Ted Burgin

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Ted Burgin
Personnel
Surname Edward Burgin
birthday April 29, 1927
place of birth Bradfield ,  England
date of death March 26, 2019
size 170 cm
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
until 1949 Alford Town
1949-1957 Sheffield United 281 (0)
1957-1958 Doncaster Rovers 5 (0)
1958-1961 Leeds United 58 (0)
1961-1966 Rochdale AFC 207 (0)
from 1966 Glossop North End
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1954 England B 2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
from 1966 Glossop North End
1 Only league games are given.

Edward "Ted" Burgin (born April 29, 1927 in Bradfield ; † March 26, 2019 ) was an English football goalkeeper . At around 1.70 meters tall, he was known as “The Cat” at Sheffield United in the early 1950s due to his agile style of play and was nominated in the English squad in 1954 as a substitute for Gil Merrick for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland . However, it was not used there.

Athletic career

Burgin initially only played as an amateur footballer for Alford Town in post-war England , before writing to first division club Sheffield United to ask for a trial session. He did not mention that he was relatively short for a goalkeeper at 1.70 meters and he was then able to use the opportunity offered him regardless. In March 1949, he signed a professional contract with the “Blades” and thanks to his agility, which later earned him the nickname “The Cat”, he became a regular at the end of November 1949. By the beginning of the 1954/55 season he only missed three of 200 league games and in the seasons 1950/51, 1952/53 and 1953/54 he was "permanently present". He helped the team, which was relegated shortly after his commitment to the Second Division , by winning the Second League Championship in 1953 to return to the First Division .

As the constant "number 1" of Sheffield United, Burgin played himself in the focus of English selection teams and as early as 1951 he was traveling through Australia with a team from the English Football Association (FA). He was also nominated as a substitute for an international match against Austria in 1953. However, he waited for a mission here as in vain as in the subsequent World Cup in 1954 , when he served as a hedge for Gil Merrick . In the following years he was denied an A international match, so that in the two games for the B selection before the World Cup tournament against West Germany (4: 0 on the Glückauf-Kampfbahn in Gelsenkirchen) and Yugoslavia (1: 2) stayed. The last attempts were limited to the 1956 trip to South Africa with the FA. Increasing injury problems and relegation in 1956 with Sheffield United ensured that Burgin lost his place between the posts to Alan Hodgkinson , who also made his debut in the English national team in 1957 . In December 1957, Burgin finally joined the second division rivals Doncaster Rovers for a transfer fee of 3,000 pounds .

The stay in Doncaster turned into a brief guest performance. Burgin, who was to replace Harry Gregg who had migrated to Manchester United , broke his collarbone after playing five league games and after recovering he moved to Leeds United in exchange for Willie Nimmo . In Leeds, he succeeded the former regular goalkeeper Royden Wood , but the sporting development in 1960 saw him relegated to the second division again . Shortly thereafter, coach Jack Taylor replaced him with Alan Humphreys and so the ways parted in January 1961. Next station was the fourth division AFC Rochdale . There Burgin only stayed on the stage of lower-class league football until 1966, but with the 1962 final of the league cup , which was held for the second time, he celebrated a respectable success - in the semifinals his team had defeated the Blackburn Rovers . The decisive game against Norwich City was clearly lost with two defeats (0: 3; 0: 1).

From 1966, Burgin worked as a player- coach for Glossop North End . Later stations were Oswestry Town , Wellington Town and Burton Albion .

literature

  • Clarebrough, Denis & Kirkham, Andrew: Sheffield United - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-78091-019-2 , pp. 174 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "England - International Results B-Team - Details" (RSSSF)
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ "BRITISH" FA XI "TOURS" (RSSSF)
personal data
SURNAME Burgin, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burgin, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Bradfield
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2019