Tom Bush

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Tom Bush
Personnel
Surname William Thomas Bush
birthday February 22, 1914
place of birth Hodnet ,  England
date of death 20th December 1969
Place of death Liverpool ,  England
position Middle runner , outer runner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1929-1933 Shrewsbury Amateurs
1933-1947 Liverpool FC 61 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

William Thomas "Tom" Bush (born February 22, 1914 in Hodnet , † December 20, 1969 in Liverpool ) was an English football player .

Career

Bush was a center forward for the Shrewsbury Amateurs and scored 50 goals this season for the club before he was signed by first division club Liverpool in March 1933 . In contrast to many of his teammates, he did not come from the working class; his grandfather of the same name ran the Bee Hotel in Liverpool, where numerous football teams stayed and meetings of the Football League were held. In the late 1930s he inherited £ 40,000 from his grandfather. Bush made his debut on December 30, 1933 in a 1-1 draw against Wolverhampton Wanderers in the center-forward position when his opponent Reg Hollingworth "overshadowed" him. A 9-2 defeat on New Years Day 1934 at Newcastle United was his last appearance for over two years.

In October 1936 he returned to the first team, but was meanwhile in the runner row and occupied both the position of the center runner and the left runner . At the beginning of the 1938/39 season he was also called up several times as a left defender , but he could not conquer a permanent regular place despite more than 20 season appearances in the seasons 1937/38 and 1938/39. The outbreak of World War II and the associated cessation of regular game operations in September 1939 interrupted Bush's professional career after 58 league appearances (1 goal) for several years. In the war-related substitute competitions, he played 34 games (1 goal) for Liverpool as a guest player as well as games for Brighton & Hove Albion (1940 / 41-1941 / 42, 3 games / 0 goals), Leeds United (1942/43, 2/0 ) and Fulham (1942/43, 12/0). During the war he served in the British armed forces , in 1940 he rose to the rank of sergeant .

In May 1946 he had to break off a trip to the USA with Liverpool because his nine-month-old daughter became seriously ill and died a few days after his return. Bush played for the last time in the 1946/47 season in professional football, the season ended with Liverpool FC as champions. Bush played three appearances in the course of the season, which was not enough to receive a championship medal.

As a result, he is said to have worked as a trainer in the Netherlands before taking on the youth team and administrative tasks at Liverpool FC, working closely with chief scout Geoff Twentyman in the later course of his 37 years with Liverpool . His proudest moment, he called Liverpool's first FA Cup win in 1965, when Roger Hunt , Ian Callaghan , Gerry Byrne , Tommy Lawrence and Tommy Smith were five players who had been coached by Bush in Liverpool's youth team. Bush owned the desk that had previously been used by Bill Shankly and sold for £ 4,200 at auction. He is also the author of a two-and-a-half-minute color film that was shot in Anfield on May 4, 1965 , and shows scenes from the semi-final first leg of the 1964/65 European Cup against Inter Milan and the FA Cup trophy parade immediately before the game. His son released the footage in August 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Bush in the barryhugmansfootballers.com database. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  2. ^ Sports Snaps . In: Hull Daily Mail , March 10, 1933, p. 1.  (paid link)
  3. ^ Bee's Notes On Sports Of The Day . In: Liverpool Echo , March 9, 1933, p. 10.  (link with costs)
  4. ↑ SURPRISING TEAM SELECTIONS . In: Liverpool Echo , December 29, 1933, p. 10.  (link with costs)
  5. ↑ OLD TIMES AND TIMERS. . In: Liverpool Echo , September 12, 1925, p. 2.  (link with costs)
  6. ↑ £ 40,000 Footballer to Marry Phone Operator . In: Birmingham Daily Gazette , February 13, 1939, p. 4.  (paid link)
  7. ↑ 21 Years' Service . In: Daily Herald , February 13, 1939, p. 18.  (paid link)
  8. ↑ Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939-45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X , pp. 356 f .
  9. ↑ Tim Carder, Roger Harris: Albion A – Z - A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion FC Goldstone Books, Brighton 1997, ISBN 0-9521337-1-7 , pp. 279 .
  10. ↑ Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939-45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X , pp. 350 .
  11. ↑ Jack Rollin: Soccer at War 1939-45 . Headline Book Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 0-7553-1431-X , pp. 334 .
  12. ↑ Promotions . In: Liverpool Evening Express , June 11, 1940, p. 3.  (link with costs)
  13. ↑ Tom Bush Back . In: Daily Herald , May 27, 1946, p. 3.  (link subject to charge)
  14. ↑ Footballer Flew Home, But Duagher Dies . In: Dundee Evening Telegraph , May 30, 1946, p. 8.  (paid link)
  15. ^ Doug Lamming: Who's Who of Liverpool 1892-1989 . Breedon Books, Derby 1989, ISBN 0-907969-55-0 , pp. 27 .
  16. ^ Arnie Baldursson, Gudmundur Magnusson: Liverpool Encyclopedia . De Coubertin Books, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-909245-08-2 , pp. 82 .
  17. ↑ lfchistory.net: Players - Tom Bush , accessed April 28, 2019
  18. ↑ shankly.com: The owner of Bill Shankly's desk , accessed April 28, 2019
  19. ↑ liverpoolecho.co.uk: Amazing unseen color footage emerges of one of Liverpool's greatest ever European nights (August 3, 2017) , accessed April 28, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Bush, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bush, William Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Hodnet
DATE OF DEATH 20th December 1969
Place of death Liverpool