Jimmy Davis

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Jimmy Davis
Personnel
Surname James Roger William Davis
birthday February 6, 1982
place of birth Redditch ,  England
date of death August 9, 2003
Place of death Oxfordshire ,  England
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1999-2003 Manchester United 0 (0)
2001 →  Royal Antwerp  (loan) 4 (0)
2002 →  Swindon Town  (loan) 13 (2)
2003 →  Watford FC  (loan) 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1997-1998 England pupil 9 (2)
1 Only league games are given.

James Roger William "Jimmy" Davis (born February 6, 1982 in Redditch , † August 9, 2003 in Oxfordshire ) was an English football player . The Manchester United striker was 21 years old and died in a car accident in August 2003.

Career

Jimmy Davis received his first professional contract with Manchester United in September 1999 and was loaned to the Belgian cooperation club Royal Antwerp for six months at the beginning of 2001 in order to gain his first professional experience. Upon his return, Davis made his competitive debut for United on November 5, 2001 in a 4-0 defeat in the League Cup to Arsenal . In August 2002 Davis was awarded for three months in the third-class Second Division at Swindon Town . There Davis played on the right wing and came to a total of 15 missions despite injury problems. With his safe ball control at high speed, Davis quickly became enormously popular with Swindon fans and was replaced with a standing ovation on his last appearance for Swindon in November 2002 . Swindon coach Andy King had previously tried unsuccessfully to extend the loan period, and another attempt to borrow Davis for the 2003/04 season failed. Instead, Manchester coach Alex Ferguson preferred a higher class club and Davis should spend the 2003/04 season in the First Division at Watford FC .

In the early hours of August 9, 2003, Davis was killed in a car accident on the M40 Motorway in Oxfordshire . Davis was on his way to Watford for the first game of the season, for which he was not scheduled due to an injury. The game was postponed after the accident became known. At the funeral, 500 mourners attended, including professional teams Watford and Manchester United, 70 junior and reserve United player and the captain of the England team , David Beckham . As the subsequent investigations showed, Davis drove heavily drunk and at high speed in foggy conditions into a truck driving in front of him and was dead on the spot.

In honor of Davis and Ray Harford , who died on the same day, a minute's silence was observed between Manchester United and Arsenal before the FA Community Shield on August 10, 2003, and both teams wore a black ribbon. A minute's silence was also observed during the international match between England and Croatia on August 20, 2003, and the English team played with black ribbon. After winning the FA Cup final in 2004, the Manchester players exchanged their jerseys for jerseys with Davis' name and shirt number 36, which he wore during his League Cup appearance in 2001, before the award ceremony.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gavin Willacy / English Schools Football Association: England Schoolboys, International Players records 1907-99 . Redwood Books Ltd., Trowbridge 1999, p. 57 .
  2. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2003/2004 . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2003, ISBN 1-85291-651-6 , pp. 107 .
  3. ↑ telegraph.co.uk: Player's funeral reunites Beckham and Ferguson (22 Aug 2003)
  4. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Under-21 United star over limit (March 3, 2004)
  5. ↑ englandfootballonline.com: England National Football Team Match No. 805
  6. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Players remember Davis (May 22, 2004)
personal data
SURNAME Davis, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davis, James Roger William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Redditch
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2003
Place of death Oxfordshire