Eddie Stewart

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Eddie Stewart
Personnel
Surname Edward McDonald Stewart
birthday November 15, 1934
place of birth Dundee ,  Scotland
date of death November 11, 2015
Place of death Dundee ,  Scotland
position External rotor (left)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Ashdale amateurs
Osborne
1954-1959 Dundee United 69 (1)
1957 →  Norwich City  (loan) 13 (0)
1959 FC Arbroath 2 (0)
1959 St. Johnstone FC 1 (0)
1960 Nairn County
1 Only league games are given.

Edward McDonald "Eddie" Stewart (born November 15, 1934 in Dundee , † November 11, 2015 ibid) was a Scottish football player .

Career

Stewart played after graduating from Stobswell Secondary School for the Ashdale Amateurs and Osborne in Dundee junior football before he was the first engagement of Dundee United's new coach Reggie Smith in September 1954 . Previously, he had convinced as a test player on the first days of the second division season 1954/55 against FC Stenhousemuir and FC St. Johnstone . At Dundee, he established himself as a left wing runner , who was sometimes called up as a defender, and made English clubs aware of his performance.

In December 1955, his conscription to the military interrupted his career, while he was stationed with the Royal Army Service Corps in Aldershot , he joined the English third division club Norwich City on loan at the beginning of the 1957/58 season . There he met his former Dundee teammate Maurice Milne and played a total of 13 league appearances as a left wing runner for the club between August and October 1957, when the club moved from 15th place in the table to third place. With the end of his military service he returned to Dundee United, a transfer offer from Norwich coach Archie Macaulay in the amount of £ 5,000 was rejected by Dundee.

As a result, he succeeded under the coaches Tommy Gray and Andy McCall no longer to establish himself in Dundee's starting eleven and in February 1959 he was finally allowed a free transfer. He was then briefly active with second division rivals FC Arbroath before he played for some time as a test player in the reserve team of Leeds United - at the side of the later club idol Billy Bremner . After a second division for FC St. Johnstone at the beginning of the 1959/60 season and a short stay at Nairn County in 1960, his footballing career ended and Stewart earned his living from then on with the Dundee-based house construction company Bett Brothers .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ barryhugmansfootballers.com: Profile Eddie Stewart , accessed June 29, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c John Litster: Eddie Stewart Obituary . In: Scottish Football Historian . Winter 2015/16, No. 136 , 2015.
  3. ↑ REGGIE SMITH IS UNITED'S MANAGER . In: Dundee Courier , September 22, 1954, p. 6.  (paid link)
  4. ↑ a b United wants to miss Eddie . In: Dundee Courier , December 29, 1955, p. 6.  (link subject to charge)
  5. ^ United can expect offer for Johnny Coyle . In: Dundee Courier , December 3, 1955, p. 6.  (paid link)
  6. ↑ a b Mike Davage: Glorious Canaries - Past and Present 1902-1994 . Norwich City FC Ltd, Norfolk 1994, ISBN 0-9523857-0-8 , pp. 379 .
personal data
SURNAME Stewart, Eddie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stewart, Edward McDonald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Dundee
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2015
Place of death Dundee