Jimmy Case

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Jimmy Case
Personnel
Surname James Robert Case
birthday May 18, 1954
place of birth Liverpool ,  England
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
South Liverpool FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1973-1981 Liverpool FC 186 (23)
1981-1985 Brighton & Hove Albion 127 (10)
1985-1991 Southampton FC 215 (10)
1991-1992 Bournemouth AFC 40 0(1)
1992-1993 Halifax Town 21 0(2)
1993 Wrexham AFC 4 0(0)
1993 Wanneroo British
1993 Darlington FC 1 0(0)
1993 Sittingbourne FC
1993-1996 Brighton & Hove Albion 32 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1974 England U-21 1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1995-1996 Brighton & Hove Albion
1 Only league games are given.

James Robert "Jimmy" Case (born May 18, 1954 in Liverpool ) is a former English football player . The midfielder belonged in the 1970s to the then very successful team of Liverpool and fell on primarily for his outstanding shooting strength.

Adolescence

Not far from Paul McCartney's home , Jimmy Case grew up in the Liverpool suburb of Allerton . As a young teenager, he was short, but was noticed early on by talent scouts in his region. He first played in school teams and then joined a team of dock workers called "Blue Union", where he mainly learned a physically robust style of play.

Case began an apprenticeship as an electrician after graduating from high school and continued to do this after signing a contract with Liverpool, while playing for the reserve team at the same time. In the meantime he had also grown physically and with a surge in growth he had created the conditions that later suited him with his work-intensive style of play in the right midfield.

Career as a soccer player

Liverpool FC (1973–1981)

Case first played for the small club South Liverpool before moving to Anfield in May 1973 . On April 26, 1975 he made his debut for Liverpool FC in a championship game against Queens Park Rangers when the "Reds" won 3-1 after two goals from John Toshack and another goal from Kevin Keegan . By 1976 he developed into a regular player in midfield and - measured by his position - was characterized by an above-average risk of scoring goals; alone in a European Cup game against Śląsk Wrocław he scored three goals in December 1975. His first goal overall fell in the 3-2 victory in the league against Tottenham Hotspur and in the further course of the 1975/76 season he was instrumental in winning the championship. He also played in the UEFA Cup , scored a goal in the final first leg against Club Brugge and won the competition with his team.

In the subsequent 1976/77 season Case was able to defend his place in the team that played for a triple of the English championship, FA Cup and European Cup . The second championship in a row succeeded, but in the FA Cup final, Liverpool lost 2-1 to Manchester United , with Case having scored the equalizer shortly after 0-1. This hit symbolized the way Case played and was scored with hardness and spin from outside the penalty area. A few days later he was in the European Cup final against Borussia Mönchengladbach and was 3-1 successful in Rome .

Case won two other English championships and European Cup editions with Liverpool FC and added the League Cup to his collection in 1981 . At the beginning of the 1980s, he then had to fend off more and more competition from the up-and-coming Sammy Lee . Coach Bob Paisley eventually considered selling Case, with Paisley worried that if Case were transferred, his deep friendship with midfield colleague Ray Kennedy could have led to disagreements in the team. Eventually, however, Case moved to Brighton & Hove Albion in the summer of 1981 .

Brighton & Hove Albion (1981–1985)

In exchange with Mark Lawrenson , who moved in the opposite direction from Brighton to Liverpool, Case went to the south coast of England for a transfer equivalent of £ 450,000. There he should be largely responsible for the respectable success of the club in the early 1980s at Goldstone Ground .

In 1983 he moved to the FA Cup final with Brighton, where he faced Manchester United again. The game ended in a 2-2 draw and Brighton narrowly missed the surprise win when United goalkeeper Gary Bailey blocked a Gordon Smith shot with a spectacular save just before the end of the game. In the second leg, Case and his team had no chance and lost 4-0. Previously, the club had to accept relegation from the First Division with the last place in the table . Although he was thus deprived of the opportunity to continue to play first division football in Brighton, Case stayed in the second division second division with the "Seagulls" for almost two years .

