Stan Palk
| Stan Palk | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Stanley Palk | |
| birthday | October 28, 1921 | |
| place of birth | Liverpool , England | |
| date of death | October 12, 2009 | |
| Place of death | Liverpool , England | |
| position | Half-forward (left) | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| South Liverpool | ||
| 1940-1948 | Liverpool FC | 13 (0) |
| 1948-1952 | Port Vale | 159 (14) |
| Worcester City | ||
| Northwich Victoria | ||
| Prescot cables | ||
| Pwllheli | ||
| Flint Town United | ||
| Oswestry Town | ||
| Maghull | ||
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Stanley "Stan" Palk (born October 28, 1921 in Liverpool , † October 12, 2009 ibid) was an English football player . Palk was under contract with Liverpool FC from 1940 to 1948 and was part of the first English championship team after the Second World War, but was only used regularly at the lower-class professional club Port Vale from 1948 to 1952.
Career
Liverpool-born Stan Palk played for South Liverpool as a left half-forward in the Lancashire League until the outbreak of war and worked in a factory when he was recommended to Liverpool FC coach George Kay in early 1940 . This invited Palk to training and offered him a contract with a weekly salary of £ 1.50 despite the regular game operations interrupted by the Second World War. His debut in the war-related substitute competitions was Palk on the side of Matt Busby , Bob Paisley and Billy Liddell in May 1940. In the following years Palk played in regional league competitions 61 games for Liverpool, scoring 14 goals, before he was from 1944 for two Years served in the Royal Navy and was stationed in Mombasa .
After his discharge from military service in 1946, he reported back to Liverpool and made his debut in the Football League on February 12, 1947 in a 5-0 win over Grimsby Town . Palk came to five more missions by the end of the season when Liverpool won the fifth championship in the club's history. But Palk missed the minimum number of missions necessary to receive a championship medal. After seven other league appearances in the 1947/48 season , he was immediately after a US tour during the summer break of Gordon Hodgson , a former Liverpool center forward and coach of Port Vale , together with his teammate Mick Hulligan for a total transfer of £ 10,000 in the football League Third Division South piloted. According to his own statement, the main reason for Palk's change was the prospect of regular appearances in the professional team. In the 1948/49 and 1949/50 seasons Palk played all competitive games for Port Vale, he was also a regular member of the squad in the next two seasons, but his contract was not extended in the summer of 1952 after 159 league games and 14 goals.
Palk played from then on in non-league football for Worcester City , Northwich Victoria , Prescot Cables and in Wales for Pwllheli, Flint Town United and Oswestry Town . He let his career end in his home town of Maghull at the local football club, which he later coached and to which he remained connected as a spectator until old age. The father of three died at the age of 87 in October 2009 at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital .
literature
- Jeff Kent: Port Vale Personalities - A Biographical Dictionary of Players, Officials and Supporters . Witan Books, Stafford 1996, ISBN 0-9529152-0-0 , pp. 233 f .
Web links
- Profile on lfchistory.net
- RIP Stan Palk: A former Red dies ( Memento from April 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) - message on liverpoolfc.tv from October 15, 2009
Remarks
- ↑ incorrectly often also P o lk
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Palk, Stan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Palk, Stanley (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liverpool |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 2009 |
| Place of death | Liverpool |