Sid Castle

Sid Castle
Personnel
Surname	Sidney Ernest Rowland Castle
birthday	March 12, 1892
place of birth	Basingstoke ,  England
date of death	January 27, 1978
Place of death	Basingstoke ,  England
position	Winger (right)
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Basingstoke Town
	Thornycrofts FC
1919-1920	Guildford FC
1920-1921	Tottenham Hotspur	5 0(0)
1921-1923	Charlton Athletic	66 (10)
1923-1926	Chelsea FC	32 0(2)
1926	Guildford United
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1926-1928	Ajax Amsterdam
0000-1930	Zwolsche AC
1930–	PEC Zwolle
1932	VV Heerenveen
1933-1935	Meppeler SC
1936-1938	VV Heerenveen
1 Only league games are given.

Sidney Ernest Rowland "Sid" Castle (born March 12, 1892 in Basingstoke , † January 27, 1978 ibid) was an English football player and coach. Castle completed between 1920 and 1926 for the three London clubs Tottenham Hotspur , Charlton Athletic and Chelsea FC in all three league levels of the Football League a total of 103 games (12 goals). After his active career, he took over the coaching position at several Dutch football clubs and discovered the exceptional player Abe Lenstra .

Career

Sid Castle played at the beginning of his football career for Basingstoke Town and FC Thornycrofts , the factory team of the car manufacturer Thornycroft , in the Hampshire League before the First World War paralyzed regular play in 1915. Castle was in the war-related replacement competitions, among other things for the professional clubs Reading FC and Crystal Palace , before he played with the resumption of league operations from 1919 at Guildford. In March 1920, at the age of 28, he made the leap into the Football League and he played five league games in the Second Division for the north London club Tottenham Hotspur until 1921 . The competition on the right wing striker position was great at the Spurs with Jimmy Banks and the English national player Fanny Walden , so Castle was not considered in the victorious FA Cup final in 1921 and was released at the end of the season.

He continued his professional career in east London at Charlton Athletic , the club had recently been included in the newly created Third Division South . Castle was a right winger in the Football League debut against Exeter City (final score 1-0) on August 27, 1921 for the squad. Over two seasons he completed 66 league games for the club competing in the " Valley " and scored ten goals. A highlight of his stay there was the FA Cup 1922/23 , when Charlton was the first third division team to advance to the quarterfinals. The first division teams Manchester City , Preston North End and West Bromwich Albion were beaten in the first three main rounds . In the first round match against Manchester Castle prepared the 2-1 winner with a corner kick, which Arthur Whalley made use of with a header. The crew traveling home was then greeted by an enthusiastic crowd at Euston station . After the 2-0 home win in the second round match against Preston there was an invasion of the court after the final whistle, and while his teammates disappeared into the cabin wing in time, Castle was not fast enough and was carried across the field on shoulders. After another 1-0 victory over the England and Welsh national team from West Bromwich, the team lost 1-0 to Bolton Wanderers in the quarter-finals in front of over 40,000 spectators in the overcrowded Valley .

When he moved to Chelsea in the summer of 1923 , he played for the first time in the First Division , the top English division , at the age of 31 . For the West London club, the offensive player played 24 games (two goals) in the 1923/24 season , but missed relegation with Chelsea because of the poorer goal quotient against Nottingham Forest as penultimate in the table. While he shared the role of right winger with Jackie Crawford in the first division season , his four years younger rival was preferred and Castle came after eight appearances in the 1924/25 season, in his last year 1925/26 at Chelsea only used in reserve. At the end of his career, he then played for Guildford United in the Southern League .

At the end of 1926 Castle went to the Netherlands and took over from Harold Rose as coach at Ajax Amsterdam . He coached the team until 1928, during which time he won two regional championship titles. After Castle was replaced by his predecessor Jack Reynolds , he left Amsterdam and moved to Zwolle . There he initially looked after the Zwolsche AC , where he was succeeded in 1930 by Horace Williams in the coaching position, and then the PEC Zwolle . In 1932 he coached VV Heerenveen for half a year for the first time and brought the twelve-year-old Abe Lenstra to the club, whom he integrated into the first men's team from 1936 to 1938 during his second engagement. Between his two activities at Heerenveen, he was also in charge of the Meppeler Sports Club from 1933 to 1935.

In the 1950s, Castle ran a company canteen in his birthplace, Basingstoke, and died in the hospital there on January 27, 1978 at the age of 85.

literature

• Colin Cameron: The Valiant 500 . Colin Cameron, Sidcup 1991, ISBN 978-0-9517729-0-4 , pp. 49 .
• Scott Cheshire: Chelsea FC Players Who's Who . Stoke-on-Trent 1987, ISBN 0-9512715-0-4 , pp. 49 .
• Bob Goodwin: The Spurs Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Tottenham Hotspur FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1992, ISBN 0-9514862-8-4 , pp. 70 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Redden: The History of Charlton Athletic - Valley of Tears, Valley of Joy . 2nd revised edition. Print Co-ordination, London 1993, ISBN 0-9522652-0-6 , pp. 21st ff .
2. ↑ See Gezinskaart  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Castle, SE in Stadsarchief Amsterdam  
3. ↑ Nieuwe trainer van ZAC ( nl ) Het Vaderland . June 30, 1930. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
4. ↑ mscmeppel.nl: Overzicht hoofdtrainers Meppeler Sport Cub . Retrieved October 16, 2011