Derek Parkin

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Derek Parkin
Personnel
Surname Derek Parkin
birthday January 2, 1948
place of birth Newcastle-upon-Tyne ,  England
position Full-back
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1964-1968 Huddersfield Town 61 (1)
1968-1982 Wolverhampton Wanderers 501 (6)
1982-1983 Stoke City 40 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1969-1971 England U-23 5 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Derek Parkin (born January 2, 1948 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne ) is a retired English football player . The full-back and two-time league cup winner remains the most competitive player for the Wolverhampton Wanderers to date - both in terms of league matches and competitive games in general.

Athletic career

The mostly acting on the left wing Derek Parkin began his career first with the second division Huddersfield Town and was there in the season 1966/67 a regular player. Due to his technical and anticipatory strengths, which was accompanied by good positional play, he made a name for himself all the way up to the English upper class and finally moved to the Wolverhampton Wanderers in February 1968 for the comparatively high transfer fee of 80,000 pounds .

Parkin, who was jokingly called "Squeak" (English for "beep") because of his high-pitched voice, quickly developed into a fixture on the left defensive side of the "Wolves" and was already in 134 competitive games without interruption with his new club under coach Ronnie Allen in the starting XI. In his fourteen-year period, he completed at least 50 games for the "Wolves" in five seasons - in addition to his general record player status, this is also a record within the club. The first successes occurred at the beginning of the 1970s, when Parkin and his team won the Texaco Cup in 1971 and a year later was on the way to the final in the UEFA Cup , but was only available in the first three rounds. In addition, there were two victories in the league cup in 1974 and 1980 , which are the only titles of the club in this competition to this day, and in the middle of which fell the first division relegation in 1976 and the direct re-emergence as second division champions. Parkin, to whom a personal benefit game ("testimonial match") had already been dedicated in 1979 in recognition of his many years of service (at a time before player salaries "exploded" in professional football, a common means of providing a well-deserved player with a larger sum of money) ), left his long-term club in March 1982 and missed the end of the 1981/82 season there , which brought the Wolves another descent into the second division. After 609 competitive games - including 501 league games - Parkin joined Stoke City and "saved" himself through this change in the English House of Lords.

In the "Potters" he acted on the side of the future Wolves player Alan Dodd and with George Berry he was followed shortly thereafter by a former teammate from Wolverhampton. After 45 competitive games for Stoke City, Parkin resigned as an active footballer in May 1983. Appearances in the English senior team were always denied to him in his career and so his international matches were limited to five games for the England U-23 youngsters between 1969 and 1971, to which a few selection games for the English Football League had come. After his sports career, he started a "middle-class" career in the field of landscape architecture .

successes

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literature

  • Matthews, Tony: Wolverhampton Wanderers - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-85983-632-3 , pp. 146 .
personal data
SURNAME Parkin, Derek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle-upon-Tyne