Don Woan

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Don Woan
Personnel
Surname Donald Woan
birthday November 7, 1927
place of birth Bootle ,  England
date of death April 24, 2020
Place of death Yeovil ,  England
position Winger
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1945-1950 Bootle Athletic
1950-1951 Liverpool FC 2 (0)
1951-1952 Leyton Orient 25 (5)
1952-1954 Bradford City 21 (4)
1954-1955 Tranmere Rovers 27 (2)
1955-1956 Yeovil Town (1)
1956-1957 Trowbridge Town
1957-1958 FC Street
1 Only league games are given.

Donald "Don" Woan (born November 7, 1927 in Bootle , † April 24, 2020 in Yeovil ) was an English football player .

Career

Woan played for the amateur club Bootle Athletic in the Lancashire Combination from 1945 before he was recommended by his teammate Alex Stevenson , a former Irish international and long-time Everton player , Liverpool FC . Liverpool coach George Kay was the signing of Woans in October 1950 worth a £ 1000 transfer to bring the winger to the first division . At Liverpool Woan was regularly used for the reserve team in the Central League (33 games / 3 goals), in the first team he brought it to two competitive appearances in the first division season 1950/51 . On January 13, 1951, he replaced in a 2-1 away win against Derby County on right winger Jimmy Payne and kept his place on the team for the Merseyside Derby on the following day. The 2-0 home defeat against Everton was his last appearance.

In November 1951 he was transferred to London to Leyton Orient , in return Brian Jackson moved to Liverpool, and Leyton received a payment of £ 6,500. For the club playing in Third Division South , he scored both goals on his home debut in a 2-0 win over Port Vale and was also instrumental in Leyton's successful Cup participation that season. After victories over the second division FC Everton and Birmingham City he was with the team in the second round of the FA Cup in 1951/52 , in which one in front of the record crowd of 30,000 spectators at Brisbane Road against Arsenal FC 0: lost third Woan had formed the right attacking side with Denis Pacey during the cup games , while Tommy Brown and Paddy Blatchford ran up on the left , the center forward position was initially occupied by Billy Rees and later by Tommy Harris .

In November 1952 he moved back to the northern part of England after 25 league appearances (5 goals), Bradford City paid £ 1,500 for his services. He made his debut the day after his commitment in the Third Division North against Darlington FC and came to 15 league and 3 cup appearances under coach Ivor Powell by February 1953 , before his place in the after a 1: 5 loss to AFC Barrow Team permanently lost to Tommy McCulloch . Up to his departure a year later, there were only six competitive appearances for Bradford, in February 1954 he was therefore transferred in exchange for Tommy Mycock to league rivals Tranmere Rovers and was thus back in his home country Merseyside . At Tranmere he was the left winger in the starting line-up for the rest of the season and helped with two goals in 17 missions that the club improved from 22nd place in the table to 14th place in the final standings. Also at the beginning of the following season 1954/55 Woan belonged to the regular formation. After only one win from the first ten games of the season, he lost his place at the end of September 1954 and was then no longer able to play. The Liverpool Echo reported in early October that Woan was “out of shape” and even the absence of two competitors ( Kenny McDevitt , injured; Ray Davies , Army) did not bring him back to the team.

From the summer of 1955 he continued his career at Yeovil Town in the Southern League , for which he came to nine competitive appearances (a league goal) in the 1955/56 season, his contract was not renewed at the end of the season. His career found its conclusion from June 1956 in the Western League , first at Trowbridge Town and then at FC Street .

After the end of his career, he was active in Yeovil's local and youth football team as a coach and official. Woan last lived in a nursing home in Yeovil , in August 2019 he received a stadium tour in Huish Park , home of Yeovil Town since 1990. He died at the age of 92 in April 2020, leaving behind two children. His younger brother Alan and his son Ian were also professional footballers.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Don Woan in the database of barryhugmansfootballers.com (English). Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c Terry Frost: Bradford City AFC Who's Who - Part 2: Football League Players 1946 to 1980 . SoccerData, Nottingham 2019, ISBN 978-1-911376-14-9 , pp. 201 f .
  3. ↑ Woan's Beginning . In: Liverpool Echo , February 27, 1954, p. 7.  (link with costs)
  4. ^ Arnie Baldursson, Gudmundur Magnusson: Liverpool Encyclopedia . De Coubertin Books, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-909245-08-2 , pp. 637 .
  5. ^ Neilson N. Kaufman: The Men Who Made Leyton Orient Football Club . Tempus Publishing Ltd., Stroud 2002, ISBN 0-7524-2412-2 , pp. 10 .
  6. ^ Neilson N. Kaufman and Alan E. Ravenhill: Leyton Orient: The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 2006, ISBN 1-85983-480-9 , pp. 388 f .
  7. ↑ cf. Terry Frost: Bradford City - A Complete Record 1903–1988 . Breedon Books, Derby 1988, ISBN 0-907969-38-0 , pp. 246 f .
  8. ↑ 'We can't afford loan' say Orient . In: Daily Mirror , February 24, 1954, p. 15.  (paid link)
  9. ↑ cf. Gilbert Upton, Steve Wilson, Peter Bishop: Tranmere Rovers - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 2009, ISBN 978-1-85983-711-5 , pp. 328 f .
  10. ↑ Nearer Home . In: Liverpool Echo , October 2, 1954, p. 6.  (link subject to charge)
  11. ↑ Kerry Miller: HENDFORD TO HUISH PARK: 110 YEARS OF YEOVIL TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB . Yeovil Town FC, Yeovil 2005, p. 141 .
  12. ↑ DON WOAN SIGNS FOR TROWBRIDGE . In: Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser , June 23, 1956, p. 12.  (paid link)
  13. ↑ Gordon Spiring is Street FC's team manager . In: Cheddar Valley Gazette , November 1, 1957, p. 5.  (paid link)
  14. ↑ WESTERN LEAGUE DIVISION example . In: Cheddar Valley Gazette , January 10, 1958, p. 8.  (paid link)
  15. ^ Farmer loses an appeal . In: Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser , April 21, 1962, p. 10.  (link subject to charge)
  16. ↑ facebook.com: Barchester Healthcare: Donald Woan, a resident of West Abbey Care Home in Yeovil revisited Yeovil Town FC (August 6, 2019) , accessed May 3, 2020
  17. ↑ funeral-notices.co.uk: Announcing the passing of Donald WOAN (April 28, 2020) , accessed May 3, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Woan, Don
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woan, Donald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Bootle
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2020
Place of death Yeovil