Nigel Saddington

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Nigel Saddington
Personnel
birthday December 9, 1965
place of birth Sunderland ,  England
date of death January 24, 2019
position Central defense
Juniors
Years station
Sunderland AFC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Coles Cranes
SC Vaux
1984-1985 Doncaster Rovers 6 0(0)
1985-1986 Roker
1986-1988 Sunderland AFC 3 0(0)
1988-1991 Carlisle United 97 (15)
1991-1992 Gateshead FC 17 0(0)
1992 Blyth Spartans
1992– Nissan
1 Only league games are given.

Nigel Saddington (born December 9, 1965 in Sunderland , † January 24, 2019 ) was an English football player . The defender played 106 games (15 goals) between 1984 and 1990 in the lower division of the Football League .

Career

Saddington was a student at Sunderland AFC and made a name for himself at the 1981 English Schools Trophy when he reached the state finals with the Monkwearmouth Schoolboys . In the men's field, he first played in local soccer at Wearside . In 1984 the defender came to the Football League Third Division for the Doncaster Rovers , for which he made six appearances in the second half of the season, but left the club at the end of the season because of homesickness.

In early 1986 he was selected by Lawrie McMenemy for Sunderland AFC in the Second Division brought, as a player he was probably still registered from Doncaster Rovers in the Football League, so to have been paid a transfer fee of £ 5,000 between the two clubs. He made his first appearance for Sunderland in September 1986 in the first round match of the Full Members Cup against FC Barnsley and was successful as a penalty taker in the 8: 7 success on penalties. By February 1987 Saddington came to four more competitive appearances, the central defender positions were mostly occupied by Steve Hetzke , Gordon Armstrong and his former schoolmate David Corner . After the dismissal of McMenemy, he was neither under interim coach Bob Stokoe nor under Denis Smith , who took over the team after relegation to the Third Division for the 1987/88 season .

In February 1988 he moved as a successor to Wes Saunders for a transfer of £ 12,500 to the relegation-threatened fourth division club Carlisle United ; as the table penultimate succeeded in relegation. Saddington was under coach Clive Middlemass the following two years a regular in the defense center, was team captain and increasingly dangerous goal. After four goals in 40 missions in the 1988/89 season he was in the following season with ten league goals (including five by penalty) in 44 missions behind Keith Walwyn, the second top scorer of his team. It gambled away on the last match day of the 1990/91 season by a 2-5 defeat at Maidstone United participation in the promotion play-offs; Saddington was voted Player of the Year by supporters within the club. For Saddington, the game should be the last of his Football League career. After reports came up in August 1990 that he was considering ending his professional career because of diabetes , a disease of chronic fatigue syndrome ensured that he could not play during the season and left the club in the summer of 1991 on a free transfer.

Saddington continued his career on a part-time basis for a season marked by injury problems in the fifth-rate Football Conference at Gateshead FC . He played there some of his 17 league appearances at the side of his former teammate Corner. In August 1992 he worked for the Blyth Spartans for a few weeks before ending his career for the next few years in the Wearside League at Nissan , a works team for the car manufacturer. After his professional career, Saddington made a living as a car salesman and gave training sessions in elementary schools. After Sunderland's Roker Park Stadium was demolished in 1997 , he bought a house on the former stadium grounds. He died of heart disease at the age of 53 in January 2019, leaving behind two daughters and a grandchild.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Garth Dykes, Doug Lamming: All the Lads - A Complete Who's Who of Sunderland AFC Polar Print Group Ltd, Leicester 2000, ISBN 1-899538-15-1 , pp. 378 .
  2. ↑ doncasterrovers.co.uk: Nigel Saddington ( January 29, 2004 memento in the Internet Archive ), accessed January 28, 2019
  3. ^ Saddington in for cup debut . In: Newcastle Evening Chronicle , September 16, 1986, p. 16.  (paid link)
  4. ^ Roker on the spot . In: Newcastle Journal , September 17, 1986, p. 14.  (paid link)
  5. ↑ cf. Mike Gibson, Rob Mason & Barry Jackson: Sunderland - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, Derby 2012, ISBN 978-1-78091-021-5 , pp. 486 f .
  6. ↑ Roker sick list grows . In: Newcastle Journal , February 19, 1988, p. 18.  (paid link)
  7. ↑ Saddington looks set to quit . In: Newcastle Evening Chronicle , August 16, 1990, p. 32  (paid link)
  8. ↑ Soccer star's biggest battle . In: Newcastle Journal , September 2, 1991, p. 8.  (paid link)
  9. ^ Saddington heading for Gateshead . In: Newcastle Evening Chronicle , May 27, 1991, p. 20.  (paid link)
  10. ^ Saddington set to leave . In: Newcastle Evening Chronicle , May 1, 1992, p. 34  (paid link)
  11. ^ John Harman: Alliance to Conference 1979-2004: The First 25 Years . Tony Williams Publications, 2005, ISBN 978-1-869833-52-7 , pp. 293 .
  12. ^ Lee's men move off bottom . In: Newcastle Journal , October 21, 1991, p. 22.  (paid link)
  13. ↑ Spartans start with a bang . In: Newcastle Evening Chronicle , August 14, 1992, p. 23.  (paid link)
  14. ↑ Spartans need win . In: Newcastle Journal , August 29, 1992, p. 55  (paid link)
  15. ↑ We're back to our best, says Peacock . In: Newcastle Evening Chronicle , November 6, 1992, p. 62  (paid link)
  16. ↑ Blyth's big Trophy tie off and switched to Thursday night . In: Newcastle Evening Chronicle , January 30, 1995, p. 19.  (paid link)
  17. ↑ newsandstar.co.uk: Tributes paid to former Carlisle United captain Nigel Saddington (Jan 25, 2019) , accessed January 28, 2019
  18. ↑ sunderlandecho.com: Family pay tribute to ex-Sunderland player Nigel Saddington who has died aged 53 (Feb. 11, 2019) , accessed on March 29, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Saddington, Nigel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Sunderland
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2019