Reg Pickett

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Reg Pickett
Personnel
Surname Reginald Arthur Pickett
birthday January 6, 1927
place of birth Bareilly ,  India
date of death 4th November 2012
Place of death Rowland's Castle ,  England
position Outrunner , striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
until 1949 Weymouth FC
1949-1957 Portsmouth FC 123 (3)
1957-1963 Ipswich Town 140 (3)
from 1963 Stevenage Town
1 Only league games are given.

Reginald Arthur "Reg" Pickett (born January 6, 1927 in Bareilly , † November 4, 2012 in Rowland's Castle ) was an English football player . He was versatile, but mostly acted in the half positions as an outside runner and half forward . First he won the English championship with Portsmouth FC in 1950 and was team captain of Ipswich Town for several years after leaving there from 1957 . Under the later world champion coach Alf Ramsey, he led the team to the top English league in 1961 , but was only a "supporting actor" for a year when he surprisingly won the English championship after an injury.

Athletic career

Pickett was born in India to an English soldier serving there. When he was three months old, the family went back to their English homeland. Pickett learned to play football on the south coast. He gained his first experience in the adult sector outside of professional operations at Weymouth FC . There he was discovered in early 1949 by the nearby first division club Portsmouth FC . Shortly after signing for a fee of £ 750, the club won the league title . Pickett made his first own contributions in the following season of 1949/50 . When Jimmy Dickinson was on the road with the English national team, he replaced him on October 15, 1949 on the left outside runner position . His debut against Derby County ended with a 3-1 win and Pickett, now known for his versatility, stepped in again the following week - now for the injured Duggie Reid as a striker . Ultimately, he completed 14 league games over the course of the season in which Portsmouth was defending the championship, which qualified him for an official medal. His strengths lay in the passing game and in tackling; he was also adept at headers and tactical behavior. However, he should continue to be in the shadow of Dickinson and Jimmy Scoular , who were considered "set" on the defensive half positions. After Scoular's departure in 1953, he came more often to the train and in the season 1954/55 he achieved a notable third place with "Pompey" . Following the 1956/57 season, he moved as a 30-year-old for 5,000 pounds to Ipswich Town , which had just risen from the third division to the second division.

In Ipswich Pickett joined the team of coach Alf Ramsey , who a short time later named him as the successor to Doug Rees as team captain. In this role he led "Town" in the season 1960/61 to promotion to the top English division (in the same year Portsmouth rose to the end of a temporary sporting decline from the second division). However, he was represented by Billy Baxter from January 1961 due to an injury and the talented young Scot eventually ousted him from the team. When Ipswich then surprisingly won the English championship as a climber , Pickett only had three temporary assignments left (twice for Baxter and once for John Elsworthy ). After another year in Ipswich, when Pickett was a regular on the reserve team, he was sorted out by Ramsey's successor Jackie Milburn as "too old". He finally let his active career end in the Southern League at Stevenage Town . He then worked at the Portsmouth shipyard until his retirement at the age of 60 and lived on the Isle of Wight . He died at the age of 85 in a nursing home in Rowland's Castle .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Brooks: Ipswich Town Champions 1961/62 . The History Press, Stroud 2011, ISBN 978-0-7524-5890-8 , pp. 146 .
  2. ↑ "Pompey title winner passes away" (Chichester Observer)
personal data
SURNAME Pickett, Reg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pickett, Reginald Arthur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Bareilly , India
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 2012
Place of death Rowland's Castle , England