Charlie Buchan

Charlie Buchan
Personnel
Surname	Charles Murray Buchan
birthday	September 22, 1891
place of birth	Plumstead , London ,  England
date of death	June 25, 1960
Place of death	Monte Carlo ,  Monaco
position	Center Forward
Juniors
Years	station
	Woolwich Polytechnic
	Pulmstead St Nicholas
	Plumstead
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1909-1910	Woolwich Arsenal	0 00(0)
1910	Northfleet FC
1910-1911	Leyton FC
1911-1925	Sunderland AFC	379 (209)
1925-1928	Arsenal FC	102 0(49)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1913-1923	England	6 00(4)
1 Only league games are given.

Charles Murray "Charlie" Buchan (born September 22, 1891 in Plumstead , London , † June 25, 1960 in Monte Carlo ) was an English football player and journalist .

Athletic career

Buchan first played as an amateur at his hometown club Woolwich Arsenal , which he had joined in December 1909. Although he performed well in the local reserve team, there was a dispute with coach George Morrell over financial matters, which led to Buchan refusing to sign a planned professional contract. Instead, he was hired by Leyton FC (not to be confused with today's Leyton Orient ) before being discovered there by Sunderland AFC , to which Buchan finally moved in March 1911 .

The tall and tech-savvy center forward quickly became a legend at Wearside and won the English championship with his new club in the 1912/13 season. He narrowly missed the FA Cup - and thus the possible double - with a 0-1 defeat in the final against Aston Villa . Sections of the professional world described him as the best player in the country, which was also based on the fact that between 1913 and 1924 he was always the club's top scorer for seven consecutive seasons (interrupted only by the First World War when there was no official game operation) . With 209 goals, he still has the record for the most goals by a player at Sunderland AFC. For the English national team he made his debut against Ireland in 1913 , but came due to the interruption of the war on only six missions for his country, in which he scored four goals.

At the advanced age of almost 34, Buchan rejoined Arsenal FC - as the club was now called - in 1925. Arsenal manager Herbert Chapman paid £ 2,000 for the signing plus a £ 100 bonus for each goal scored. Since Buchan got 20 hits straight away, the fee doubled. From then on, Buchan's influence in tactical questions turned out to be at least as important when he and Chapman invented the new World Cup system , which brought about an elementary realignment of team tactics as a result of the changed offside rule . Buchan led the club to the first cup final in its history in 1927, but lost again when Cardiff City defeated the Gunners 1-0 due to a serious goalkeeping error by Dan Lewis . After the end of the 1927/28 season, in which Buchan scored 16 goals again despite the old age of 36, he ended his career. For Arsenal, he had scored 56 goals in 120 games, which added up to 257 goals in his entire career. This makes him the sixth best goalscorer of all time within the Football League , which is all the more important given the long break in the war.

Buchan as a journalist

After his resignation Buchan worked as a journalist in the soccer field, worked there for the Daily News and the News Chronicle and developed one of the first manuals for training work in soccer. He also worked as a commentator for the BBC radio station . In 1947 he was one of the founding members of the football journalists 'association Football Writers' Association (FWA) and from 1949 until his death he published his own football magazine, "Charles Buchan's Football Monthly". He died at the age of 68 while on vacation in Monte Carlo in 1960 .

successes

• English master: 1913

literature

• Joyce, Michael: Football League Players' Records. 1888 to 1939. 4Edge, 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 41 .

Web links

• Online archive for Charles Buchan's Football Monthly magazine (dating back to 1951, as PDF documents)
• Buchan biography on Football Monthly tribute page