months later, Lansdowne moved to Kalmar FF in the second-rate Division 2 . In his first season he scored 16 goals this season and thus helped his club to win the season as top scorer and, after the subsequent success against Djurgårdens IF, to return to the Allsvenskan . In the first division he formed the club's storm duo with Peter Karlsson , who was obliged by Åtvidabergs FF . In the first year, the two of them, like the entire team - scored 17 goals in 22 games - were rather harmless, in 1985 the two became the Allsvenskan's top scorer with ten goals each together with Sören Börjesson from Örgryte IS . Thus the team reached the championship finals, in which they failed after two defeats in the semifinals at the eventual champions Örgryte IS. In the following season, the club had to relegate as the table penultimate, but Lansdowne remained loyal to the club in the second division for a season and ended his career there in 1988.

In the season breaks of the Swedish league Lansdowne returned several times to England and played for the amateur club FC Dagenham , the highlight of his stays there was the move into the third round of the FA Cup 1984/85 .

After his career ended, Lansdowne worked as a television commentator for Swedish television. For TV 4 , for example, he commented on games in the Premier League in the program Tipslördag and the 1998 World Cup together with Peppe Eng . He was also a football expert at Viasat and commented on greyhound races for TV3 .

literature

• Roger Triggs: The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club . Tempus Publishing Ltd., Stroud 2001, ISBN 0-7524-2243-X , pp. 191 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "BILLY LANSDOWNE" - Statistics of professional games in England at newcastlefans.com (accessed on 27 November 2008)
2. ↑ "Hjälten från förr firar guld med champagne" - Article at fotbollsexpressen.se ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed November 27, 2008)  
3. ↑ "1985 vs 2005, Del 1" - article at svenskafans.com (accessed on November 27, 2008)