Jimmy Adamson

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Jimmy Adamson
Personnel
Surname James Adamson
birthday April 4, 1929
place of birth Ashington ,  England
date of death November 8, 2011
Place of death Nelson ,  England
position External rotor (right)
Juniors
Years station
East Chevington Juniors
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1947-1964 Burnley FC 426 (17)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1953 England B 1 ( 00)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1970-1976 Burnley FC
1976 Sparta Rotterdam
1976-1988 Sunderland AFC
1978-1980 Leeds United
1 Only league games are given.

James "Jimmy" Adamson (born April 4, 1929 in Ashington , † November 8, 2011 in Nelson ) was an English football player and coach . As right external rotor he was 17 years Active and member of the champion team of 1960 of Burnley FC . He played a total of 486 competitive games and in the first half of the 1970s he was the head coach of the "Weinroten".

Athletic career

Player career

Adamson was born in the north-east English mining town of Ashington, which also produced other famous footballers, including Jackie Milburn and the brothers Bobby and Jack Charlton . He worked briefly at the mine, but it wasn't long before he moved from the home-grown East Chevington Juniors to Burnley FC . There he signed a professional contract as a 17-year-old in January 1947, but his debut lasted until February 1951. In the remaining games of the 1950/51 season, he completed fourteen missions in the position of right outer runner. He was also located there in the further course of his career. Although his game was seldom described as spectacular, with his tackle and header strength he was characterized by great reliability. He harmonized very well on the right with the Northern Irish half-forward Jimmy McIlroy and off the field the two were good friends.

During the May 1959/60 season , Adamson was team captain and he was not missing a single game on the road to success. The following year, the club celebrated a remarkable success in the European championship competition with a win against the two-time finalists Stade Reims , which could only be defeated by the later title holder Real Madrid in 1956 and 1959 - the 3-1 win in the first leg of the next round against Hamburger SV was then no longer enough, as the second leg was lost with 1: 4. In the 1961/62 season Adamson reached with his men the final in the FA Cup , in which Burnley Tottenham Hotspur lost 3-1. The good performances that year also led to his nomination as England's Footballer of the Year . He also drove with the English national team to the 1962 World Cup in Chile . Here he was just as unlikely to play an international match as he had in his entire career, but he served the team as part of the supervisory staff of "boss" Walter Winterbottom - he had already acquired his coaching license in 1957 from the English FA .

After the World Cup from the "Three Lions" made the FA Adamson the offer to take over the care of the national team. Adamson declined because he classified himself as too inexperienced and he also planned to continue his active career. So the FA handed over the task to the future world champion coach Alf Ramsey and Adamson completed two more years of playing until his retirement in 1964.

Coaching career

Immediately after the end of his playing career, Adamson became assistant to trainer Harry Potts . He was responsible for the daily work with talents who, like him, were often scouted from the English Northeast . Burnley was known for not being able to sign top players and Adamson felt it was his job to make stars out of second-rate players with good training. In 1970 he followed Potts as head coach. In his first full season 1970/71, however, he rose as the table penultimate , where he corrected this two years later with the rise as a second division champion . He kept the club from then on in the top division, although he often had to sell the best players before he left the club in January 1976 - shortly thereafter Burnley went down to the second division again .

Adamson's next coaching station was Sparta Rotterdam in the Netherlands . The engagement ended after just one month. He returned to England and from December 1976 he was in charge of Sunderland AFC , which was promoted to the first division in the 1975/76 season. The start turned out to be a disaster and the first seven league games were lost goalless. Numerous changes in the team and new signings followed. The measures then paid off with significantly more positive results, but the decline could still not be averted. After the nerve-wracking fight to stay in the league, the start of the second division season with just one win from twelve games was sobering. The performance then stabilized somewhat, but the return to sixth place was clearly missed. Things then developed positively at the beginning of the 1978/79 season with only one loss from eight games. Adamson then resigned as Sunderland coach to take over in October 1978 as the successor to Jock Stein as head coach at first division club Leeds United .

Leeds was considered a "difficult place", as expectations were high after the recent successes under Don Revie . Adamson seemed to be on the right track after his arrival, because in addition to reaching the semi-finals in the League Cup , Leeds landed under him in the league in a good fifth place (the best placement in the "post-Revie era"), the participation entitled to the UEFA Cup . But the hopes were not fulfilled. In addition to top scorer John Hawley , other important players such as Frank Gray and Tony Currie left the club, while substitute commitments such as Alan Curtis , Wayne Entwistle and Brian Greenhoff disappointed. Increasingly, resentment spread in the appendix of Leeds and after a poor performance at 0-0 at home against Coventry City , strong protests could only be resolved with the help of the police. Adamson persevered regardless of the end of the season in his function; However, when the following season 1980/81 began badly and the fans continued to grumble, Adamson's time in Leeds ended in September 1980.

After that, Adamson stayed away from the football business completely. He spent the rest of his life in Burnley and passed away in November 2011.

Title / Awards

As a player

As a trainer

  • Charity Shield (1): 1973

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "England - International Results B-Team - Details" (RSSSF)
  2. ↑ a b "Jimmy Adamson obituary" (The Guardian)
  3. ↑ a b "Burnley legend Jimmy Adamson dies at 82" (BBC Sport)
  4. ↑ Mike Gibson, Rob Mason & Barry Jackson: Sunderland - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-78091-021-5 , pp. 210 .
  5. ↑ Martin Jarred & Malcolm MacDonald: Leeds United - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-78091-031-4 , pp. 283 f .
personal data
SURNAME Adamson, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adamson, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Ashington
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 2011
Place of death Nelson