Laurie Topp

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Laurie Topp
Personnel
Surname Lawrence Robert Topp
birthday November 11, 1923
place of birth St Pancras , London ,  England
date of death January 8, 2017
Place of death Broadstone ,  England
position Outrunner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1944-1961 Hendon FC 361 (5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1947-1956 England amateurs 33 (0)
1952-1956 Great Britain Olympia 11 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Lawrence Robert "Laurie" Topp (born November 11, 1923 in St Pancras , † January 8, 2017 in Broadstone ) was an English football player .

career

Topp made his debut on January 29, 1944 in the war-related Hertfordshire & Middlesex League for Golders Green , the club took on the name Hendon FC two years later . Topp remained loyal to the club and amateur footballer throughout his career. In total, the outside runner completed 587 competitive games (16 goals) for Hendon FC by the end of his career in 1961.

When he won the FA Amateur Cup in 1960 at London's Wembley Stadium in front of 60,000 spectators, he scored the goal to equalize 1-1 against Kingstonian FC (final score 2: 1) three minutes before the end of the game , five years earlier he had the same place in the final In front of 100,000 spectators, they lost 2-0 against the most successful amateur club in the country, FC Bishop Auckland . He won the championship of the Athenian League with the club in 1953, 1956 and 1961, the Middlesex Senior Cup in 1956, 1958 and 1960. In addition, he won the Middlesex Senior Charity Cup a total of six times (1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1954, 1957).

Topp regularly represented the English amateur national team , for the first time in 1947 against Wales, a total of 33 appearances for the selection. In addition, he represented Great Britain at the Olympic football tournaments in Finland in 1952 (first round against Luxembourg) and in Melbourne in 1956 (quarter-final against Bulgaria), where he made three appearances and also scored a goal in the 9-0 first round win against Thailand in 1956.

Topp spent his professional life at Desoutter Brothers , a tool manufacturer that gave him enough free time to meet his footballing obligations and in return received tickets to important games from the club. The father of four died at the age of 93 after a long illness in a nursing home in Broadstone.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hendonfc.net: Former Staff - Laurie Topp , accessed January 11, 2017
  2. ↑ a b borehamwoodtimes.co.uk: 1952 and 1956 Olympic football legend who played for Hendon FC Laurie Topp dies after long illness (January 13, 2017) , accessed January 15, 2017
  3. ↑ a b hendonfc.net: Sunday January 8th - Laurie Topp , accessed January 8, 2017
  4. ↑ hendon-at-wembley.net: Hendon 2: 1 Kingstonian - Amateur Cup Final ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 8, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hendon-at-wembley.net
  5. ↑ Newsreel compilation of the final on youtube.com, accessed on January 8, 2017
  6. ↑ hendon-at-wembley.net: Hendon 0: 2 Bishop Auckland - Amateur Cup Final ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 8, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hendon-at-wembley.net
  7. ^ Brian McColl, Douglas Gorman, George Campbell: Forgotten Glories - British Amateur International Football 1901-1974 . Scottish Football Historical Archive, 2017, ISBN 978-1-326-35601-9 , pp. 301 ( scottish-football-historical-archive.co.uk [PDF]). Forgotten Glories - British Amateur International Football 1901-1974 ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.scottish-football-historical-archive.co.uk
  8. ↑ sports-reference.com: Athletes> Laurie Topp , accessed January 8, 2017
  9. ↑ Stephen Wagg: Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport . Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, ISBN 978-0-230-24125-1 , pp. 62 .
personal data
SURNAME Great, Laurie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Topp, Lawrence Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras , London
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2017
Place of death Broadstone