Robert Wakenshaw
| Robert Wakenshaw | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Robert A. Wakenshaw | |
| birthday | December 22, 1965 | |
| place of birth | Ponteland , England | |
| size | 178 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1983-1985 | Everton FC | 3 (1) |
| 1985-1986 | Carlisle United | 8 (2) |
| 1986 | → Doncaster Rovers (loan) | 8 (3) |
| 1986-1987 | Rochdale AFC | 29 (5) |
| 1987-1989 | Crewe Alexandra | 22 (1) |
| 1989 | Northwich Victoria | 1 (0) |
| 1989 | Southport FC | 12 (2) |
| Fleetwood Town | ||
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Robert A. Wakenshaw (born December 22, 1965 in Ponteland ) is a former English football player . As a striker , he began his career with the first division club Everton . There the participant of the Junior World Championships 1985 could not assert himself athletically. He later made no lasting impression on lower-class teams from Carlisle United to fourth division Crewe Alexandra , before he retired from professional football in the Football League at the end of the 1988/89 season at the age of 23 .
Athletic career
Wakenshaw's professional career began at Everton with the signing of the first contract in December 1983 and in the 1983/84 season he celebrated his debut on May 5, 1984 for the "Toffees". On the right winger position he represented the commonly used Alan Irvine or Terry Curran and in the 1-1 draw against Manchester United he even scored a goal. In the following years he waited mostly in vain for further probation opportunities. On the one hand, he had no part in the FA Cup victory in 1984 and he was only marginally involved in winning the championship in 1985 , when he defeated Liverpool (1-0) in the late phase of the 1984/85 season after a brief stint in the derby. in the sportingly insignificant game on the last matchday against Luton Town (0: 2) as part of a B-Elf in the starting line-up. Another two substitutions in the early rounds of the European Cup Winners' Cup against UC Dublin and Fortuna Sittard were recorded in his statistics, but even there he was missing in the decisive encounters leading to the title win. Despite the lack of practice in professional football, he was part of the English junior national team, which took part in the World Cup in the Soviet Union from the end of August 1985 . There he was eliminated in the preliminary round, but came into play in all three games and scored a goal in the 2-2 draw against Paraguay. Shortly thereafter, he moved to second division Carlisle United in September 1985 .
His stay in Carlisle was short-lived and after seven appearances in nine consecutive league games with a total of two hits, he found little consideration at the club, which was increasingly in danger of relegation. It was not until January 1986 that he was back in the starting line-up in the fourth FA Cup round against Peterborough United (0-1), but was replaced early and loaned to third division Doncaster Rovers in March 1986 . The next station was the fourth division AFC Rochdale from September 1986 . In Rochdale he was in the starting line-up 28 times during the 1986/87 season and in the exciting battle for relegation he contributed five goals - including an important goal in the 5-3 win against Halifax Town on the third last day of the game. Overall, Wakenshaw prevented with the AFC Rochdale due to four wins from five games the already believed relegation as bottom of the table. In June 1987, he then moved on in the direction of league competitor Crewe Alexandra .
In Crewe, however, Wakenshaw remained in the 1987/88 season with only one goal from 20 league games below expectations and had only come from October 1987 only sporadically to the train. Shortly before the end of 1988 he came to his last missions before the contract was terminated before the end of the season. Wakenshaw then turned his back on the game operations of the Football League and shortly thereafter completed a league game for Northwich Victoria and twelve games for Southport FC in the Northern Premier League (NPL) in the Football Conference . The last known station was the club Fleetwood Town , also based in the NPL , before he left the soccer business and later opened a cleaning business.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Barry J. Hugman: Football League Players Records 1946-92, p. 621
- ^ Rothman: Football Yearbook 1989-90, p. 899
- ↑ "Robbie Wakenshaw" (Southport FC) ( Memento of 14 September 2012 at the Web archive archive.today )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wakenshaw, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wakenshaw, Robert A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ponteland |