Thomas Ashall

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Thomas Ashall
Personnel
birthday October 16, 1915
place of birth Doncaster ,  England
date of death 1976
position Half- forward , winger (right)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1935 Temple Normanton Old Boys
1935 Mansfield Town 2 (0)
1935-1936 Nuneaton Town 16 (3)
1936 Huddersfield Town 0 (0)
1936-1937 Dudley Town
1937 Cradley Heath
1937-1938 Stafford Rangers
1938–? Dudley Town
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas Ashall (born October 16, 1915 in Doncaster , † 1976 ) was an English football player . The striker made a brief appearance for Mansfield Town in the Football League in the 1930s and was active for clubs in the Birmingham & District League for a number of years .

Career

Ashall, from New Edlington near Doncaster , who represented Chesterfield as a student , played in Derbyshire local football in late 1934 as a left half-forward for the Temple Normanton Old Boys and worked in mining in the local Bond's Main Colliery . Shortly before Christmas he was discovered by Harry Martin , coach of Mansfield Town , and therefore came to the club as a test player in early 1935.

Originally an amateur, he received a professional contract in February 1935 after three appearances on the reserve team, in which he had scored ten goals (including five against the reserves of Barnsley FC ). The press praised Ashall as a player who “impressed with relatively mature skills given his age, not only when scoring goals, but also when playing in midfield. He's unusually quick to take up positions and move to uncovered positions near the goal. ”Ashall finally made his debut in early March 1935, as did Clarence Hufton , in a game in the Football League Third Division North against Crewe Alexandra , he was on preferred to the left half- forward position of Wally Hunt . The Nottingham Journal correspondent noted about his appearance in the 1-1 draw : "In the second half he had a great phase that made even the toughest critics sit back and take notice." Ashall was also in the following game, a 2: 1 home win against Hartlepools United in the team; after a coach change to Charlie Bell for the following away game against the Doncaster Rovers but Hunt was preferred again because of his greater experience. Ashall was no longer used in the first team, and he won the Bass Charity Vase with the reserve team .

For the 1935/36 season Ashall joined Nuneaton Town , which played in the Birmingham & District League . By early January, he enters all 25 competitive matches, scoring 5 goals (16.3 in the league), but on the right wing, both inside forward as well as outside right . In late September, he won the Coventry Hospital Cup with the team with a 3-0 win over the Coventry City reserves . Ashall was courted by several clubs at the turn of the year and decided to move to Huddersfield Town . His stay there was short-lived, however, on February 29, 1936 he made his first appearance for Dudley Town , also a club of the Birmingham & District League. For the 1937/38 season he was obliged by league rivals Cradley Heath , and it was next to his Dudley teammates Frank Warrilow and Francis Harris as the most important newcomer. A little later, Ken Wilmot, a third former Dudley player followed. In December 1937 he was released at Cradley Heath and joined the Stafford Rangers league . In the 1938/39 season he was back at Dudley Town, as one of seven professionals in the squad.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on January 5, 2020
  2. ↑ Chesterfield Boys' Promising Start . In: Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald , November 15, 1935, p. 16.  (paid link)
  3. ↑ SPORTS ITEMS . In: Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald , March 8, 1935, p. 13.  (paid link)
  4. ↑ CLEVER INSIDE-LEFT. . In: Nottingham Evening Post , February 11, 1935, p. 10.  (paid link)
  5. ↑ SPORTS ITEMS . In: Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald , January 18, 1935, p. 15.  (paid link)
  6. ↑ Mansfield's Wise Step . In: Sheffield Independent , February 13, 1935, p. 8.  (link subject to charge)
  7. ↑ Mansfield May Play Clever Young Amateur. . In: Nottingham Journal , February 8, 1935, p. 11.  (paid link)
  8. ↑ Mansfield Experiments . In: Sheffield Independent , March 1, 1935, p. 8.  (paid link)
  9. ↑ ASHALL AND HUFTON IN THE LIMELIGHT. . In: Nottingham Journal , March 4, 1935, p. 11.  (paid link)
  10. ^ Mansfield at Doncaster . In: Sheffield Independent , March 15, 1935, p. 8.  (paid link)
  11. Jump up ↑ Jack Retter: Who's Who the Stags, 1902-95: From Wesleyans to Mansfield Town . Yore Publications, Harefield 1995, ISBN 978-1-874427-31-5 , pp. 20 .
  12. ↑ fromtowntotown.org.uk: Statistics Log 1889-2019 , accessed January 5, 2020
  13. ↑ fromtowntotown.org.uk: Nuneaton Town 1919-1937 Part 2 , accessed January 5, 2019
  14. ↑ CLUB FORESTALLED . In: Gloucestershire Echo , January 28, 1936, p. 5.  (paid link)
  15. ^ Nuneaton Winger for Huddersfield . In: Coventry Evening Telegraph , January 22, 1936, p. 11.  (paid link)
  16. ↑ EARLY SHOCKS FOR STAFFORD . In: Staffordshire Sentinel , February 29, 1936, p. 6.  (link subject to charge)
  17. ↑ PROSPECTS OF BIRMINGHAM LEAGUE SOCCER CLUBS . In: Birmingham Daily Gazette , August 27, 1937, p. 9.  (paid link)
  18. ↑ SHORT PASSES . In: Sports Argus , September 4, 1937, p. 6.  (link subject to charge)
  19. ↑ SHORT PASSES . In: Sports Argus , August 27, 1937, p. 9.  (link subject to charge)
  20. ^ Dudley Town . In: Sports Argus , August 20, 1938, p. 8.  (link subject to charge)
personal data
SURNAME Ashall, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Doncaster
DATE OF DEATH 1976