Willie Penman (soccer player, 1939)

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Willie Penman
Personnel
Surname William Salmond Thomson Penman
birthday August 7, 1939
place of birth Coaltown of Wemyss ,  Scotland
date of death 22nd December 2017
position Half forward , midfield
Juniors
Years station
Novar Star
St Andrews Swifts
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1960 St Andrews United
1960-1963 Glasgow Rangers 3 0(0)
1963-1966 Newcastle United 63 (18)
1966-1970 Swindon Town 100 (18)
1970-1973 Walsall FC 123 0(6)
1973-1975 Dundalk FC 42 0(5)
1974 Seattle Sounders 13 0(1)
1975-1977 Redditch United
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1973-1974 Cheltenham Town
1 Only league games are given.

William Salmond Thomson "Willie" Penman (born August 7, 1939 in Coaltown of Wemyss , Fife , † December 22, 2017 ) was a Scottish football player . The offensive player played after his professional debut with the Glasgow Rangers from 1963 to 1973 in the English professional leagues 284 games (42 goals) for Newcastle United , Swindon Town and Walsall FC .

Career

Penman worked in the mining industry and played in Scottish junior football for St Andrews United , with whom he won the Scottish Junior Cup in 1960 by a 3-1 final win over the Greenock Juniors . After completing his training as a mechanic , he moved to the Glasgow Rangers in 1960 , where he worked with the reserve team in 1960/61 with fellow players Billy Ritchie , Davie Provan , Bobby King , Ronnie McKinnon , Doug Baillie , Willie Stevenson , Willie Henderson , John Greig , Jim Christie and Bobby Hume won the championship. In the left half-forward position he could not get past Ralph Brand at that time , his only competitive appearances for the first team date from the 1960/61 season , when he was used in three league games between January and April 1961, including a 1: 6 -Defeat to Aberdeen FC .

In April 1963 he switched to the second division club Newcastle United in the north of England for a fee of £ 11,500 . With Newcastle he played under coach Joe Harvey the two following seasons for promotion to the First Division and distinguished himself with regular actions in the opposing penalty area and as a reliable goalscorer. The most important of his 18 league goals in the Newcastle jersey he scored on April 16, 1965, when he scored the opening goal in a 2-0 win against rivals Bolton Wanderers , which secured the promotion to the top class for the team around captain Stan Anderson and the offensive players Trevor Hockey , Pop Robson , Dave Hilley , Ron McGarry , Bobby Cummings , Penman and Alan Suddick ultimately managed to win the second division. In the following first division season Penman did much more difficult against the opposing defenses and only made twelve league appearances.

In September 1966 he was brought to Swindon Town in the Third Division by Danny Williams for a transfer fee of £ 10,000 and was a playmaker in the team for the first two seasons when, among other things, he made it to the round of 16 in the 1966/67 FA Cup , in which one failed only in the second replay at the first division club Nottingham Forest . In the 1968/69 season he came only sporadically to the train and was increasingly used as a substitute when Swindon succeeded as runner-up in the promotion to the Second Division. The highlight of the season, however, was the final of the League Cup 1968/69 against the first division club Arsenal . Penman came on ten minutes before the end of the game and had to watch Bobby Gould equalize for the favorite just before the end of the game. In extra time, however, two goals from Don Rogers ensured the outsider's victory and Swindon Town's first national title win. In the second division season 1969/70 Penman came only to one league and one league cup and left the club unsurprisingly in the summer of 1970.

From Bill Moore he was signed for a transfer fee of £ 6,000 for FC Walsall , where he was a regular in the Third Division for three seasons and played 123 league games. The club saved regularly only just before relegation to the fourth division ; the few highlights were reaching the fourth round of the FA Cup in 1971/72 (1: 2 against Everton ) and a series of 16 unbeaten games at the end of the 1971/72 season , which took the club from 19th to 9th Table place brought.

From his former teammate and coach John Smith he was directed to the Irish first division club Dundalk FC for the 1973/74 season , which strengthened with a large number of English players. Penman only agreed on the condition that he could continue to live in Walsall and only travel to the games. With Dundalk he won the Leinster Senior Cup in 1973/74 and was named Player of the Year by the club's fans. In addition, he took in September 1973 the coaching post at Cheltenham Town , a club from the Southern League and justified this by being able to participate in training units. In Ireland, this double role earned him the dubious nickname "gypsy rover" (German: "Gypsy vagabond"). Cheltenham officials assumed they had recruited him as a player-coach; due to his involvement in Ireland it was not possible to register him as a player. After a season that the club finished in 3rd place, his activity in Cheltenham was over. Despite this double burden, Penman went to the North American Soccer League in the summer break of 1974 , in which he played 13 games for the Seattle Sounders . For Dundalk he was still active in the 1974/75 season and arranged for one of his teammates at Seattle, the US international David D'Errico , for a short interlude at Dundalk. Her conclusion found his career from 1975 at Redditch United in the Southern League, 1976 he won the championship of Division One North with the club and played for at least 1977 for the club. In the late 1970s he was still on the coaching staff of Sutton Town .

After his football career, he earned his living as a sporting goods seller in Walsall and also spent his retirement there.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ chroniclelive.co.uk: Heartfelt tributes paid to former Newcastle United player Willie Penman (December 27, 2017) , accessed December 31, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c Dick Mattick: Swindon Town Football Club: 100 Greats . The History Press, Stroud 2002, ISBN 978-0-7524-2714-0 , pp. 89 .
  3. ^ John Greig: John Greig: My Story . Headline Publishing, London 2005, ISBN 978-0-7553-1354-9 , pp. 39 f .
  4. ^ Bob Ferrier & Robert McElroy: Rangers Player by Player . Hamlyn, London 1998, ISBN 0-600-59495-5 , pp. 63 .
  5. ↑ fitbastats.com: Penman, Willie , accessed on 31 December 2017
  6. ↑ a b nufc.co.uk: Title Winners - 50 Years On (May 5, 2015) , accessed December 31, 2017
  7. ^ Paul Joannou: United - The First 100 Years ... and More: Official History of Newcastle United FC 1882-1995 . Polar Print Group Ltd., Leicester 1995, ISBN 978-1-899538-10-2 , p. 269 .
  8. ^ Paul Joannou: Newcastle United: The Ultimate Who's Who 1881 - 2014 . N Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2014, ISBN 978-0-9568156-1-3 , pp. 226 .
  9. ↑ swindon-town-fc.co.uk: Player Profile - Willie PENMAN , accessed December 31, 2017
  10. ^ Tony Matthews, The Saddlers: The Complete Record of Walsall Football Club . Breedon Books Publishing, Derby 1999, ISBN 978-1-85983-156-4 , pp. 130 .
  11. ↑ a b dundalkfcwhoswho.com: Dundalk FC Who's Who - Willie Penman , accessed December 31, 2017
  12. ↑ a b independent.ie: Dundalk player Penman made Cheltenham boss (Oct. 2, 2013) , accessed December 31, 2017
  13. ↑ ctfchistory.weebly.com: Managers CTFC Managers 1937 - Date , accessed December 31, 2017
  14. ↑ nasljerseys.com: North American Soccer League player - Willie Penman , accessed on 30 December 2017
  15. ^ Sky Blues for Sutton . In: Sports Argus , August 4, 1979, p. 9.  (link subject to charge)
  16. ↑ Now It's up to Joe… . In: Sports Argus , March 19, 1977, p. 11.  (paid link)
personal data
SURNAME Penman, Willie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Penman, William Salmond Thomson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Coaltown of Wemyss
DATE OF DEATH 22nd December 2017