John Cushley

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John Cushley
Personnel
birthday January 21, 1943
place of birth Hamilton ,  Scotland
date of death March 24, 2008
Place of death Bothwell ,  Scotland
position Middle runner
Juniors
Years station
Our Lady's High
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Blantyre Celtic
1960-1967 Celtic Glasgow 30 (0)
1967-1970 West Ham United 38 (0)
1970-1972 Dunfermline Athletic 49 (0)
1972-1976 Dumbarton FC 85 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

John Cushley (born January 21, 1943 in Hamilton , † March 24, 2008 in Bothwell ) was a Scottish football player .

Career

Cushley already played with Benny Rooney and Bobby Murdoch in the school team of Our Lady's High during school days and came to the Scottish top club Celtic Glasgow through the amateur club Blantyre Celtic in 1960 . There he first played for the reserve team of the Celts and made his first-team debut on March 27, 1963 in a 6-0 defeat against Kilmarnock . During his time at Celtic, Cushley was always overshadowed by the three-year-old team captain and long-time national player Billy McNeill , who was seeded on the center stage.

He came to a longer series of missions in the winter of 1965/66 when McNeill took a long break due to injury. During this time there was a 5-1 win over arch rivals Rangers and the quarter-finals in the European Cup Winners' Cup against Dynamo Kiev , when Cushley kept his place in the team in the second leg despite McNeill's return. Only through an injury in early February did he lose his regular place again, he missed the first half of 1966/67 because of a ligament damage suffered during the US tour in 1966. Cushley, who graduated from high school in English, Spanish, Latin and History and then obtained a Masters in Modern Language from Glasgow University , was also asked about his foreign language skills. In 1964, as a translator, he accompanied Jimmy McGrory to Spain in the unsuccessful attempt to bring Alfredo Di Stéfano to Celtic. Also in the national championship finals in 1967 , when his teammates, who went down in history as the Lisbon Lions, became the first British European Cup winners with a 2-1 win over Inter Milan , Cushley, who traveled as a reserve player, was given a task by coach Jock Stein : he should ensure that the Inter players who were incorrectly assigned to the substitute bench on the Celtic departed.

After Middlesbrough manager Raich Carter tried to sign Cushley in 1965, he moved to the London club West Ham United in the summer of 1967 for £ 25,000 . There he was to be the successor of Ken Brown in midfield alongside Bobby Moore , but was replaced after 27 games by coach Ron Greenwood by Alan Stephenson . The fan-favorite Wilbur , as he was called at West Ham after Wilbur Cush , returned to Scotland in 1970 and joined Dunfermline Athletic there. From 1972 to 1976 he ended his career as a part-time professional at Dumbarton FC , while also working as a teacher, an activity he had already pursued during his time at West Ham.

After his football career, he intensified his teaching activities, but remained in football in numerous positions. First he worked for Dumbarton and Clyde , then he acted as a scout for West Ham between 1993 and 1995 before he worked in a similar position for Celtic. When he finished his teaching career in 2003, he was Vice-Principal of St Ambrose High School and then returned to Celtic as Education and Welfare Officer . In this position he was responsible for the educational and professional development and advice of the club's youth players.

In 2007, Cushley was diagnosed with ALS and subsequently retired from Celtic. He died in March 2008 at his Bothwell home.

successes

  • European champion's cup: 1966/67 (without commitment, in the final as reserve player)
  • Scottish champion: 1965/66, 1966/67
  • Scottish Cup Winner: 1964/65, 1966/67 (not used in both finals)
  • Scottish League Cup winners: 1965/66, 1966/67 (not used in both finals)

literature

  • Eugene MacBride, Martin O'Connor, George Sheridan: An Alphabet of the Celts - A Complete Who's Who of Celtic FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1994, ISBN 0-9514862-7-6 , pp. 99 f .
  • Tony Hogg: Who's Who of West Ham United . Profile Sports Media, London 2005, ISBN 1-903135-50-8 , pp. 57 .

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personal data
SURNAME Cushley, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton (South Lanarkshire) , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2008
Place of death Bothwell , Scotland