George Heslop

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George Heslop
Personnel
Surname George Wilson Heslop
birthday July 1, 1940
place of birth Wallsend ,  England
date of death September 16, 2006
Place of death Lytham St Annes ,  England
position Defender (central)
Juniors
Years station
Dudley Welfare
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1959-1962 Newcastle United 27 (0)
1962-1965 Everton FC 10 (0)
1965-1972 Manchester City 162 (1)
1971-1972 →  Cape Town City FC  (loan)
1972-1973 Bury FC 37 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1977-1988 Northwich Victoria
1 Only league games are given.

George Wilson Heslop (born July 1, 1940 in Wallsend , † September 16, 2006 in Lytham St Annes ) was an English football player . The central defender had his most successful time after starting at Newcastle United and Everton from 1965 at Manchester City . There he won the English championship in 1968 and the League Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1970 .

Athletic career

Heslop's career as a professional footballer was initially very sluggish. After early years at his small home club Dudley Welfare , he was employed from February 1959 at Newcastle United , from where he moved to Everton FC in March 1962 . By mid-1965, however, he was only used in 33 league games. These included 27 encounters for Newcastle, which again included twelve second division games after the Magpies were relegated to the first division in 1961. With the "Toffees" he played again in the English elite class and was also in the squad of the championship team in 1963 , but his only assignment as a substitute for the English national player Brian Labone in the game on April 16, 1963 against Birmingham City (1-0) entitled not to receive an official medal.

Although Heslop had always been in Labone's shadow in the central defensive position at Everton, he had caught the eye of Malcolm Allison of Manchester City . Allison was an influential assistant with his head coach Joe Mercer in 1965 before the task of renewing the team of the now only second-rate club. In the season 1965/66 Heslop ran on September 11, 1965 against Chelsea (1: 3) again for Everton before he was hired for the transfer fee of 20,000 pounds with the "Citizens". There he made his debut just four days after the Chelsea game against Norwich City (3: 3) and with another 33 league appearances, he was instrumental in winning the second division championship and the associated first division promotion. With his high physical presence, he was then an important factor in ensuring that his team on the eleventh place in the final table in the 1966/67 season, first of the safe relegation and the following year succeeded in winning the English championship . In the championship season 1967/68 he missed only one of 42 league games and on March 27, 1968, after two and a half years at the club, he scored his first league goal for "City" with a header in the local derby against Manchester United, leading to a 2-1 lead (final score 3 :1).

At the beginning of the season 1968/69 he was captain in the 6-1 victory in the Charity Shield game against West Bromwich Albion , but from then on he lost his regular place to the young Tommy Booth . As a result, Heslop only played 69 competitive games for Manchester in a period of over four years and he had no part in the FA Cup victory in 1969 . Nevertheless, he was still regarded as a valuable member of the extended squad and in the two 1970s titles in the League and European Cup Winners' Cup , he was in the regular formations of both finals against West Bromwich Albion and Górnik Zabrze (each 2-1). During the Christmas season of 1971 he was drawn to Cape Town City FC in South Africa for an eight-month loan period .

After his return to England, Heslop let his active career with fourth division FC Bury end in the 1973/74 season . His last major involvement in football was in the 1977/78 season, coaching for the lower class Northwich Victoria . He later worked as a landlord, among other things, in a restaurant in the City Gates Hotel, which was closely related to Manchester City when it was founded as "Ardwick AFC" and which was closed in 1988. He then moved to Blackpool and worked there as a social worker until his retirement a year before his death. Heslop died in September 2006 at the age of 66.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Heslop in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ↑ "George Heslop dies, 66" (Manchester Evening News)
  3. ↑ "George Heslop: Manchester City FC" (Sporting Heroes)
personal data
SURNAME Heslop, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heslop, George Wilson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallsend , England
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 2006
Place of death Lytham St Annes , England