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Career statistics edit

Govan edit

Club Season Football League FA Cup Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Plymouth Argyle 1946–47[1] Second 002 00 00 0 002 000
1947–48[1] Second 002 00 00 0 002 000
1948–49[1] Second 002 00 00 0 002 000
1949–50[1] Second 001 00 00 0 001 000
1950–51[1] Third South 035 09 03 1 038 010
1951–52[1] Third South 035 09 01 0 036 009
1952–53[1] Second 033 10 03 2 036 012
Total 110 28 07 3 117 031
Birmingham City 1953–54[2] Second 037 08 02 0 039 008
1954–55[3] Second 037 15 04 1 041 016
1955–56[4] First 036 04 03 0 1 0 039 005
1956–57[5] First 035 24 07 4 2 2 044 030
1957–58[6] First 020 02 00 0 1 0 021 002
Total 165 53 16 5 4 2 185 060
Portsmouth 1957–58[7] First 009 02 02 0 011 002
1958–59[7] First 002 00 00 0 002 000
Total 011 02 02 0 013 002
Plymouth Argyle 1958–59[1] Third 020 06 01 0 021 006
1959–60[1] Second 012 02 00 0 012 002
Total 032 08 01 0 033 008
Career total 318 91 26 8 4 2 348 101

Hall edit

Club Season Football League FA Cup Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Birmingham City 1950–51[8] Second 001 00 00 0 001 000
1951–52[9] Second 006 00 00 0 006 000
1952–53[10] Second 016 00 07 0 023 000
1953–54[11] Second 032 01 02 0 034 001
1954–55[12] Second 032 00 04 0 036 000
1955–56[13] First 038 00 06 0 0 0 044 000
1956–57[14] First 036 00 07 0 1 0 044 000
1957–58[15] First 037 00 01 0 2 0 040 000
1958–59[16] First 029 00 06 0 2 0 037 000
Total 227 1 33 0 5 0 265 001

McNichol quote edit

As a child, I won a national competition in sports writing, about the Albion and Johnny McNichol. I wrote about McNichol mesmerising the opposition – which he did. He was the brains of the team, and had an incredible touch on the ball – he could send players the wrong way with a feint – he was incredibly skilful.

Dick Knight, one-time Brighton & Hove Albion chairman.[17]

1931 cup final edit

Buildup (players)
  • Bham finally safe from relegation on ???
  • Each team to have special badges on kit, Bham with city's coat of arms, Albion with arms of the borough
  • Bradford's injury (put Bradford's importance to team into context, top scorer every year since 1921/2 etc), Cringan injury, Briggs flu
  • Preparation (most went to a "sumptuous" country hotel at Bushey on Tuesday aft, Bradford Cringan and Briggs followed on the Thursday, Liddell not till the Friday evening after work)
  • Cenotaph on the Thursday, then theatre
Buildup (general)
  • Ticket allocation and prices (Standing, 3s and 5s; seats, 7s 6d, 10s 6d, 15s, and 21s)
  • Transport ("nearly 50" special trains ran from Bham; appeal for ppl to buy train tickets in advance)
  • Central League game at Stans on Sat k/o brought fwd to 2.15, after which the second half of the Cup Final to be broadcast in the ground
  • Police called to four separate domestics (!) on Fri night when the man discovered his wife had pawned his best suit expecting to redeem it for church on Sunday without considering he might want it for the cup final (serves him right for spending her housekeeping on a cup final ticket and the train fare to London)
  • People hanging round St Andrews right up to Saturday morning on the offchance of more tickets materialising
Buildup (Wembley)
  • After the game they'd have to clear up and replace equipment for the dog meeting on the same night (!)
  • Radio broadcast to begin at 2.30
Post-match (players)
  • Blues: dinner @ Russell Hotel in London with wives, club officials, civic representatives, survivors of 1886 semi-final etc; coach trip to Brighton on the Sunday; return to Bham on Monday aft, met by Lord Mayor and cheering crowds from station platform up to Vic Square
  • Albion players went to Madame Tussaud's to see the waxworks of both captains, and then some took wives shopping, before train home
  • Bham Mail editorial on Monday praising sportsmanship of both crowd and players, particularly when the Bham goal was wrongly disallowed for offside: "There was no swarming round the official in the clamorous and excited manner so often seen in League games, but just a quiet and philosophic acceptance of the ruling and the position."
Post-match (general)
  • Trains back ran every quarter hour til 5am Sunday, buses running all night to get people home, no trouble: "The sportsmanship of the people is highly commended. In a great local clash, in which one set of supporters had necessarily to face disappointment, there appeared to be no frayed tempers and little evidence of over-indulgence."

1956 cup final edit

A few days before the match, Birmingham were hit by news of the death of club vice-president Bill Camkin, who as managing director during the Second World War had kept the club going while air raids and fire wrecked the ground and destroyed the club's records.[18]

References edit

General
  • {{cite book |last=Adams |first=Duncan |url=http://www.footballgroundguide.com/birmingham_city/ |title=A fan's guide to football grounds: England and Wales |publisher=Ian Allan |location=Hersham |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7110-3268-2}}
  • {{cite book |last=Inglis |first=Simon |authorlink=Simon Inglis |title=Football Grounds of Britain |origyear=1985 |edition=3rd |year=1996 |publisher=CollinsWillow |location=London |isbn=0-00-218426-5}}
  • {{cite book |last=Jawad |first=Hyder |title=Keep Right On: The Official Centenary of St. Andrew's |year=2006 |publisher=Trinity Mirror Sport Media |location=Liverpool |isbn=978-1-9052-6616-6}}
  • {{cite book |last=Joyce |first=Michael |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |publisher=SoccerData (Tony Brown) |location=Nottingham |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-899468-67-6}}
  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Lewis |editor1-first=Peter |title=Keeping right on since 1875. The Official History of Birmingham City Football Club |year=2000 |publisher=Arrow |location=Lytham |isbn=1-900722-12-7}}
  • {{cite book |last=Matthews |first=Tony |title=Birmingham City: A Complete Record |year=1995 |publisher=Breedon Books |location=Derby |isbn=978-1-85983-010-9}}
  • {{cite book |last=Matthews |first=Tony |title=The Encyclopedia of Birmingham City Football Club 1875–2000 |year=2000 |month=October |publisher=Britespot |location=Cradley Heath |isbn=978-0-9539288-0-4}}
  • {{cite book |last=Rippon |first=Anton |title=Gas Masks for Goal Posts. Football in Britain during the Second World War |publisher=Sutton |location=Stroud |year=2005 |isbn=0-7509-4030-1}}
  • [http://web.archive.org/web/20030326141451/http://www.bcfc-archive.freeserve.co.uk/ The Birmingham City FC Archive] (via archive.org)
Specific
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Player: Alex Govan". The Argyle Review. Retrieved 22 January 2009.
  2. ^ Matthews, Complete Record, p. 189.
  3. ^ Matthews, Complete Record, p. 190.
  4. ^ Matthews, Complete Record, pp. 191, 241.
  5. ^ Matthews, Complete Record, pp. 192, 241.
  6. ^ Matthews, Complete Record, pp. 193, 241.
  7. ^ a b "Pompey FC Players – Alex Govan". PompeyRama. Retrieved 25 January 2009.
  8. ^ Matthews, Complete Record, p. 186.
  9. ^ Matthews, Complete Record, p. 187.
  10. ^ Matthews, Complete Record, p. 188.
  11. ^ Matthews, Complete Record, p. 189.
  12. ^ Matthews, Complete Record, p. 190.
  13. ^ Matthews, Complete Record, pp. 191, 241.
  14. ^ Matthews, Complete Record, pp. 192, 241.
  15. ^ Matthews, Complete Record, pp. 193, 241.
  16. ^ Matthews, Complete Record, pp. 194, 241.
  17. ^ Camillin, Paul; Weir, Stewart (2001). The Albion: The First 100 Years of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club. Brighton: Sports Pavilion. ISBN 978-0953204502. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
  18. ^ "Mr. W. A. Camkin". Evening Despatch. Birmingham. 26 April 1956.
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