Trevor Storton

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Trevor Storton
Personnel
Surname Trevor George Storton
birthday November 26, 1949
place of birth Keighley ,  England
date of death March 23, 2011
Place of death Bradford ,  England
position Central defender
Juniors
Years station
Tranmere Rovers
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1967-1972 Tranmere Rovers 118 ( 09)
1972-1974 Liverpool FC 5 ( 00)
1974-1984 Chester FC / Chester City 396 (17)
1984 Telford United 2 ( 00)
1984-1986 Oswestry Town
1986-1989 Telford United 95 ( 00)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1983-1984 Chester City (interim)
1997-2004 Bradford Park Avenue
1 Only league games are given.

Trevor George Storton (born November 26, 1949 in Keighley , † March 23, 2011 in Bradford ) was an English football player and coach . Trained as a central defender at Tranmere Rovers , he was known after an interlude at Liverpool FC as a long-time player for Chester FC (later "Chester City") in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Athletic career

At the side of his brother Stan , who was almost eleven years older than him , Trevor Storton began his career as a professional footballer with the third division team Tranmere Rovers in October 1967 after completing school. The following month he completed his first two league appearances against Reading (1: 2) as a right full-back and two days later in the center of defense against Swindon Town (1: 3). In central defense, he won a regular place from the following season 1968/69 from the end of September 1968 and in October of the same year he was on the field for the first time with his brother. From then on, with the exception of a long break between December 1969 and September 1970, he remained a constant in the team. Especially in the 1971/72 season he also played in much more offensive roles and with six league goals he was the team's second top scorer. His performance caught Bill Shankly , coach of the nearby first division club Liverpool FC . Shankly was looking for new talent to help him rebuild, so a transfer deal was agreed in August 1972 for a transfer fee of £ 25,000.

Shortly after his engagement, Storton made his competitive debut for the "Reds" in the UEFA Cup second leg at Eintracht Frankfurt (0-0) by substituting for Tommy Smith . Four days later the successful league debut against Leeds United (2-1) followed, but the future probation chances were henceforth rare. Although he continued to be used in the early European Cups that laid the foundation for the eventual title win, it was obvious that he did not meet Shankly's requirements and could not prevail against competitors such as Larry Lloyd and Emlyn Hughes . By the end of the 1973/74 season he played only four more championship games and in July 1974 he moved three divisions lower to the fourth division FC Chester . However, Storton did not classify his time in Liverpool as "lost" later, as he said he benefited from the experience of teammate and left-back Ronnie Moran .

From the start, Storton turned out to be a stroke of luck for Chester. He missed only one of 46 league games in the 1974/75 season, plus a 3-0 victory in the league cup against reigning champions Leeds United . In the end, after he was promoted to third division, he was voted “best player” by his own supporters as well as by the PFA players' union in the team of the season . In a total of ten years for the club, which in 1983 - one year after relegation to the fourth division - renamed "Chester City", Storton was a constant and during this time he remained largely injury-free. He played a total of 396 championship games and missed Ray Gill's record by just ten games - in all competitions he made 468 competitive appearances. In November 1983 he briefly slipped into the coaching role after the departure of John Sainty , but after only two months John McGrath followed him as the new "permanent solution". Storton later found the circumstance very unfortunate that he had not been given more time for development with only moderate player material and already in the following month he left his long-term club a little in strife.

The next longer station was from 1985 the Welsh club Oswestry Town , playing in the Northern Premier League , where he met his former Chester teammate Stuart Mason . There Storton also had a short period as head coach before he ended up in the Conference National to Telford United in the 1986/87 season . With Telford he moved into the final of the FA Trophy twice in a row in 1988 and 1989 and after a defeat against FC Enfield he won the second attempt at Wembley against Macclesfield Town . He was the team captain for a long time and played in Telford until he was just under 40.

Next station was the FC Chorley , for which he worked first as an assistant and later as head coach, before he returned to Yorkshire and held another coaching position at Frickley Athletic . Between 1997 and 2004 he was a successful coach of Bradford Park Avenue with two ascents . This was followed by a number of other engagements at lower class clubs at the side of Neil Parsley and a work under Neil Aspin for Harrogate Town . Aspin then signed him in June 2009 on his follow-up job for FC Halifax Town .

While under contract in Halifax, Storton was diagnosed with cancer and died on March 23, 2011 of complications from his illness.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ barryhugmansfootballers.com: Profile Trevor Storton , accessed June 29, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Storton, Trevor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Storton, Trevor George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Keighley
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 2011
Place of death Bradford