Tom Black (soccer player, 1908)

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Tom Black
Personnel
Surname Thomas Black
birthday December 1, 1908
place of birth Holytown ,  Scotland
date of death 1993
position Defender (left),
outside runner (left)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1927 Alpine villa
1927-1928 Bellshill Athletic
1928-1931 Strathclyde FC
1931-1933 Arsenal FC 0 (0)
1933-1939 Plymouth Argyle 162 (0)
1939 Southend United 0 (0)
1939-1941 Third Lanark 0 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas "Tom" Black (born December 1, 1908 in Holytown , † 1993 ) was a Scottish football player .

Career

Black played for the Uddingston- based club Alpine Villa , from 1927 in Scottish Intermediate Football , first for Bellshill Athletic , in 1928 he moved to Strathclyde FC . In the summer of 1931, he was signed alongside W. Cameron and Alex Trotter as one of three Scottish intermediate football players from the English top club Arsenal . Although Scottish newspapers were already speculating about his upcoming debut in the first team after a good performance in a pre-season test match, he was only used in the reserve team for the next year and a half, and in 1932 he won a championship medal with the team in the London Midweek League .

Black's debut for Arsenal's first team, a third round match in the FA Cup in January 1933 against third division side FC Walsall would end in one of Arsenal's most famous defeats and FA Cup history . Because several Arsenal players were absent from the game due to injuries and a flu epidemic, including the regular left defender Eddie Hapgood , coach Herbert Chapman sat next to Black with Charlie Walsh and Billy Warnes on three debutants. Already 0: 1 behind, Black let himself be carried away in the middle of the second half to kick the thigh against the opposing center forward Gilbert Alsop , as the offense took place in Arsenal's penalty area, the referee decided on a penalty, which Bill Sheppard made for 2 : Final score converted to 0.

Cliff Bastin later wrote in his autobiography of a "great provocation" by Alsop, but Chapman "did not endure such behavior from any player in Highbury". Just a week after the cup game, several newspapers reported Black's move to Plymouth Argyle . Originally, however, he apparently had little desire to leave the British capital and move to the "provinces" and had an operation on his ear. While Arsenal were English champions at the end of the season, Black finally arrived in Plymouth with his wife in early March, where a total of 13 Scottish players were under contract at the time. With Sammy Black , also from North Lanarkshire , who played left winger at Plymouth, he was not related.

After he was only used sporadically at first, he moved to the regular team from December 1934 and in the following years formed the left defensive side as a left runner, mostly with defender Jimmy Rae . Overall, he completed 162 league games for the second division , with the club in the final tables between 5th and 15th place usually in the secured midfield. After his playing times decreased in the 1938/39 season , he joined the Southend United , playing in the Third Division South , in the summer of 1939, where coach David Jack Black knew from his time at Arsenal. Black was on the first three game days of the new season in the starting line-up before the game was stopped by the outbreak of World War II . In the subsequent replacement competitions he ran three more times for Southend, before the end of the year he returned to Scotland and signed a contract with Third Lanark in early December 1939 . Regular play was also paused in Scotland, over the next two seasons he made a total of 30 league appearances in substitute competitions before his contract was dissolved again in June 1941 and his professional career came to an end.

After World War II, Black took over the post of trainer at New Stevenston United in 1946 , and in August 1948 he resigned from his positions as coach and committee member of the club. In 1948 he appeared for a benefit team called "Old Crocks" (German Tattergreise) in appearance, in 1950 he played against the "Old Crocks" on the side of the "Lanarkshire Select".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the English National Football Archive (ENFA) , accessed on April 20, 2020
  2. ↑ FOOTBALL CHIRPS. . In: Bellshill Speaker , August 26, 1927, p. 5.  (link subject to charge)
  3. ↑ DISTRICT NEWS. BELLSHILL. . In: Motherwell Times , August 3, 1928, p. 6.  (paid link)
  4. ↑ MORE SCOTS FOR ARSENAL. . In: Shields Daily News , July 1, 1931, p. 6.  (paid link)
  5. ↑ FIVE AGAINST FALKIRK "A." . In: Falkirk Herald , August 26, 1931, p. 14.  (link subject to charge)
  6. ↑ Jeff Harris: Arsenal Who's Who . Independent UK Sports Publications, London 1995, ISBN 1-899429-03-4 , pp. 58 .
  7. ^ Fred Ollier: Arsenal: A Complete Record . Breedon Books, Derby 1995, ISBN 978-1-85983-011-6 , pp. 13 .
  8. ↑ HOW WALSALL WON FAME BY BEATING ARSENAL. FULL BACK'S OFFENCE. . In: Walsall Observer, and South Staffordshire Chronicle , January 21, 1933, p. 15.  (paid link)
  9. ^ Cliff Bastin, Brian Glanville: Cliff Bastin Remembers: The autobiography of Arsenal's greatest outside-left . GCR Books, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-9559211-4-8 , pp. 58 .
  10. ↑ ARGYLE NEW FULL-BACK . In: Western Morning News , January 23, 1933, p. 3.  (link subject to charge)
  11. ↑ ARSENAL TO PLYMOUTH . In: Daily Herald , January 23, 1933, p. 14.  (link with costs)
  12. ↑ STILL AT HIGHBURY. . In: Dundee Courier , February 2, 1933, p. 9.  (link with costs)
  13. ↑ SPORTING CHATTER . In: The People , February 5, 1933, p. 17.  (paid link)
  14. ↑ ARGYLE'S NEW BACK . In: Western Morning News , March 7, 1933, p. 10.  (link with costs)
  15. ↑ greensonscreen.co.uk: TOMMY BLACK , accessed August 4, 2019
  16. ↑ Tom Black, Southend . In: Daily Record , June 29, 1939, p. 31.  (link with costs)
  17. ↑ Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939-45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X , pp. 412 .
  18. ^ Thirds Sign An Anglo-Scot Back . In: Daily Record , July 1, 1931, p. 19.  (paid link)
  19. ↑ See John Litster: A record of pre-war Scottish League players v2 (CD Rom), PM Publications, Norwich 2012
  20. ↑ FOOTBALL NOTES . In: Motherwell Times , February 15, 1946, p. 6.  (paid link)
  21. ↑ TOM BLACK RESIGNS . In: Motherwell Times , August 13, 1948, p. 13.  (paid link)
  22. ↑ THE BENEFIT MATCH. . In: Bellshill Speaker , April 16, 1948, p. 2.  (link subject to charge)
  23. ↑ ATTRACTIONS AT THE BRANDON. . In: Bellshill Speaker , June 30, 1950, p. 3.  (link subject to charge)
personal data
SURNAME Black, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Black, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Holytown
DATE OF DEATH 1993