Charlie Ashcroft

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Charlie Ashcroft
Personnel
Surname Charles Thomas Ashcroft
birthday July 3, 1926
place of birth Chorley ,  England
date of death March 13, 2010
Place of death Preston ,  England
position goal
Juniors
Years station
Eccleston Juniors
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1943-1955 Liverpool FC 87 (0)
1955-1957 Ipswich Town 7 (0)
1957-1958 Coventry City 19 (0)
1958–1962 Chorley FC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1952 England B 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Charles Thomas "Charlie" Ashcroft (born July 3, 1926 in Chorley , † March 13, 2010 in Preston ) was an English football goalkeeper.

Career

Ashcroft came in December 1943 from the Eccleston Juniors to Liverpool and completed his first five appearances for the first team in the post-war season 1945/46, when the game in the Football League was not yet resumed. His league debut in the First Division was Ashcroft on September 7, 1946 in a 7-4 home win against Chelsea . His second appearance four days later, a 5-0 defeat at Manchester United , was his last competitive game for the Liverpool professional team until October 1950. With Cyril Sidlow as a regular goalkeeper, Liverpool finally won the first post-war championship , Ashcroft is usually not part of the championship team because he did not reach the ten missions required to receive a championship medal. Until the beginning of the 1950/51 season, Sidlow was the main keeper of the Reds , before he was first replaced by Russell Crossley . Ashcroft came on the last days of the 1950/51 season for use and played the following season 1951/52 mainly as a goalkeeper. During this time his only appearance in the English national B team fell, for which he was used in a 1-0 win over the Dutch B team in front of 60,000 spectators in the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium .

In early 1953 he lost his place in the gate again to Crossley and was only used sporadically for Liverpool FC in the following seasons. In the summer break of 1955, he moved to the first division competitor Ipswich Town , but was there behind Roy Bailey only substitute keeper and came in two seasons to seven missions. He spent his last season in the professional field in 1957/58 at the third division club Coventry City . As the successor to Reg Matthews , he started the season as a regular goalkeeper, but lost that place after he was awarded a free kick in a game against Newport County on the false assumption that he had been awarded a free kick at the feet of an opposing striker, who promptly scored a goal scored. In the following months, the 17-year-old Graham Spratt was first choice, only in February he returned to the team; the season ended for the club with relegation to the fourth division . After his professional career, Ashcroft worked at a state ammunition factory in Euxton and ended his amateur football career in his hometown at Chorley FC in the Lancashire Combination .

literature

  • Doug Lamming: Who's Who of Liverpool 1892–1989 . Breedon Books, Derby 1989, ISBN 0-907969-55-0 , pp. 14 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glenda Rollin & Jack Rollin (Eds.): Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2010–2011 . Headline Publishing Group, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-7553-6107-6 , pp. 1010 .
  2. ↑ Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939-45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X , pp. 357 .
  3. ↑ rsssf.com: England - International Results B-Team - Details
  4. ↑ ccfpa.co.uk: Gone But Not Forgotten
  5. ↑ lep.co.uk: The Big Interview - Charlie Ashcroft (Jan. 23, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Ashcroft, Charlie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ashcroft, Charles Thomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Chorley
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 2010
Place of death Preston