George Bullock (soccer player)

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George Bullock
Personnel
Surname George Frederick Bullock
birthday January 2, 1916
place of birth Wolverhampton ,  England
date of death May 31, 1943
Place of death at Appleton ,  England
position Right winger
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1936 Oakengates Town
1936-1937 Stafford Rangers
1937-1939 Barnsley FC 68 (12)
1 Only league games are given.

George Frederick Bullock (born January 2, 1916 in Wolverhampton , † May 31, 1943 at Appleton ) was an English football player .

Career

Bullock played in the 1935/36 season at Oakengates Town in the Birmingham & District League at the side of his brother Sam , who had a brief unsuccessful interlude at Stockport County . In the summer, George Bullock, who had scored 15 goals for Oakengates, trained for a month at Birmingham FC and is said to have been offered a contract; from the end of September 1936 he then played for Oakengates' league rival Stafford Rangers , again at the side of his brother. In the months that followed, the right winger scored 21 goals , drawing attention to several Football League clubs . In April 1937 he was brought by Angus Seed to the second division Barnsley FC and made his competitive debut four days later in a 3-0 defeat against Burnley FC .

At the start of the following 1937/38 season, Bullock scored the 1-0 winning goal in the away game against Newcastle United , a few days later he also hit the 3-0 return success with a long-range shot. Regular player until early November, he injured his knee in a game for the Sheffield & Hallamshire County Cup against Rotherham United and was out for three months. Bullock returned to the team in February 1938, the team remained on the last eight game days without a win and slipped thereby still on a relegation place.

In the 1938/39 season , Bullock contributed ten goals in 39 missions to the sovereign championship in the Third Division North and the associated direct resurgence. He scored several spectacular goals, including the equalizer in the local derby against Doncaster Rovers , when he let four opponents get off in a single action and which was extolled by the correspondent of the Sheffield Independent as the "green oasis of football in a desert of dreariness". His goal to 2-0 against Chester FC (final score 3-0) at the end of January 1939, in which he dodged two opponents before he turned the ball with an untenable shot, caused long applause from the stands. After three games in the second division season 1939/40, the outbreak of World War II caused regular game operations to cease. In the war-related replacement competitions Bullock came in the following years for Barnsley to 54 missions (19 goals).

Bullock joined the Royal Navy and was stationed near Portsmouth , so he played 38 games (26 goals) as a guest player for Portsmouth FC from February 1942 to the end of the 1942/43 season. The highlight of his time at Portsmouth was the final of the London War Cup in 1942, the game in front of 72,000 spectators at London's Wembley Stadium was lost 2-0 to Brentford FC despite the clear superiority of Portsmouth . The match reports agree that Bullock was the best player of the game, so Bullock, who was praised as a “star striker”, “rained flanks”, was “tricky as a monkey”, and even if his “flanks were not always to the greatest advantage , offered at least 20 productive opportunities. ”Another notes:“ Bullock [...] was the wizard of the game, seemed like the one man who could save the game for Portsmouth. He's been the thorn in Brentford's half the whole time and his performance on the Pompey right wing [nickname Portsmouth] must have wowed everyone in the crowd. ”He also took a penalty, but was missed by Jimmy Guthrie . An obituary from 1943 also recalls his “great performance at Wembley”, which was “one of the special features of the game”.

At the end of May 1943, shortly after midnight, Bullock was on board a military truck that was carrying around 30 military personnel from the Navy after an evening of dancing. At Appleton , the vehicle came off the road and overturned, and Bullock was one of the six fatalities in the accident. In May 1944 a stadium newspaper was auctioned for the benefit of the "George Bullock Memorial Fund" , which had been signed by Bernard Montgomery , players from Portsmouth and Brentford and coach and President of Portsmouth. A charity game planned for August 1943 between Portsmouth and Aston Villa was, however, no longer played after a postponement. Evening events were organized for the benefit of his widow and three children in Portsmouth in November 1943 and in Gosport in October 1944 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b SIX NAVAL RATINGS KILLED . In: Liverpool Daily Post , June 2, 1943, p. 3.  (paid link)
  2. ↑ Life data according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on April 6, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Stafford's Trial . In: Staffordshire Sentinel , September 26, 1936, p. 9.  (link subject to charge)
  4. ↑ Oakengates T. . In: Birmingham Daily Gazette , August 24, 1935, p. 13.  (paid link)
  5. ↑ RANGERS 'PLAYER TRANSFERRED. . In: Staffordshire Advertiser , April 17, 1937, p. 6.  (link subject to charge)
  6. ↑ BARNSLEY. . In: Star Green 'un , April 17, 1937, p. 2.  (link subject to charge)
  7. ↑ A DEPUTY FOR BULLOCK. County Cup Game Blow to Barnsley . In: Leeds Mercury , November 10, 1937, p. 9.  (link subject to charge)
  8. ↑ PLAY TOO VIGOROUS IN THE OAKWELL DERBY . In: Sheffield Independent , October 17, 1938, p. 9.  (paid link)
  9. ↑ WEAKENED CHESTER NO MATCH FOR BARNSLEY . In: Sheffield Daily Telegraph , January 30, 1939, p. 10.  (paid link)
  10. ↑ Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939-45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X , pp. 272 .
  11. ↑ Borrowed Player Gets Hat Trick . In: Portsmouth Evening News , February 9, 1942, p. 4.  (paid link)
  12. ↑ Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939-45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X , pp. 390 .
  13. ^ Brentford Win London Cup at the Second Attempt . In: Middlesex Chronicle , June 6, 1942, p. 7.  (paid link)
  14. ↑ Missed Penalty Lost Portsmouth The Cup . In: Portsmouth Evening News , June 1, 1942, p. 6.  (paid link)
  15. ↑ FOOTBALL. BRENTFORD WIN WAR CUP FINAL . In: West London Observer , June 5, 1942, p. 2.  (link with costs)
  16. ↑ GEORGE BULLOCK KILLED . In: Portsmouth Evening News , June 3, 1943, p. 6.  (paid link)
  17. ↑ GEORGE BULLOCK FUND . In: Portsmouth Evening News , May 2, 1944, p. 6.  (paid link)
  18. ^ Charity Match With The Villa Postponed . In: Portsmouth Evening News , July 24, 1943, p. 6.  (paid link)
  19. ↑ cf. Bryan Sheppard: Aston Villa: Friendlies, Tours and Testimonials . Yore Publications, Harefield 2012, ISBN 978-0-9569848-7-6 , pp. 151 .
  20. ↑ GEORGE BULLOCK FUND . In: Portsmouth Evening News , November 10, 1943, p. 9.  (paid link)
  21. ↑ BULLOCK MEMORIAL FUND . In: Portsmouth Evening News , October 27, 1944, p. 6.  (paid link)
personal data
SURNAME Bullock, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bullock, George Frederick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolverhampton
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1943
Place of death at Appleton