Fred Spiksley

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Fred Spiksley
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Personnel
Surname Frederick Spiksley
birthday January 25, 1870
place of birth Gainsborough ,  England
date of death July 28, 1948
Place of death Racecourse at Goodwood House ,
Chichester , West Sussex ,  England
position Outrunner , storm
Juniors
Years station
1883 – c.1886 Holy Trinity School, Gainsborough
c. 1884 Eclipse
1887 Gainsborough Jubilee Swifts
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1886 Gainsborough Working
Men's Club & Institute 1 00(0)
1887-1891 Gainsborough Trinity 126 (131)
1891-1903 Sheffield Wednesday 293 (100)
1904 Glossop North End 4 00(0)
1905 Leeds City 7 00(0)
1905-1906 Southern United
1906 Watford FC 11 00(5)
1907 Corinthian FC 1 00(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1893-1898 England 7 00(7)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1911 AIK Stockholm
1911 Sweden
1913 TSV 1860 Munich
1913-1914 1. FC Nuremberg
1921-1922 Reforma Athletic Club
1923-1924 Real Club España
1927 1. FC Nuremberg
1928 Lausanne Sports
1933-1936 King Edward VII School, Sheffield
1 Only league games are given.

Frederick "Fred" Spiksley (born January 25, 1870 in Gainsborough , † July 28, 1948 at the racecourse at Goodwood House , Chichester , West Sussex ) was an English football player and coach who worked as a striker and left winger for Sheffield Wednesday and England was in use. Spiksley also played for Gainsborough Trinity , Glossop North End , Leeds City , Watford FC and was the only professional footballer with the Corinthians in 1907. After he had finished his playing career in 1906, he worked as a coach and won national soccer championships in Sweden , Mexico and Germany with the teams he supervised . During the First World War he was imprisoned in a civilian internment camp in Ruhleben , Germany. He later worked as a bookmaker and died at Goodwood Racecourse in 1948 .

Career as a player

Early career

Spiksley began playing for the Gainsborough Jubilee Swifts as a teenager . In 1887 he reached the semi-finals of the Lincolnshire Junior Cup with this team and finished the competition as top scorer with 31 goals in six games.

On March 19, 1887, at the age of 17, he played his first game in the first team of Gainsborough Trinity in an encounter with Notts Jardines . Since he had provided his captain Billy Brown with a pass after a good run, Spiksley was involved in the team's only goal, but the game was lost for Trinity 3-1. During his first season with Trinity, he scored 31 goals in 29 games and was the team's second-best goalscorer after Jake Madden , who later played for the Scottish national soccer team and for Celtic Glasgow . In his first game in the FA Cup , he also contributed two hits to the 7-0 win over Boston Town , as well as in the final of the Gainsborough News Charity Cup. In his second season he scored 28 goals in 21 games and was, despite a broken leg in a game of the Gainsborough News Charity Cup against The Wednesday on his 19th birthday , the top scorer of his team in the 1888-1889 season. During the 1889/90 season Spiksley won two trophies with his Trinity team, the Lincolnshire FA Cup and the Gainsborough News Charity Cup . During the 1890/91 season he was part of the well-known Trinity team that won the Midland League title.

Sheffield Wednesday

In January 1891 he was shortly before signing a contract with Accrington FC , but asked for a period to consider the contract. During the trip to Accrington he made a stopover in Sheffield and was persuaded by the two board members John Holmes and Fred Thompson to sign with Sheffield Wednesday instead . As a result, he stayed for the next eleven seasons with Wednesday and scored 100 goals in 293 league appearances, plus another 14 goals in 28 FA Cup games of his club. In the Cup final in 1896 he scored both goals in a 2-1 win on Wednesdays over Wolverhampton Wanderers . In addition to the two goals, he was also considered a dominant team member with his good moves. With his club he also won the English Second Division in 1900 and the English First Division in 1903.

Spiksley's missions at Sheffield Wednesday:

season 1891/92 1892/93 1893/94 1894/95 1895/96 1896/97 1897/98 1898/99 1899/1900 1900/01 1901/02 1902/03 TOTAL
Calls: 3 31 33 33 35 28 32 30th 34 14th 27 34 324
Gates: 2 18th 16 10 13 10 17th 3 10 4th 5 8th 116

Southern United

In the 1905/06 season Spiksley moved to the team from Southern United in London, which played in the Southern League Division 2 .

Games for the English national team

Spiksley was part of the English national team seven times and scored seven goals. He was on the team when he won the British Home Championship in 1893 and 1898. In 1893 he scored three goals on his first appearance on the national team in a 6-0 win over the Welsh national football team . Other goalscorers of the day included Jack Reynolds and John Goodall . He scored another three goals in a 5-2 win over the Scottish national football team . He scored his seventh goal in the third game in a 2-2 draw in 1894 against the Irish national football team . His teammates on this mission included Steve Bloomer and Ernest Needham . On March 14, 1903 Spiksley met once in the 3-0 victory of the English Champions of the English League XI Sheffield Wednesday over the Scottish Champions of the Scottish League XI in Celtic Park .

