Keith Peters (soccer player)

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Keith Peters
Personnel
birthday July 19, 1915
place of birth Port Sunlight ,  England
date of death 1989
position defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Bromborough FC
1935-1944 Liverpool FC 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Keith Peters (born July 19, 1915 in Port Sunlight , † 1989 ) was an English football player .

Career

Peters played for Bromborough FC before joining nearby Liverpool FC as an amateur . In December 1935 he belonged - already as a player of Liverpool FC - to an amateur selection of Lancashire for a game against Staffordshire . In the course of the 1936/37 season he rose to professional. Originally designed as external rotor and left winger called up, he finally established himself as a defender .

For his only appearance for Liverpool in the First Division Peters came on January 2, 1939 against Middlesbrough FC as a substitute for Jim Harley on the position of left back. He formed the defenders pair with Barney Ramsden and received benevolent press feedback despite the 3-0 defeat. The Liverpool Evening Express certified him to be a "useful substitute" who was "often defeated in tackles, but whose positional play was good and whose handling of the ball was as good as any other player on the field". The Liverpool Echo praised the fact that "Liverpool's defense, in which a passionate Keith Peters brought his skills, held out against one of the best teams in the country until 12 minutes after the break."

With the reserve team he won the Liverpool Senior Cup in 1939 with a 3-0 final victory over Tranmere Rovers , a year later he was part of the final squad in the Liverpool Challenge Cup , but the game ended with a 1-3 defeat against Skelmersdale United . With the outbreak of World War II, he was drafted into the Territorial Army , as were numerous other Liverpool players . Peters served in the King's Regiment (Liverpool) . In November 1939, the Liverpool Echo reported that Peters would be used during his army service for Southport FC . In the 1941/42 season he played a game as a guest player at Brighton & Hove Albion .

Peters is said to have been with Liverpool until 1944 before ending his active career.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on June 23, 2018
  2. ↑ a b PERSONNEL-ITY PARADE . In: Liverpool Echo , April 8, 1939, p. 6.  (link subject to charge)
  3. ^ Lancashire County Soccer Side . In: Lancashire Evening Post , December 27, 1935, p. 5.  (paid link)
  4. ^ A b Doug Lamming: Who's Who of Liverpool 1892-1989 . Breedon Books, Derby 1989, ISBN 0-907969-55-0 , pp. 120 .
  5. ↑ TAKING THE LONG REST . In: Liverpool Evening Express , January 2, 1939, p. 8.  (link with costs)
  6. ↑ L'POOL FAIL AWAY IN SECOND HALF . In: Liverpool Evening Express , January 3, 1939, p. 6.  (link with costs)
  7. ↑ TAKING THE LONG REST . In: Liverpool Echo , January 3, 1939, p. 9.  (link with costs)
  8. ↑ LIVERPOOL SENIOR CUP FINAL . In: Liverpool Echo , May 6, 1939, p. 16.  (link with costs)
  9. ↑ SKELMERSDALE RETAIN THE COUNTY CUP. . In: Ormskirk Advertiser , May 16, 1940, p. 2.  (link subject to charge)
  10. ↑ 20 Liverpool Players Called Up-But Can Play To-day . In: Birmingham Daily Gazette , August 30, 1939, p. 10.  (paid link)
  11. ↑ HOW BRITAIN'S NEW ARMY IS BEING TRAINED . In: Liverpool Evening Express , August 3, 1939, p. 7.  (link with costs)
  12. ↑ PETERS FOR SOUTHPORT . In: Liverpool Echo , November 4, 1939, p. 4.  (link with costs)
  13. ↑ See Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939–45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X , pp. 292 .
  14. ↑ lfchistory.net: Player profile Keith Peters , accessed June 23, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Keith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Sunlight
DATE OF DEATH 1989