Roy Cheetham

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Roy Cheetham
Personnel
Surname Roy Alexander John Cheetham
birthday December 21, 1939
place of birth Eccles ,  England
date of death December 8, 2019
position Outrunner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1956-1968 Manchester City 132 (4)
1968 Detroit Cougars 17 (7)
1968 Charlton Athletic 0 (0)
1968-1972 Chester FC 124 (8)
Great Harwood Town
Stations as a trainer
Years station
Great Harwood Town
1 Only league games are given.

Roy Alexander John Cheetham (born December 21, 1939 in Eccles - † December 8, 2019 ) was an English football player . As an outside runner he was active for Manchester City for around a decade and in the extended squad of the championship team from 1968 .

Athletic career

After watching games from Manchester City and Manchester United in his youth at home in Manchester , Cheetham joined the "Citizens" in 1956. From December 1956, the young outside runner was part of the professional squad and on May 8, 1958, he made his debut for the first division team in a 2-1 win against Luton Town . When he presented a mixed performance in the 2: 4 against Arsenal a week later and often looked bad in a duel with his direct opponent Jimmy Bloomfield , he was briefly relegated to the reserve team. In the subsequent 1958/59 season, he began to win a place in the starting XI more often. Without becoming a permanent regular player, he played a total of 132 league games for Manchester City in just under a decade. Among them were three second division years between 1963 and 1966 and in the club's history Cheetham went on August 30, 1965 as the first substitute for Manchester City, when he replaced Mike Summerbee in the game against Wolverhampton Wanderers . After rising again in 1966 as a second division champion, he only appeared sporadically; it was only followed by a league use in the season 1966/67 and also to win the English championship in 1968 , he contributed only marginally with just three championship games.

At the turn of the year 1967/68 Cheetham had already left the club. In the USA he finally played for the Detroit Cougars in the new North American Soccer League (NASL). There he scored seven goals in 17 league games, but in the “Lakes Division” his team finished last and clearly missed the play-offs. In October 1968, Cheetham returned to England, but at his new employer Charlton Athletic he did not come to the train in the first team, so that he was drawn to the fourth division FC Chester in December 1968 . In just under four years he was a fixture and penalty taker in the team that did not get beyond the lowest English professional league. In the 0-0 win against Crewe Alexandra , he was on April 22, 1972 for the last time in a professional league game on the field.

Cheetham left his career as a player- coach at the amateur club Great Harwood Town from now on . He later remained loyal to his ex-club Manchester City and served the association of former City players as treasurer, for example. In addition, he felt a special bond with the top Hungarian player Ferenc Puskás . Cheetham had admired this since the Hungarian 6-3 victory in England. In 1999 he traveled to Budapest on his own and there was a spontaneous meeting on the occasion of a soccer game. When Puskás died in 2006, Cheetham also attended his funeral.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ a b "The day Fred Eyre laid on a goal for mighty Puskas" (The Telegraph)
  3. ↑ "Great Harwood Legends" (greatharwoodtown.co.uk)
personal data
SURNAME Cheetham, Roy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cheetham, Roy Alexander John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Eccles
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2019