Different sources give different numbers for the total number of goals scored by Spiksley for the national team. In his book 50 Years of Football 1895-1934, Sir Frederick Wall, the secretary of the English Football Association in 1893, counts Spiksley a hat trick in the encounter with Scotland. in his first international match, the last goal of the 6-0 victory over Wales was never officially assigned to a specific player in the match reports of most newspapers, including The Times and Athletic News , so the goal was probably incorrectly counted. Some newspapers, including the Guardian , counted it and attributed it to Spiksley. Spiksley himself has always stated that he scored a hat trick in his first appearance for the national team, as well as in his second game against Scotland.

Spiksley's appearances for the English national team:

Date: March 13, 1893 April 1, 1893 March 3, 1894 April 7, 1894 March 7, 1896 March 28, 1898 April 2, 1898
Opponent: Wales Scotland Ireland Scotland Ireland Wales Scotland
Result: 6-0 5: 2 2: 2 2: 2 2-0 3-0 3: 1

Career as a coach

Sweden

After completing his playing career in 1906 Spiksley hit successfully the coaching career. In 1911 he signed a contract with AIK Stockholm and led the club to win the Swedish championship, which was then held in cup mode . He was also briefly appointed coach of the Swedish national football team . However, his term of office was shortened as a result of a dispute between two rival factions within the Swedish Football Association . Spiksley was seen as a candidate for the Stockholm Group and his nomination was opposed by the Gothenburg Group. In 1912 the association made him a new offer, which he refused.

Internment in Germany

In 1913 Spiksley was in Germany, first with TSV 1860 Munich and then with 1. FC Nürnberg . During his tenure, the First World War broke out and Spiksley was interned with his son, Fred Junior, in a civilian camp in Ruhleben near Berlin. Between 4,000 and 5,500 internees were housed in the camp. A certain social life developed and football became a popular activity. Spiksley was one of several former professional soccer players in the camp. This also included England internationals Fred Pentland , Samuel Wolstenholme and Steve Bloomer , Scottish internationals John Cameron , German internationals Edwin Dutton and John Brearley , who had previously played for Everton and Tottenham Hotspur .

Cup and league competitions were organized and up to 1,000 spectators were present at the larger games. The teams chose names from well-known teams and on November 16, 1914 Spiksley played in a cup final between the teams of Oldham Athletic and Tottenham Hotspur . It is no longer possible to determine which of the two teams Spiksley competed for. The Oldham team was basically a selection of private students. It is therefore more likely that he played for Tottenham with Bloomer and Dutton. The game itself was directed by Wolstenholme. Spiksley was able to flee Ruhleben in the spring of 1915 and, after a short stay in England, embarked for the United States, where he worked in a munitions factory in Pittsburgh .

Coaching stations after the First World War

In 1918 Spiksley worked as a coach in Spain, in 1921 he first returned to the United States and then traveled on to Mexico . There he trained the clubs Reforma Athletic Club and Real Club España . Both clubs competed in the Primera Fuerza , a league held in Mexico City , the champions of which were also viewed as Mexican football champions. In 1924 Spiksley led Club España to win the Primera Fuerza title . He returned to England and worked as an assistant coach at Fulham FC between 1924 and 1926 . During his time at Fulham, the club successfully participated in the FA Cup and threw the Everton FC team , which had taken on Dixie Dean , out of the competition. He then returned to Germany for 1. FC Nürnberg , with whom he won the German soccer championship in 1927 .

In 1931, Spiksley was again invited by Fulham FC to Craven Cottage to shoot several training films with the two players Barrett and Oliver. A clip from a film has stood the test of time showing his brilliant football technique.

Between 1933 and 1936 Spiksley took over the post of coach for the school team of the King Edward VII School in Sheffield . During this period, the first team remained undefeated against other school teams. This achievement was recognized in a rather unusual way. The 'Ardath Tobacco Company' included the school team from 1935–1936 in this year's collection of pictures of well-known soccer teams that came with the cigarette packs, so that the team was named along with the best soccer teams of the time.

Works

There are various publications from Spiksley:

  • in 1907 his memoirs were published.
  • Letters to a Swedish journalist formed the basis of one of the first Swedish football textbooks.
  • In 1920 his autobiography was written and published in a newspaper series.
  • In 1928 he wrote a newspaper series in which he showed readers how to train the soccer game and how to play, each week dealing with a different game position or technique.

successes

player

Trainer

swell

  • Sir Frederick Wall: 50 Years of Football 1895-1934 , 208 pages, (first published in 1935, reprinted in 2005), Soccer Books Ltd, ISBN 1862231168 .

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Biographies

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Quiet life

Trainer

personal data
SURNAME Spiksley, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spiksley, Frederick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Gainsborough
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1948
Place of death Goodwood Racecourse at Goodwood House , Chichester , West Sussex