Paul Hallows

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Paul Hallows
Personnel
Surname Paul Charles Richard Hallows
birthday June 22, 1950
place of birth Chester ,  England
position External defense (right / left)
Juniors
Years station
Bolton Wanderers
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1967-1974 Bolton Wanderers 47 (0)
1974-1980 Rochdale AFC 197 (2)
1980–? Oswestry Town
1980/81 Mossley FC
1981–? Whitworth Valley
1 Only league games are given.

Paul Charles Richard Hallows (born June 22, 1950 in Chester ) is a retired English football player . The full-back played a total of 244 league games for the Bolton Wanderers (47) and the AFC Rochdale (197) in a more than ten-year professional career from the late 1960s in the lower division of the Football League .

Career

As a student Hallows represented school selections of Chester and Cheshire and entered after the Bolton Wanderers as Apprentice (dt. Trainee) at, in October 1967, he signed with the Wanderers his first professional contract. The right full-back came to his first competitive appearances for the Wanderers at the end of March 1969, but the three games in the Football League Second Division against Sheffield United (2: 5), Birmingham City (0: 5) and Blackpool (1: 4) all went well lost.

In the following season 1969/70 he started in the left-back position as a regular player and played 31 competitive games across all competitions by the end of January, after a 1: 2 home defeat in the FA Cup against league rivals FC Watford he was no longer considered for the rest of the season under Nat Lofthouse . In the following seasons, which included relegation to the Third Division (1971) and two years later promotion, he was used increasingly rarely, in his last three years at Bolton (1971 to 1974) he played a total of only eight competitive games. In one of his few missions on New Year's Day 1972 in York City , he clashed in the second minute of the game in a header duel with opponent Phil Burrows and had to be hospitalized with a serious head injury, his discharge was only two weeks later.

In May 1974, after seven years as a professional, his time at Bolton ended when the fourth division AFC Rochdale signed him for a transfer fee of £ 2000. Rochdale was one of the weakest clubs in the fourth division at the time and was never better than 15th place in the 24-team league in its upcoming six seasons, twice the club was bottom of the table (1978 and 1980) and therefore had to be re-elected Remain in the Football League . After his arrival, he succeeded Graham Smith as right-back and missed only one league game in his first three seasons at Rochdale, in 1976 he was honored internally as Player of the Year. One of the few highlights was reaching the third round of the FA Cup in the 1975/76 season, when they only had to admit defeat 1: 2 to the first division club Norwich City in the second replay .

In particular, under player- coach Doug Collins , who took over the post at Rochdale in early 1979, Hallows found almost no consideration. After his replacement by Bob Stokoe in November 1979, he not only returned to the team, but was also appointed team captain by the new coach. Hallows could only fill this role for a few weeks, after only three appearances he suffered a serious knee injury against Scunthorpe United at the end of November , which put him out of action for the rest of the season and at the same time heralded his departure from Rochdale at the end of the season after 223 competitive appearances. He let his career fade away over the next few years at Oswestry Town , Mossley FC and Whitworth Valley in non-league football . His sons Marcus ( Sligo Rovers , St Patrick's Athletic ) and Paul Jr. ( Airbus UK ) played first-class footballers in Ireland and Wales.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Hallows in the database of barryhugmansfootballers.com (English). Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d Steven Phillipps: Rochdale AFC Who's Who 1973 to 1999 . SoccerData, Nottingham 2015, ISBN 978-1-905891-95-5 , pp. 17 .
  3. ↑ cf. Simon Marland: Bolton Wanderers - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, Derby 2011, ISBN 978-1-85983-972-0 , pp. 402 f .
  4. ↑ PAUL HALLOWS IS MAKING A SPEEDY RECOVERY . In: Cheshire Observer , January 7, 1972, p. 28  (paid link)
  5. ^ Paul Hallows out of hospital . In: Liverpool Echo , January 14, 1972, p. 30.  (paid link)
  6. ^ Steven Phillipps: Rochdale AFC: The Official History 1907-2001 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2001, ISBN 978-1-874427-09-4 , pp. 100 .
personal data
SURNAME Hallows, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hallows, Paul Charles Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Chester