Frank Airey

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Frank Airey
Personnel
birthday October 3, 1887
place of birth Gainsborough ,  England
date of death 1948
position goal
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1905 Trinity Institute
1905-1906 Gainsborough Trinity 2 (0)
1906-1907 Newark FC
1907–? Gainsborough Trinity 0 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Frank Airey (born October 3, 1887 in Gainsborough , † 1948 ) was an English football player .

Career

The goalkeeper joined Gainsborough Trinity in 1905 from the local Trinity Institute club , which were part of the Football League Second Division . After the club failed to win the first seven games of the 1905/06 season , Airey replaced the goalkeeper Jim Bagshaw in October 1905 for the league games against Hull City (final score 0-2) and Lincoln City (final score 2-3) . Then he had to be content for the rest of the season with appearances in the reserve team in the Midland League , which finished 16th in the table among 18 teams at the end of the season.

In the summer of 1906 he joined the club Newark FC, also playing in the Midland League . At Newark he was regularly in goal, the defensive line mostly formed by James Kirk and William McMillan . In November 1906, the Sheffield Daily Telegraph wrote him, despite a 10-0 defeat by Manchester United reserves, "a really outstanding goalkeeping game" which "was undoubtedly the specialty of the game." In late December 1906, he was late for a game at Rotherham Town and only came in during the first half, his team started the game with nine players. The press also found unanimous words of praise in a 2-1 defeat by the Lincoln City reserves in April 1907. For example, the Lincolnshire Chronicle noted : "Airey's goalkeeping game for Newark aroused admiration and if it hadn't been for it, the final score would have been a high one," and the Lincolnshire Echo highlighted its "tenacity" and "praiseworthy saves". At the end of the season, the team was in seventh place in the table out of 20 teams.

After a season he returned to Gainsborough Trinity as a substitute goalkeeper behind Bagshaw in the summer of 1907. Further missions in the Football League did not follow, until the end of 1907 his name can still be found regularly in lists of the reserve team.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on March 2, 2020
  2. ↑ GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY FC . In: Stamford Mercury , August 25, 1905, p. 6.  (paid link)
  3. ↑ SHOTS AT GOAL . In: Lincolnshire Echo , April 8, 1905, p. 3.  (paid link)
  4. ↑ FOOTBALL NOTES. . In: Lincolnshire Echo , October 16, 1905, p. 4.  (paid link)
  5. ↑ GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY RESERVE v. ROTHERHAM TOWN. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , September 5, 1905, p. 12.  (paid link)
  6. ↑ WORKSOP v. GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY RESERVE. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , April 14, 1906, p. 11.  (paid link)
  7. ↑ NEWARK FOOTBALL CLUB. ANNUAL MEETING. . In: Nottingham Evening Post , June 15, 1906, p. 6.  (paid link)
  8. ↑ United Reserve Score Ten Goals. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , November 19, 1906, p. 4.  (paid link)
  9. ↑ ROTHERHAM TOWN v. NEWARK. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , December 28, 1906, p. 10.  (paid link)
  10. ↑ NOTES AND COMMENTS. . In: Lincolnshire Chronicle , April 9, 1907, p. 3.  (paid link)
  11. ↑ LINCOLN CITY RESERVE. v. NEWARK. . In: Lincolnshire Echo , April 6, 1907, p. 3.  (paid link)
  12. ↑ GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , Aug 28, 1907, p. 9.  (paid link)
  13. ↑ BARNSLEY RES. V. GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY RES. . In: Yorkshire Evening Post , November 23, 1907, p. 7.  (paid link)
  14. ↑ GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY RESERVE v. ROTHERHAM COUNTY. . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , December 26, 1907, p. 10.  (paid link)
personal data
SURNAME Airey, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Gainsborough
DATE OF DEATH 1948