Jimmy Fleming (soccer player, 1929)

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Jimmy Fleming
Personnel
Surname James Freeburn Fleming
birthday January 7, 1929
place of birth Glasgow ,  Scotland
date of death August 2019
position Defender , outside runner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Tollcross Clydesdale
1949-1954 Stirling Albion 19 (0)
1954-1958 AFC Workington 88 (1)
1958-1961 Berwick Rangers 68 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

James Freeburn "Jimmy" Fleming (born January 7, 1929 in Glasgow ; † August 2019 ) was a Scottish football player .

Career

Fleming joined Stirling Albion in 1949 from Tollcross Clydesdale , an amateur club from east Glasgow . Interrupted by his military service, he made 19 league appearances by 1954. During his time at Stirling he did not get beyond the role of the supplementary player on the outside runner positions , but was part of the team that won the championship of Scottish Division Two in 1952/53 . After the first division season 1953/54 he was piloted by the later coaching legend Bill Shankly in the English Third Division North to AFC Workington . Shankly later wrote in a newspaper column about the commitment that he already had excellent players at Workington with the axis Malcolm Newlands (goalkeeper), George Aitken (center runner) and Jimmy Dailey (center forward) and only had to fill the outside positions. Fleming's name was also in Shankly's “little black notebook”. He judged the commitment: "They must have been crazy to let him go free."

From Shankly he was called up as a right defender and formed with team captain Jack Vitty most of the 1954/55 season the defender pair when Workington finished the season in eighth place after three seasons in the table cellar. In October 1955 he was together with Dennis Stokoe one of two Workington players who belonged to a selection of the Third Division North on the occasion of a representative game against the southern counterpart, which ended in a 3-3 draw. After he suffered a broken leg in January 1956, he did not participate in competitive games until October 1956. In late December 1956, he replaced Vitty in the left-back position and played alongside Bobby Brown most of his 23 season appearances when the club finished the season in fourth place. In the season 1957/58 the two defender roles were mostly occupied by Brown and Alex Rollo , so that Fleming only came to one use in his last year at Workington. The club missed with 19th place in the final table the qualification for the new single-track Third Division and was classified in the Fourth Division .

In August 1958, after 88 league and five cup games for Workington, he joined the Berwick Rangers , the only English team participating in the Scottish league game. There he became team captain of the team consisting of part-time professionals, and placed with the team from 1959 to 1961 three times in a row in 9th place in the Scottish Football League Division Two. A highlight of his time in Berwick was the first round match in the Scottish FA Cup in 1959/60 , when the team led by Fleming lost 3-1 to the record champions Glasgow Rangers in Shielfield Park . The stadium, which was specially renovated and expanded for the game, is said to have accommodated up to 16,000 spectators, Berwick itself had a population of 12,000.

After his footballing career, he earned his living with his own plumbing company. Fleming had been suffering from dementia for many years when he passed away at the age of 90 in August 2019. He left behind his wife, with whom he was married for 66 years, and three sons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b stirlingalbionfc.co.uk: Jimmy Fleming (August 22, 2019) , accessed on August 26, 2019
  2. ↑ QUICK CHANCE FOR HARBOR . In: Dundee Courier , December 10, 1952, p. 5.  (paid link)
  3. ↑ ALBIONS MUST WAIT . In: Dundee Courier , February 3, 1953, p. 6.  (paid link)
  4. ↑ ALBION'S TWO CHANGES . In: Dundee Courier , February 12, 1954, p. 6.  (link subject to charge)
  5. ↑ 'I STAKED MY SOCCER LIFE ON A £ 900 NOBODY!' . In: The People , July 19, 1964, p. 17.  (paid link)
  6. ↑ cf. Tom Allen: Reds Remembered: The Definitive Workington AFC SoccerData, Nottingham 2005, ISBN 978-1-899468-23-2 , pp. 73 .
  7. ^ League III (North) pick team . In: Lancashire Evening Post , September 19, 1955, p. 10.  (paid link)
  8. ↑ Broadis leads a thrilling rally . In: Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer , October 14, 1955, p. 8.  (paid link)
  9. ^ Workington v Chesterfield . In: Football Post (Nottingham) , October 27, 1956, p. 8.  (link with costs)
  10. ↑ cf. Tom Allen: Reds Remembered: The Definitive Workington AFC SoccerData, Nottingham 2005, ISBN 978-1-899468-23-2 , pp. 75 .
  11. ↑ cf. Tom Allen: Reds Remembered: The Definitive Workington AFC SoccerData, Nottingham 2005, ISBN 978-1-899468-23-2 , pp. 76 .
  12. ↑ TWO SIGNINGS . In: The Berwick Advertiser , August 7, 1958, p. 10.  (link subject to charge)
  13. ↑ berwickrangers.com: Jimmy Fleming , accessed August 26, 2019
  14. ↑ BERWICK GOES 'CUP-MAD' . In: Newcastle Journal , January 30, 1960, p. 12.  (paid link)
  15. ↑ Berwick will be unchanged for Cup . In: Newcastle Evening Chronicle , January 26, 1960, p. 20.  (paid link)
  16. ^ Berwick put faith in local courage . In: Belfast Telegraph , January 29, 1960, p. 12.  (paid link)
  17. ^ Bob Ferrier, Robert McElroy: Rangers: The Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 2005, ISBN 978-1-85983-481-7 , pp. 512 .
  18. ↑ The Sky Sports Football Yearbooks (13,283) and Inglis: Football Grounds of Britain (13,365) lead the first round game in the Scottish FA Cup 1966/67 against the Glasgow Rangers as a record visit to Berwick
personal data
SURNAME Fleming, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fleming, James Freeburn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH August 2019