Eric Westwood

Eric Westwood
Personnel
birthday	September 25, 1917
place of birth	Manchester ,  UK
date of death	2001
position	defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1938-1953	Manchester City	248 (3)
1944	Chelsea FC	? (?)
1953-1955	Altrincham FC	44 (10)
1 Only league games are given.

Eric Westwood (born September 25, 1917 in Manchester , † 2001 ) was an English football player who played primarily as a left defender. He was one of the few players who played for both Manchester United and Manchester City in their careers .

Career

Westwood began his career in the Manchester United youth teams. In 1937 he moved to Manchester City. From the 1938/39 season he was part of the first team and played 30 games. During World War II he was drafted and only played 23 games for City. He served in Normandy , among other places . However, he played as a guest for Chelsea, with whom he even won the War Cup Final in 1944.

After the war, he continued his career at Manchester City, where he won the championship in the Football League Second Division in 1947 . He also played twice for England's B national team. Westwood only missed three games for City in three seasons. When Manchester signed the German paratrooper Bert Trautmann as a goalkeeper after the war, with great public protest , Westwood supported Trautmann and greeted him with the words: There is no war in this cabin .

At the end of the 1952/53 season, at the age of 35, he left City on a free transfer and switched to FC Altrincham for two seasons , which at that time did not play in the English professional league.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Catrine Clay: Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legend , Verlag Yellow Jersey (2011), ISBN 0-224-08289-2 , p. 275.
2. ↑ Eric Westwood, at citytidie.com. Retrieved December 28, 2013 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official website of FC Altrincham. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 16, 2011 ; Retrieved December 28, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.