David Hirst

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David Hirst
Personnel
Surname David Eric Hirst
birthday 7th December 1967
place of birth Cudworth ( South Yorkshire ),  England
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1985-1986 Barnsley FC 28 00(9)
1986-1997 Sheffield Wednesday 296 (106)
1997-1999 Southampton FC 30 00(9)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1991-1992 England 3 00(1)
1 Only league games are given.

David Eric Hirst (born December 7, 1967 in Cudworth ( South Yorkshire )) is a former English football player .

Career

Sheffield Wednesday (1986-1997)

David Hirst started his playing career in the 1985/86 season with his home club Barnsley FC in the second-rate Second Division . With nine goals in twenty-eight league games, he managed a promising debut season that led him to the first division club Sheffield Wednesday on August 11, 1986 . With the team trained by Howard Wilkinson , Hirst (21 games / 6 goals) finished the Football League First Division in 1986/87 in thirteenth place in the table. In the 1989/90 season David Hirst (38 games / 14 goals) met double digits for the first time, but rose third from bottom with Sheffield in the second division. Things went much better for the club in 1990/91 when Wednesday won the English League Cup in 1990/91 by beating Manchester United 1-0 in the final in April 1991 and shortly afterwards was promoted to the first division again. David Hirst made a decisive contribution to this success with twenty-four league goals. Coach Ron Atkinson took over Aston Villa after this success , but his successor Trevor Francis also led Sheffield to third place in the First Division in 1991/92 . Hirst scored eighteen league goals and was fourth on the list of goalscorers with John Fashanu from Wimbledon FC and Brian McClair from Manchester United. The team had another very good season in 1992/93. After an early exit in the 1992/93 UEFA Cup , Sheffield reached the final of the 1992/93 League Cup on April 18, 1993 , but lost it 2-1 to Arsenal . Less than a month later, the team around Chris Woods , Chris Waddle , Viv Anderson and David Hirst contested the final of the FA Cup 1992/93 . The opponent in front of 79,347 spectators at Wembley was again Arsenal. David Hirst equalized Ian Wright's early lead in the 61st minute , forcing a replay. Sheffield lost the game, which took place five days later, 1: 2 nV and thus missed the title in both cup competitions. Hirst suffered a broken ankle during the season, which marked the beginning of his injury misery in the years to come. After two seasons with only a few appearances, he scored thirteen goals in thirty league games in the 1995/96 Premier League and finished the season with his team in fifteenth.

After over eleven years and one hundred and six league goals, David Hirst moved to Southampton FC on October 17, 1997 and scored nine goals in twenty-eight games in the 1997/98 Premier League . In 1998/99 his injury problems returned and he only played two league games towards the end of the season, which would be his last. During the 1999/2000 season, the 32-year-old prematurely ended his career on the advice of his doctors.

English national team (1991-1992)

On June 1, 1991, David Hirst made his debut at the age of 23 in the English national team in a 1-0 win over Australia. In his second international game a week later in New Zealand, Hirst, who was substituted at break, scored his first international goal in the 50th minute. He played his third and last international match on February 19, 1992 in a 2-0 home win over France. Hirst's rival in the storm Alan Shearer made a name for himself in this game and took the place in attack alongside Gary Lineker . Besides Lineker and Shearer nominated national coach Graham Taylor with Alan Smith and Nigel Clough two more players for the European Championship in 1992 and renounced David Hirst. Due to numerous injuries, Hirst did not find his way back to his old form and did not play another international match.

titles and achievements

  • League Cup Winner : 1991 (1-0 against Manchester United)
  • League cup finalist: 1993 (1: 2 against Arsenal)
  • FA Cup finalist: 1993 (1: 1 and 1: 2 afterwards against Arsenal FC)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ferguson's Black Wednesday (ESPN)
  2. ↑ Australia - England 0: 1 (Englandstats)
  3. ↑ New Zealand 0-2 England (Englandstats)
personal data
SURNAME Hirst, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirst, David Eric (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Cudworth , England