Tommy Banks (soccer player)

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Tommy Banks
Personnel
Surname Thomas Banks
birthday November 10, 1929
place of birth Farnworth ,  England
size 173 cm
position Defender (left)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1947-1961 Bolton Wanderers 233 (2)
Altrincham FC
Bangor City
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1958 England 6 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas "Tommy" Banks (born November 10, 1929 in Farnworth ) is a former English football player . The rugged defender was in the second half of the 1950s is a constant in the first division club Bolton Wanderers and 1958 winner of the FA Cup . During the 1958 World Cup in Sweden , he was a regular in the English national team when he was used in all four matches.

Athletic career

In his youth, Banks played with a small team called "Partridges" (German: "Partridges") and worked at the same time in a nearby coal mine before signing his first professional contract with the Bolton Wanderers in his home town in October 1947 . The newcomer made his debut in a first division game as a left defender on April 24, 1948, the penultimate game day, against Wolverhampton Wanderers (0-1). However, this was not the starting signal for an imminent future as a regular player and in the following five years he came to only a total of eleven further appearances in championship games. His brother Ralph , who was almost ten years his senior, was one of the competitors he was unable to displace during this period . From the 1953/54 season, Tommy Banks' career finally took off. On the left side of defense, he made a name for himself throughout the league due to his tough duel and often followed his direct opponents into the other half of the game when he lost the ball.

Banks celebrated his greatest successes in the last phase of his membership of the Bolton Wanderers, which lasted until 1961. 1958 marked his career high point, when he first won the FA Cup with Bolton and later found his way to the English senior team . In a certain way, he had “profited” from the 1958 air disaster in Munich , in which the Manchester United team had an accident, in both events . Three months later, Bolton had won the cup final against a clearly decimated Manchester United and places in the English squad for the upcoming 1958 World Cup in Sweden involuntarily became vacant. Banks made his debut for the "Three Lions" fifteen days after the FA Cup victory in Moscow against the Soviet Union (1-1) and shortly afterwards he played all four preliminary round games at the World Cup (including the losing elimination game), including two more matches the selection of the USSR. As unexpected as his sudden path to the English national team, so quickly the subsequent end, when the sixth international match against Northern Ireland (3: 3) in October 1958 was not followed by another appearance. The club career in Bolton continued Banks until 1961 and on February 11, 1961 coach Bill Ridding nominated him against Blackburn Rovers (0-0) for the last time in a competitive game. Syd Farrimond , who was more than ten years his junior , had meanwhile stolen his regular seat.

At the beginning of the 1961/62 season, Banks switched to amateur football for FC Altrincham . There he let his career end in the Cheshire County League as well as later with the League rivals Bangor City from Wales . With Bangor he reached the 1964 final of the Welsh Cup , which was lost to Cardiff City .

After the end of his active career, Banks turned his back on the football industry and later became involved in the construction industry.

Title / Awards

literature

  • Marland, Simon: Bolton Wanderers - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-1-85983-972-0 , pp. 101 .
  • Hayes, Dean P .: England! England! The Complete Who's Who of Players since 1946 . Sutton Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3234-1 , pp. 114 .

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personal data
SURNAME Banks, Tommy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Banks, Thomas (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Farnworth