Walter Whitehurst

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Walter Whitehurst
Personnel
Surname Walter Whitehurst
birthday June 7, 1934
place of birth Manchester ,  England
date of death January 20, 2012
Place of death Blackpool ,  England
size 170 cm
position External rotor (right)
Juniors
Years station
Ryder Brow Boy's Club
Manchester United
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1952-1956 Manchester United 1 (0)
1956-1960 Chesterfield FC 91 (2)
1960-1961 Crewe Alexandra 3 (1)
1961 Macclesfield FC 3 (0)
1961-1964 AFC Mossley
1964– Ashton United
1 Only league games are given.

Walter Whitehurst (born June 7, 1934 in Manchester , † January 20, 2012 in Blackpool ) was an English football player . He spent most of his professional career in the third division with Chesterfield FC . He had previously played a single mandatory league game in the 1955/56 championship season for Manchester United coached by Matt Busby on September 14, 1955 against Everton (2: 4) .

Athletic career

Whitehurst joined Manchester United - the club from his hometown - coming from the Ryder Brow Boy's Club in his youth (like Roger Byrne two years earlier ) and was part of the professional squad from May 1952. However, the right wing runner failed to make his sporting breakthrough in the following four and a half years and it should only be enough for a single appearance in the first team. In the early stages of the 1955/56 season he represented Jeff Whitefoot once against Everton ( 2-4) , who was quickly replaced by Eddie Colman after his return - "United" won the English championship that season. Whitehurst moved to Chesterfield FC in November 1956 for a transfer fee of £ 900 .

In Chesterfield he spent a good three and a half years and was used regularly in just a little less than 100 league games, where he particularly impressed with his ability to "read the game", whereby he regularly interrupted opposing attacks with good positional play and the offensive with astute passing play drive. On the other hand, the lack of a certain physical presence at a height of 170 cm and 68 kg was viewed critically. In 1958 Whitehurst qualified with Chesterfield as eighth of the table for the new single-track Third Division , after he had only come to 15 missions in the 1959/60 season and the outside runner positions were occupied by Jim Smallwood and Barry Hutchinson in the second half of the season , his contract was on End of season no longer extended.

In July 1960 he hired a league lower at Crewe Alexandra and ended his professional career there after three season assignments. In the amateur field, he was first active in September 1961 for a few weeks at Macclesfield in the Cheshire County League , before playing for league rivals AFC Mossley until 1964 . His football career was continued at Ashton United in the Midland League , where he played with his brother Jim . He died on January 20, 2012 in a Blackpool hospital .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Garth Dykes: The United Alphabet - A Complete Who's Who of Manchester United FC ACL & Polar Publishing Ltd., Leicester 1994, ISBN 0-9514862-6-8 , pp. 400 .
  2. ^ A b Stuart Basson: Lucky Whites and Spireites: Who's Who Chesterfield FC Yore Publications, Harefield 1998, ISBN 978-1-874427-03-2 , pp. 188 .
  3. ^ Ponting, Ivan: Manchester United Player by Player . Hamlyn, London 1998, ISBN 0-600-59496-3 , pp. 43 .
  4. ↑ silkmenarchives.org.uk: MATCH INFORMATION Cheshire League - 1961-62 , accessed June 25, 2017
  5. ↑ silkmenarchives.org.uk: Player Profiles - W , accessed June 25, 2017
  6. ^ "Walter Whitehurst: Obituary" ( Memento from April 21, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (The Gazette (via archive.is))
personal data
SURNAME Whitehurst, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 2012
Place of death Blackpool