Eric Sweeney
| Eric Sweeney | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Eric Edwin Sweeney | |
| birthday | October 3, 1905 | |
| place of birth | Rock Ferry , England | |
| date of death | October 1968 | |
| position | Half-striker | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| until 1925 | Flint Town | |
| 1925-1930 | Manchester United | 27 (6) |
| 1930-1931 | Charlton Athletic | 9 (4) |
| 1931-1932 | Crewe Alexandra | 27 (13) |
| 1932-1933 | Carlisle United | 29 (3) |
| 1933-1934 | FC Kreuzlingen | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Eric Edwin Sweeney (born October 3, 1905 in Rock Ferry , Birkenhead , † October 1968 ) was an English football player . The half- forward played a total of 92 league games for four different clubs during his eight-year professional career in the football league, scoring 26 goals.
Career
Sweeney played on an amateur basis at the Welsh club Flint Town , with whom he lost the final of the Welsh Cup on April 29, 1925 against the professionals of the AFC Wrexham with 1: 3. The day before he had registered as an amateur with the northern English first division club Manchester United and signed a professional contract there a month later. Sweeney stayed with Manchester for five years, but mostly only made occasional appearances as a substitute player in the half-striker positions. Only in the 1926/27 season he came to a double-digit number of league games.
After a total of 27 First Division appearances and five appearances in the FA Cup , Sweeney moved in June 1930 to the Second Division for the East London club Charlton Athletic . There he had to be content with the role of substitute player in the position of the left half-forward behind the exceptional Welsh player Dai Astley and came in the course of the 1930/31 season to four goalscoring successes in a total of nine missions. After the departure of Astley in June 1931, the position appeared to be vacant for Sweeney, but this also left the club two months later and moved to the Third Division North to Crewe Alexandra for a transfer of £ 50 . There he was used for the first time in more than half of the season's games and helped the club to sixth place with his 13 goals this season. For the following season he signed on with league rivals Carlisle United , who had to sell his successful storm series for financial reasons, especially center forward Jimmy McConnell , winger Sammy Armes and Bill Watson and half-forwards Arthur Sharp and Davie Hutchison . The newly formed attack line provided only 51 goals this season and thus the fewest of all 88 Football League teams, the 19th place in the final classification at least prevented the re-election for the further league membership. Sweeney was not signed beyond the end of the season and was hired by the Swiss second division club FC Kreuzlingen . There he won the second division championship under the English player-coach Norman Smith , but Kreuzlingen waived the right to promotion and Sweeney left the club at the end of the season.
literature
- Colin Cameron: The Valiant 500 . Colin Cameron, Sidcup 1991, ISBN 978-0-9517729-0-4 , pp. 308 .
- Michael Joyce: Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . 2nd revised edition. Soccerdata, Nottingham 2004, ISBN 1-899468-67-6 , pp. 253 .
- Garth Dykes: The United Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1994, ISBN 0-9514862-6-8 , pp. 367 .
- Paul Harrison: Carlisle United - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 2008, ISBN 978-1-85983-640-8 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Grenzstadtkurier , January 2012 / 6th edition, p. 30
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sweeney, Eric |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sweeney, Eric Edwin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rock Ferry |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1968 |