Jimmy Husband

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Jimmy Husband
Personnel
Surname James Husband
birthday October 15, 1947
place of birth Newcastle upon Tyne ,  England
position Winger , striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1964-1973 Everton FC 164 (44)
1973-1978 Luton Town 143 (44)
1978-1980 Memphis Rogues 80 (22)
1982-1983 Oklahoma City Slickers
Indoor
Years station Games (goals) 1
1981-1982 Cleveland Force 33 ( 09)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1967-1970 England U-23 5 ( 01)
1 Only league games are given.

James "Jimmy" Husband (born October 15, 1947 in Newcastle upon Tyne ) is a former English football player . The winger and striker was an integral part of the Everton FC squad in the late 1960s and early 1970s . There he celebrated the greatest success of his active career in 1970 when he won the English championship . After injury problems, Husband moved to Luton Town in 1973 and between 1978 and 1983 he let his career in North American football end.

Athletic career

Husband was from October 1964 a member of the professional team of Everton and on the penultimate match day of the 1964/65 season he made his debut against Fulham (1-1) in the top English division as a replacement for Derek Temple . At that time he still won the FA Youth Cup with the youth team and in the following three years he gradually developed into a regular player in the professional team. At the beginning he still held the position of the forward, he found himself more and more in the role of the right winger, which was preferred from now on . For the first time, Husband, who began to play international matches in the English U-23 team in 1967 , scored two goals each in the FA Cup and in two consecutive quarter-finals. The two hits at Nottingham Forest (2: 3) on April 8, 1967 were initially not enough for a win, but a year later against Leicester City (3: 1) they made the semi-finals. When Everton lost 1-0 to West Bromwich Albion in the later final, despite their extensive superiority, Husband was one of the particularly unlucky players - standing free in front of the opposing goal, he had missed a very good header chance.

Heading had never been one of his strengths in his career. Rather, Husband was characterized by speed, agility and generally good technical skills on the foot. The way of playing was often very popular with the public, although the performances were often subject to strong fluctuations. He was seen as a footballer who could "turn" a game, but who also lost confidence after less fortunate actions. His specialty was diagonal runs from the outside into the middle, through which he tried to force the opposing full-backs to leave their traditional position. His quality as a “stand-up man” was also widely recognized, as he often only managed to get up after a foul after a short time in order to continue the ongoing action. He reached the peak of performance in the 1968/69 season when he scored 20 competitive goals and was Everton's most accurate player behind center forward Joe Royle . When the "Toffees" won the English championship the following year , Husband contributed 30 appearances and six goals to the success. After the league title, Husband plagued increasingly injury concerns and in November 1973 he left the club in the direction of the second division Luton Town .

In Luton Husband introduced himself well to the new team and at the end of the 1973/74 season was promoted to second division runner-up . In the following year, however, it went back to the Second Division . Husband scored just three league goals on his return to the top division and in the end Luton missed relegation - tied with Chelsea - just one point behind Tottenham Hotspur . After three more years for Luton in the second division, Husband ended his active career in England and shortly thereafter continued in North American professional football.

In the course of the five years leading up to his final career end in 1983, he first played in the North American Soccer League for the Memphis Rogues , later in professional indoor soccer , the Major Indoor Soccer League , for Cleveland Force and most recently in the American Soccer League for Oklahoma City Slickers .

Title / Awards

literature

  • Ivan Ponting: Everton Player by Player . Hamlyn, London 1998, ISBN 0-600-59581-1 , pp. 50 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "England - U-23 International Results- Details" (RSSSF)
personal data
SURNAME Husband, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Husband, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle upon Tyne