Southampton FC (1985-1991)

In March 1985, Case moved back to the first division for Southampton FC for £ 30,000 , where it was the last commitment in the era of Lawrie McMenemy . He was doing the in December 1984 Arsenal exchanged Steve Williams replaced and could with its high operational readiness existing doubters in the following that it had already seen more than his footballing zenith, appease. In just a few weeks he and his team achieved fifth place in the final table , which, however, should not bring the desired UEFA Cup place, as English football clubs were to be banned from European club competitions after the Heysel disaster .

After the resignation of McMenemy at the end of the season, Case received the position of team captain from the new coach Chris Nicholl . In his first full season in Southampton, Case led the Saints to the FA Cup semi-finals after beating his old Brighton club 2-0 in the quarter-finals. In an exciting game with Southampton FC on April 5, 1986, Case lost to Liverpool FC 2-0 after two goals in extra time from Ian Rush . With a win, Case would have had the opportunity to be the first player to have stood in the FA Cup final with three different clubs.

In the more than six years at Southampton FC, Jimmy Case's ability to tackle had not suffered even as he got older and he compensated for the growing deficits in speed due to his experience with game overview and skills in passing. Even at the age of around 37, he was still one of the most respected midfielders in English top division football. He was chosen internally for the best season of the 1989/90 season and represented in December 1990 a selection of the Football League against an eleven of the Irish League Association. The 1989/90 season turned out to be one of the best in the club's recent history and Case played a memorable game against his old Liverpool club on October 21, 1989 after two goals from Rod Wallace and goals from Paul Rideout and Matthew Le Tissier with one 4-1 victory for Southampton FC ended. In the team, which eventually finished in seventh place in the league, Case helped his young midfield colleagues Glenn Cockerill and Barry Horne as an experienced player . In addition to Wallace and Le Tissier, there were also actors such as Alan Shearer and Jason Dodd in this team led by Case.

However, when Ian Branfoot inherited the former coach Nicholl in June 1991, the new sporting director decided to forego the services of Case in the future. He then switched to AFC Bournemouth just a few days after Branfoot was signed , which caused great displeasure within the Southampton FC fan base, especially since Terry Hurlock, who was intended as a replacement, should not meet the expectations of the Saints.

Career finale (1991–1996)

During the 1991/92 season, Case acted in the AFC Bournemouth team coached by Harry Redknapp and his 40 league appearances there were also his first games in the English third division. After only one season, he then moved to Halifax Town , which was looked after by John McGrath and his assistant Frank Worthington . His stay there lasted only six months and during the rest of the 1992/93 season he played for AFC Wrexham , with which he was promoted from the fourth highest division.

After a brief stint for the small club Sittingbourne FC Case returned to Brighton in December 1993 to work there both as a player and as a Kotrainer alongside Liam Brady . In November 1995, Case took over from Brady as head coach. At the age of 41, Case was the oldest outfield player in terms of the entire Football League Federation and the Premier League at the time. Only goalkeeper Peter Shilton was an older registered player at 46; but since this was not used at Coventry City and West Ham United , Case was the oldest "active" player in an English professional league at the time.

After football

After Case with Brighton at the end of the 1995/96 season was relegated from the third division and was with his team in December 1996 in the fourth division bottom of the table, he was finally dismissed. His coaching career in English professional football was already over and Case later only worked for the small club FC Bashley - not far from Southampton.

Since then, Case has appeared sporadically at Altherrenspiele and is best known as a football expert for Radio Hampshire . In 2007, Case was the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the landing Champions Cup victory against Borussia Moenchengladbach with three old Liverpool companions ( Tommy Smith , club record player Ian Callaghan and former Welsh defender Joey Jones ) on a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland , in which the Liverpool's successes will be remembered in a show program.

successes

  • European championship champions: 1977, 1978, 1981
  • UEFA Cup Winner: 1976
  • Supercup winner: 1977
  • English champion: 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980
  • English league cup winner: 1981
  • Charity Shield Winner: 1976, 1977 (shared), 1979, 1980

literature

  • Jeremy Wilson: Southampton's Cult Heroes . Know The Score Books, 2006, ISBN 1-905449-01-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Case, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Case, James Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool