Mike Summerbee

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Mike Summerbee
Personnel
Surname Michael George Summerbee
birthday December 15, 1942
place of birth Preston ,  England
position Winger , winger (right)
Juniors
Years station
Cheltenham Town
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1959-1965 Swindon Town 218 (39)
1965-1975 Manchester City 357 (47)
1975-1976 Burnley FC 51 0(0)
1976-1977 Blackpool FC 3 0(0)
1977-1979 Stockport County 87 0(6)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1966 England U-23 1 0(0)
1968-1973 England 8 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1978-1979 Stockport County
1 Only league games are given.

Michael George "Mike" Summerbee (born December 15, 1942 in Preston ) is a former English football player . Mostly used on the right as a right winger or winger, he celebrated his greatest successes with Manchester City . He won the English championship in 1968 , the FA Cup in 1969 and the League Cup in 1970 . He also contributed to winning the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1970 , although he was absent from the final due to injury.

Athletic career

Club career

Summerbee was born in Preston, northwest England, but learned to play football in Cheltenham, over 250 kilometers south . As the son of professional footballer George Summerbee , who was there in the fall of his career as a player- coach for Cheltenham Town , he played in the club's youth teams before he joined the third division Swindon Town at the age of 17 . In Swindon, he completed 218 league games in five and a half years, in which he again scored 39 goals. The greatest success was the promotion to the second division as runner-up . There he met a total of 13 times in his last season 1964/65 and during an appearance on Maine Road in January 1965 he caught the people in charge of Manchester City . Swindon won the game 2-1 and Summerbee had scored a goal. When City coach Joe Mercer largely renewed his squad in August 1965 , Summerbee was his second signing. Manchester City was considered a "sleeping giant" in the second division. The transfer fee of 35,000 pounds was relatively small and the deal went quickly over the stage because Summerbee pushed it because he had already admired Mercer as a former top player at Everton and Arsenal .

Just one day after his move, he made his debut on the first day of the 1965/66 season for the "Citizens" against Middlesbrough FC . For the next ten years he was henceforth a regular player in Manchester. In his first season, he played all 52 competitive games, scored ten goals and was an important factor in the team that rose to the top English division as second division champions in 1966 . In the First Division he helped the club to stay in 15th place and the following year to surprisingly win the English championship in 1968 . Summerbee, who mostly played on the right wing and occasionally as a center forward, scored 20 goals in 49 competitive games in the 1967/68 season. In the following season 1968/69 Summerbee won with Manchester City in the FA Cup and in the 1-0 final against Leicester City he prepared the decisive goal of Neil Young on the right side . The following year, Manchester City added two more trophies to the collection: the League Cup and, above all, the European Cup Winners' Cup . In the second leg of the League Cup semi-final (first leg: 2: 1) Summerbee had the decisive 2: 2 equalizer to advance - by "stabbing" after a free kick by Francis Lee . In the later final success against West Bromwich Albion , however, he broke his leg and so he had to sit out a few weeks later in the 2-1 final win against Górnik Zabrze in the European Cup winners' competition.

Just in time for the start of the 1970/71 season, Summerbee returned to the starting line-up against Southampton FC , but after an alleged headbutt against Dave Walker shortly before the end, he was sent off. Overall, the round was disappointing and in addition to eleventh place in the championship , the domestic cup competitions ended early. Only when defending the European Cup Winners' Cup did Summerbee reach the semi-finals with Manchester, which were lost in the English duel against Chelsea with two 0-1 defeats. The reasons for the decline lay, as it were, in the disputes in the club management and in the long list of injuries. Summerbee also broke a bone in his foot in a 2-0 draw against Leeds United in late January 1971 ; his season finally ended in March after he suffered a fracture in his left leg. The bad luck continued at the beginning of the 1971/72 season, but a groin injury suffered from the 0-1 against Leeds was quickly healed and Summerbee was mostly back for the remainder of the season. In the 1972/73 season, Summer completed 46 competitive appearances. In the meantime, his requirement profile had changed. If he had previously appeared as a goal scorer himself, he was now clearly assigned the role of preparer. This was underpinned by just two league goals. Although Summerbee was now 30 years old, was not free from injuries and was also physically demanding, he was represented in 53 compulsory games in the 1973/74 season. This included the final participation in the League Cup , where he missed his last chance to win the title with the 1: 2 loss to Wolverhampton Wanderers . The 1974/95 season was Summerbee's last as a player on Maine Road. In the end, he had played 452 games for Manchester City and scored 66 goals. He then moved to the first division rivals Burnley FC in July 1975 for £ 25,000 .

In Burnley, Summerbee descended from the English elite class as penultimate . In December 1976 he was briefly hired within the second division at Blackpool FC , but was only used there in three league games. He let the professional career fade from 1977 in the fourth division at Stockport County and in the 1978/79 season he also served the club as a player-coach . He stayed with his old club Manchester City in later years. His son Nicky later also became a professional player, which means that the tradition in this regard has been propagated into the third generation.

English national team

Summerbee was one of the most spectacular English players of the day on the right wing. Nevertheless, he completed only eight international matches in the English senior team . This was due to the fact that national coach Alf Ramsey did not appreciate the traditional winger in his formations. Summerbee was only used sporadically in experimental setups over a period of more than five years. He made his debut on February 24, 1968 at Hampden Park against Scotland (1-1). He then completed the quarter-final first leg with the "Three Lions" as part of the European Championship tournament in 1968 against Spain (1-0), but was then no longer represented in the finals in Italy when England was eliminated in the semi-finals.

For three years after that, Ramsey didn't consider Summerbee. On his comeback on November 10, 1971, he scored his first and ultimately only international goal for England after seven minutes against Switzerland (1-1). This was followed by three international matches in a row in May 1972. Among them was the end in the quarter-finals at the European Championship in 1972 against Germany in Berlin and most recently a bitter 0: 1 home defeat at home in Wembley Stadium against the "little" Northern Ireland . Summerbees last appearance for England took place on June 10, 1973 by substitution against the Soviet Union in Moscow.

Title / Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "England - U-23 International Results- Details" (RSSSF)
  2. ↑ "Mike Summerbee: Manchester City FC" (Sporting Heroes)
  3. ↑ "Mike Summerbee: England" (Sporting Heroes)
personal data
SURNAME Summerbee, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Summerbee, Michael George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Preston , England