Stan Horne
| Stan Horne | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Stanley Frederick Horne | |
| birthday | December 17, 1944 | |
| place of birth | Clanfield , England | |
| position | midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Bampton Youth Club | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1962-1965 | Aston Villa | 6 (0) |
| 1965-1969 | Manchester City | 50 (0) |
| 1969-1973 | Fulham FC | 79 (0) |
| 1972 | St. Louis Stars | |
| 1973 | Chester FC | 18 (0) |
| 1974 | Denver Dynamos | 20 (0) |
| 1973-1975 | Rochdale AFC | 48 (5) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Stanley Frederick "Stan" Horne (born December 17, 1944 in Clanfield ) is a former English football player . As a dark-skinned athlete, he was considered an "exotic" player in English football in the 1960s. He was at the time part of the Manchester City squad that won the English championship in the 1967/68 season .
Athletic career
Horne was trained at Aston Villa from 1962 . He made his first six first division appearances in the 1963/64 season under coach Joe Mercer , including the first on December 7, 1963 against Leicester City (0-0) and the last three games of the season. However, there were no further probation opportunities under Mercer's successor Dick Taylor the following year and when Mercer was new in charge of the second division Manchester City in the 1965/66 season , Horne followed him in September 1965.
He also made his debut with the "Citizens" against Leicester City with a draw (2: 2) and in his first year Horne rose with the new club as the second division champion . He came in 15 games and in the following first division season 1966/67 he doubled this number. However , he then lost his position as the right outside runner to Mike Doyle , so that his contribution to winning the English championship in 1968 with five inserts was too small to receive an official championship medal . The sporting perspective in Manchester was permanently clouded and so he moved to London in February 1969 to join the second division FC Fulham .
The job in Fulham was ambitious. Under the new coach Bill Dodgin installed in December 1968 , Horne was against Preston North End (2-1) part of a team that had been changed in many positions. The second game was lost 6-0 against Bristol City and in the end Fulham was relegated to the bottom of the table in the third division - the "Cottagers" had also been last in the previous year (at that time in the first division). In the subsequent 1969/70 season, the desired resurgence was unmatched and as a result, Horne lost his regular place. When Fulham achieved the goal on the second attempt in 1971, Horne was only marginally involved with nine missions. A good two years later, in August 1973, he went to the fourth division for Chester FC and four months later for the third-highest division at Rochdale AFC . There he let his career end until 1975, whereby he had to accept a descent again in 1974 . In between he was active in 1972 with the St. Louis Stars and 1974 with the Denver Dynamos in the North American NASL .
Horne resigned from active professional sports at the age of almost 31 and worked in the construction industry from then on.
Web links
- Statistical data from the Post War English & Scottish Football League AZ Player's Database
- Statistics currently at Manchester City
- Stan Horne in the NASL
- Profile on playerhistory.com ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Individual references / footnotes
- ^ "Conversations with Stan Horne (Manchester City, Aston Villa and Fulham)" (thetwounfortunates.com)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Horne, Stan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Horne, Stanley Frederick (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Clanfield , England |