Ted Phillips

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Ted Phillips
Ray Crawford and Ted Phillips.jpg
Ted Phillips (right) with Ray Crawford
Personnel
Surname Edward John Phillips
birthday August 21, 1933
place of birth Gromford ,  England
date of death January 9, 2018
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
FC Leiston
1953-1964 Ipswich Town 269 ​​(161)
1964-1965 Leyton Orient 36 0(17)
1965 Luton Town 12 00(8)
1965-1966 Colchester United 32 0(13)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
FC Floriana
1 Only league games are given.

Edward John "Ted" Phillips (born August 21, 1933 in Gromford - † January 9, 2018 ) was an English football player . As a longtime striker from Ipswich Town , he won the English championship with the club in 1962 . He was known for his extremely hard shot and with 181 competitive goals he scored the third most goals in the history of "Town".

Athletic career

Phillips was born in the small town of Gromford, near Snape . He first played in his home country for Leiston , was also talented in cricket and joined the army . There he was discovered by a talent scout who placed him at Ipswich Town at the end of 1953. During auditions, he impressed with his enormous shot strength and the then goalkeeper Jack Parry recommended his head coach Scott Duncan lastingly Phillips commitment. The negotiated weekly salary was eight pounds, which could increase to ten pounds in relation to performance.

In his first season 1953/54 he rose with the new club in the second division - a third division champion medal was denied him, however, because he had only made three appearances. After only a year Ipswich went back to the third division and under the new coach Alf Ramsey , who took over in 1955, Phillips scored goals on the assembly line. Exceptional were his performances in the season 1956/57, when he set a total of 46 goals in official matches a club record, and thus significantly to the resurgence contributed. A year later, a new striker joined the club in Ray Crawford from Portsmouth and the interaction with Phillips worked perfectly from the start. The duo was very much feared by their opponents and the two went down in English football history as "Terrible Twins". Crawford was now mostly the top scorer in the team and Phillips was more often noticed by his "assists" - somewhat mockingly Phillips attributed the high number of hits from his teammate to "knockers", from which Crawford benefited because the opposing goalkeeper Phillips did not take hard shots could hold on. Together, the two won with Ipswich in the 1960/61 season the second division championship and the associated promotion to the top English division. In his first division debut year, Phillips scored 28 goals in 40 games. He also appeared as a regular penalty taker and he converted eight of his 25 successful penalties (out of a total of 28 attempts) in the 1961/62 season. That year he won the English championship with Ipswich completely surprising.

In the following years, however, he went downhill again and in the year after the departure of coach Ramsey, who later led the English national team to the 1966 World Cup, Ipswich rose in the 1963/64 season from the first division. Shortly beforehand, Phillips had left the club in March 1964 for Leyton Orient . Something that Phillips was unable to do during his sporting heyday was an appearance on the English national team. He had only attended Ramsey's training camp once, but then injured his ankle and made room for Jimmy Greaves . In the year of the World Cup in his own country , Phillips announced his retirement as an active player. In addition to "Orient", he also played for Luton Town and Colchester United . He then coached FC Floriana in Malta , but ultimately concentrated on a career outside of the football business by working for Pirelli Cables in the future .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ray Crawford: 'Ted was just the sort of player Colchester and Orient could do wit right now'. In: romford-today.co.uk. January 9, 2018, accessed May 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Martin Brooks: Ipswich Town Champions 1961/62 . The History Press, Stroud 2011, ISBN 978-0-7524-5890-8 , pp. 145 f .
  3. ↑ "Ted Phillips at 80: Powerful Ipswich Town legend was goalkeepers' nemesis" (East Anglian Daily Times)
personal data
SURNAME Phillips, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Phillips, Edward John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Gromford , England
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2018