John Hollowbread

John Hollowbread
Personnel
Surname	John Frederick Hollowbread
birthday	January 2, 1934
place of birth	Ponders End ,  England
date of death	December 7, 2007
Place of death	Torrevieja ,  Spain
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
	Enfield FC
1950-1952	Tottenham Hotspur
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1952-1964	Tottenham Hotspur	67 (0)
1964-1965	Southampton FC	36 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

John Frederick Hollowbread (born January 2, 1934 in Ponders End , † December 7, 2007 in Torrevieja ) was an English football goalkeeper . He was under contract with Tottenham Hotspur from the beginning of the 1950s to the mid-1960s , but was mostly only a substitute behind the respective regular keepers Ted Ditchburn , Ron Reynolds and Bill Brown , but was a permanent fixture in the reserve eleven with over 350 missions . On the way to winning the English championship in 1961 , he played a game as Brown's representative.

Athletic career

Hollowbread grew up in the Enfield district of north London and attended Chase Side Junior School and later Tottenham Technical College . At home with Enfield FC , he followed in his father's footsteps and like him stood between the posts as a goalkeeper for the club. He was so talented that he hired on an amateur basis at Tottenham Hotspur after a call to the English youth team from June 1950. At the end of January 1952 he was promoted to the professional squad and during this time he did his military service with the maintenance unit RAOC - there, too, football was not neglected and he won various military cups.

After first games for the reserve team towards the end of the 1954/55 season, he completed a professional game against the Blackburn Rovers for the first time on August 30, 1958 and a total of 40 first division matches in the season. It was a unique time window for him that was open to Hollowbread after the injury of long-time goalkeeper Ted Ditchburn , but ultimately he conceded 88 goals, which was partly responsible for the fact that the Spurs fell from third place in the previous year to fifth from last place . With the commitment of Bill Brown for the 1959/60 season, Hollowbread moved back into the second line as a goalkeeper of the reserve team and from then on he was only used sporadically. When Tottenham won the English championship and FA Cup double in the 1960/61 season , Hollowbread only got a single move, although he was harmless in a 3-0 win against West Ham United on Boxing Day 1960. His last game ended on April 4, 1964 against the later bottom of the table Ipswich Town with a 6-3 win. A month later he moved to the second division club Southampton FC for the transfer fee of 3,000 pounds . Hollowbread played 40 competitive games for the "Saints" before he seriously injured his knee in the game against Coventry City on September 8, 1965 and his career came to an abrupt end.

After the end of his active career, he remained connected to the amateur football around Southampton and took on various coaching activities. From April 1966 he ran the Manor House Inn in Bursledon and fifteen years later The Sun Inn Romsey , before he worked as bartender for the Bramshaw Golf Club in the New Forest - at the age of 45 he also learned to play golf and did the sport very intensive. For the last fourteen years of his life he lived with his wife in Spain and just under a month before his 74th birthday he died after a short illness on the Costa Blanca in the city of Torrevieja.

Web links

• Statistical data from the Post War English & Scottish Football League AZ Player's Database
• John Hollowbread in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database. Retrieved August 16, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Obituary: John Hollowbread" (Tottenhamhotspur.com)