Colin Booth
| Colin Booth | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | December 30, 1934 | |
| place of birth | Middleton , England | |
| size | 175 cm | |
| position | Half-striker | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1950-1959 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 78 (26) |
| 1959-1962 | Nottingham Forest | 87 (39) |
| 1962-1964 | Doncaster Rovers | 88 (57) |
| 1964-1965 | Oxford United | 48 (23) |
| Cambridge United | (3) | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1956 | England U-23 | 1 (0) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Colin Booth (born December 30, 1934 in Middleton ) is a retired English football player . As a half-forward, he won two English championships in a row with Wolverhampton Wanderers in the seasons 1957/58 and 1958/59 and, despite high-profile competition from Peter Broadbent , Jimmy Murray , Dennis Wilshaw and Bobby Mason , completed thirteen league games each.
Athletic career
Booth grew up in Manchester and was already successful in school sports. He led the Manchester school selection into a final one year in which he had to beat Swansea with Cliff Jones as team captain after a replay. As manager of Manchester United, Matt Busby toyed with the idea of bringing all the talent from Booth's side to his club. However, he did not implement this project and Booth also sought his luck outside of his home with the Wolverhampton Wanderers - he followed his father's advice, who recommended him to leave his ancestral home. With the "Wolves" Booth played in the early 1950s, first in the Wolverhampton Amateur League (often alongside Norman Deeley ) and later in the Worcestershire Combination . He made his debut in the closing stages of the 1954/55 season against Aston Villa (2: 4) in the first team, which at that time was still the reigning English champions and ultimately won the runner- up behind the new titleholder Chelsea FC .
In the following years he was often in the shadow of his opponents in the offensive field, from Peter Broadbent, Roy Swinbourne, Jimmy Mullen to Dennis Wilshaw to Bobby Mason and Norman Deeley. He was also the target of criticism from his coach Stan Cullis , who was known as a "tough dog" and openly reprimanded him after a 9-1 away win in 1955 against Cardiff City after Booth failed to score. Regardless of this, he was one of the best English strikers and in 1956 he even made his only international appearance for the English U-23 selection against France. When the Wolves again won the English championship in the 1957/58 season , Booth contributed two goals in thirteen games (five in a row at the beginning of the season and four at the end) and although he beat the 4-0 on the penultimate game day Last year's champions Manchester United stood on the pitch, the joy of success (after the Munich plane disaster ) was limited. Larger was his contribution in the following season 1958/59 when he defended the title with Wolverhampton . Here he met seven times in thirteen league games, including a hat trick on December 27, 1958 in a 7-0 win against Portsmouth FC . After three more missions at the beginning of the 1959/60 season, he received clearance from Cullis to change clubs. The interested parties ranged all from the first division of Sheffield Wednesday via Everton to Nottingham Forest and Birmingham City and although he himself favored Birmingham, the parties agreed in October 1959 under Stullis' leadership on Nottingham.
Nottingham had recently won the FA Cup and Booth developed there in a good two and a half years to become a regular in the center forward position. However, the club's successes were not comparable to those from his time in Wolverhampton and after a close relegation in 1960 as third from bottom, he was also in the lower half of the table in the two following years. The highlight of this time was for Nottingham's participation in the trade fair cup in the 1961/62 season , although Nottingham failed there in the first round at Valencia CF. After a total of 39 goals in 87 first division games, Booth moved to fourth division Doncaster Rovers in August 1962 . In July 1964 he moved within the Fourth Division for a transfer fee of £ 7,500 on to Oxford United and rose with the club as fourth in the third division, with 23 goals this season Booth had contributed significantly. After a cruciate ligament rupture in preparation for the 1965/66 season, Booth had to pause for a year and a half and following medical advice, he let his career outside of professional football end at clubs like Cambridge United .
After the end of his football career, he worked in a hospital in Oxford and later in Stafford.
title
- English Championship (2): 1958 , 1959
Web links
- Colin Booth in the database of weltfussball.de
- Statistical data from the Post War English & Scottish Football League AZ Player's Database
- Colin Booth in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database
Individual evidence
- ^ "England - U-23 International Results - Details" (RSSSF)
- ^ Martin Brodetsky: The Who's Who of Oxford United . The Derby Books Publishing, Derby 2011, ISBN 978-1-85983-990-4 , pp. 40 .
- ^ "In-And-Out Booth Still A Major Player, Reflections of Molineux Double Title Winner" (Wolves Heroes)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Booth, Colin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Middleton |