John Agnew (soccer player)

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John Agnew
Personnel
Surname John Terrence Agnew
birthday June 27, 1935
place of birth Stockton-on-Tees ,  England
date of death 2002
position Winger (left)
Juniors
Years station
South Bank Juniors
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1953-1954 Sheffield Wednesday 0 (0)
1954-1956 Darlington FC 25 (4)
1956– Corby Town
1 Only league games are given.

John Terrence Agnew (born June 27, 1935 in Stockton-on-Tees , † 2002 ) was an English football player .

Career

Agnew, who was nicknamed Jack and Terry, played for the South Bank Juniors in Middlesbrough , before he came to first division club Sheffield Wednesday in November 1953 . At the Sheffield club he played for Wednesday "A", the third youth team to play in the Yorkshire Football League .

In August 1954 he moved to the Third Division North for Darlington FC . For the club he scored on his competitive debut against AFC Barrow (final score 3: 2) the goal to mean 3: 1, and then played 16 league games (4 goals) in a row as a left winger until mid-November . His last season appearance came in the FA Cup 1954/55 in the first round match against Barrow, when he missed several chances in the 1-1 draw. In the following season 1955/56 he came again in August and December / January to two series of missions on the left wing, but in the total of nine games he did not succeed in scoring and after he was last on January 21 in a 3-5 defeat against Carlisle United , he left the club at the end of the season and joined the Midland League playing club Corby Town .

Off the soccer field, Agnew became an engineer and earned a Ph.D. Comedian Alex Agnew emerged from the relationship with his third wife, a Belgian .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b barryhugmansfootballers.com: Profile Terry Agnew , accessed June 25, 2020
  2. ↑ a b thenorthernecho.co.uk: Belgian comedian traces his Darlington connection (July 13, 2007) ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 13, 2018
  3. ↑ a b Robins will face pivot they were keen to sign . In: Shields Daily News , August 26, 1954, p. 13.  (paid link)
  4. ^ Bentley v Wednesday . In: Star Green 'un , February 6, 1954, p. 8.  (link subject to charge)
  5. ^ Rotherham One Too Good . In: Star Green 'un , February 27, 1954, p. 8.  (link subject to charge)
  6. ↑ Spuhler makes two goals, misses two . In: Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer , September 2, 1954, p. 6.  (paid link)
  7. ^ Frank Tweddle: The The Definitive Darlington FC SoccerData, Nottingham 2000, ISBN 978-1-899468-15-7 , pp. 51 .
  8. ↑ flanderstoday.eu: May you live in the time of Alex Agnew (2015) , accessed on October 13, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Agnew, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agnew, John Terrence (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockton-on-teas
DATE OF DEATH 2002