Jesse Pye

Jesse Pye
Personnel
Surname	Jesse Pye
birthday	December 22, 1919
place of birth	Treeton ,  England
date of death	19th February 1984
Place of death	Blackpool ,  England
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	FC Catliffe
	Treeton FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1938-1945	Sheffield United	0 00(0)
1945-1946	Notts County	0 00(0)
1946-1952	Wolverhampton Wanderers	188 0(90)
1952-1954	Luton Town	61 0(32)
1954-1957	Derby County	61 0(24)
1957-1967	Wisbech Town	242 (138)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	England B
1949	England	1 00(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1960-1967	Wisbech Town (player-coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Jesse Pye (born December 22, 1919 in Treeton , † February 19, 1984 in Blackpool ) was an English football player . The striker appeared in English professional football alongside Luton Town and Derby County for Wolverhampton Wanderers . With the "Wolves" he won the FA Cup in 1949 and scored two goals himself in the final.

Athletic career

Jesse Pye's professional career would begin in 1938 when he joined Sheffield United . However, the outbreak of World War II prevented the start of his career, as the Football League interrupted the game after the start of the fighting. Instead, he served in the British Army in North Africa and Italy; There he came to occasional football matches with the Royal Engineers - at the side of some prominent athletes who were also on the road as soldiers. After the war ended, he moved to Notts County in 1945 , but joined the Wolverhampton Wanderers for £ 12,000 before the end of the 1945/46 season before the Football League entered its first post-war season in 1946/47 .

Pye immediately attracted attention there and scored three times to 6-1 victory on his debut against Arsenal on August 31, 1946. At the end of the season he had 21 competitive goals and in the following season 1947/48 he was together with Johnny Hancocks with 16 goals each club's best scorer. The first title win followed in 1949 when he contributed two goals to the 3-1 win over Leicester City in the FA Cup final . He catapulted himself into the ranks of the best English strikers and completed his first international match for the English national football team against Ireland on September 21, 1949 . More than three years earlier, he had already stood on January 19, 1946 in his so-called "Victory International" against Belgium and won 2-0 (the English national team itself had not played a post-war international at that time). The game against the Irish selection, however, was lost 2-0 at Goodison Park and Pye's international debut was the only appearance in the senior team.

A long-running streak of injuries in the 1950-51 season missed Pye's career at the highest level. He missed around half of the league games and although he again developed into the best club scorer in the following season 1951/52 , the Wolves' management let him switch to the second division Luton Town for 5,000 pounds . He had scored a total of 95 goals in 209 competitive games for Wolverhampton Wanderers and is now 16th in the club's internal ranking of top scorers.

In the second-rate Second Division he experienced a new high phase with the "Hatters" and failed despite newly discovered accuracy in the 1952/53 season only just about promotion to the first division. After another season and a total of 32 goals in 61 league games, he surprised in October 1954 with his move to second division rivals Derby County . There he rose a year later to the third-class Third Division North and just missed direct resurgence in 1956 with second place.

Pye turned his back on professional football in 1957 and moved to Wisbech , where he hired himself out as an innkeeper at the "Mermaid Inn" and opened a candy store. At the same time he was still active in sports at the local amateur club Wisbech Town in the Midland League. There he led his club in November 1957 with his decisive goal against Colchester United for the first time in history in the second main round of the FA Cup. Until April 1967 he stayed with Wisbech Town and served the club from March 1960 as a player-coach . In 1968 he broke his tent in Wisbech and moved to the coastal town of Blackpool , where he worked as a hotelier and died on February 19, 1984 at the age of 64.

successes

• FA Cup Winner: 1949

Web links

• Short Biography of www.treetonweb.co.uk (Engl.)

literature

• Matthews, Tony: Wolverhampton Wanderers - The Complete Record . Breedon Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-85983-632-3 , pp. 148-149 .

References and footnotes

1. ↑ The information on the number of games and goals relates to all competitive games.