Jim Upton

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Jim Upton
Personnel
Surname James Edwin Glen Upton
birthday June 3, 1940
place of birth Coatbridge ,  Scotland
date of death November 24, 2017
Place of death Cardiff ,  Wales
position defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
St Roch's FC
1959-1961 Celtic Glasgow 0 (0)
1961– Tonbridge FC
1963-1964 Cardiff City 5 (0)
1964-1965 Bath City (0)
1 Only league games are given.

James Edwin Glen "Jim" Upton (born June 3, 1940 in Coatbridge , † November 24, 2017 in Cardiff ) was a Scottish football player .

Career

Upton played in 1958/59 in "Junior Football" in Glasgow for the club St Roch's FC before he was committed in November 1959 by Celtic Glasgow . At Celtic he did not come as inserts in the youth and reserve team beyond the summer of 1961 he received a new contract and therefore left the club in August 1961 in the south of England and joined the in the Southern Football League playing FC Tonbridge on. In 1963 he was committed to a free transfer from Welsh club Cardiff City , who competed in the English Football League Second Division . At the start of the season, Upton benefited from an injury mishap of the club, in which he was not entirely uninvolved: in a public training match in the pre-season, he broke the leg of Cardiff defenders Alan Harrington and Trever Peck in tackles. Due to the failures of the competitors Upton came in September and October 1963 to some missions as a left defender. After five moderately successful second division appearances (one win, one draw) alongside Trevor Edwards and two appearances in the League Cup in 1963/64 against local rivals AFC Wrexham , he lost his place in the team after some teammates had recovered and left the club at the end of the season . In July 1964 Upton was the first signing of new coach of Bath City , Ivor Powell . In the following months he came to a total of 29 competitive appearances (no scoring) for the club competing in the Southern League, before he left the club again in March 1965 and no longer appeared in higher-class football.

Upton died at the age of 77 in Cardiffer University Hospital of Wales .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ scottish-football-historical-archive.co.uk: Scottish League appearance records - TUV ( Word ), accessed December 23, 2017
  2. ↑ scottish-football-historical-archive.co.uk: Player's Transfers - 1961 ( Word ), accessed December 23, 2017
  3. ^ John Crooks: Cardiff City Football Club: Official History of the Bluebirds . Yore Publications, Harefield 1992, ISBN 978-0-9513321-8-4 , pp. 75 .
  4. ^ John Crooks: The Bluebirds - A Who's Who of Cardiff City Football League Players . Seargeant Brothers Printers Ltd, Pontypool 1987, ISBN 0-9511984-1-6 , p. 136 .
  5. ↑ bathcityfc.com: Past Players - U ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 23, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / old.bathcityfc.com
  6. ↑ bmdsonline.co.uk: Jim UPTON: Obituary (Dec. 4, 2017) , accessed December 23, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Upton, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Upton, James Edwin Glen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Coatbridge
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 2017
Place of death Cardiff