- Percy Fairclough
Percy Fairclough (
1 February 1858 –22 June 1947 ) was an English amateur footballer who made one appearance for England in 1878.Football career
Fairclough was born in in
Mile End , East London and was educated atForest School, Walthamstow , where he played for the school football team.cite book |first=Graham |last= Betts|authorlink= | title=England: Player by player | publisher=Green Umbrella Publishing | year=2006|pages=p.99| isbn=1-905009-63-1]After leaving school, he joined the Old Foresters. In 1878, shortly after his twentieth birthday, he was selected by England for the match at
Hampden Park ,Glasgow against Scotland on2 March . Although England "fielded a side they thought capable of defeating the Scots, ...(they) returned home with a humiliating 7-2 defeat" [cite book |last= Gibbons|first= Philip|authorlink= |title= Association Football in Victorian England - A History of the Game from 1863 to 1900|year= 2001|publisher= Upfront Publishing |pages=p.50 |isbn=1-84426-035-6] , with three of the Scottish goals coming from John McDougall. [ [http://www.englandstats.com/matchreport.php?mid=7 Scotland 7 - England 2; 2 March 1878 (Match summary)] ] Fairclough was described as a "powerful if somewhat ungainly forward" but was never selected to represent his country again.He subsequently joined the Corinthian club, although he does not appear to have actually played for them. [cite book | author=Rob Cavallini| title=Play Up Corinth - A History of the Corinthian Football Club | publisher= Tempus Publishing |pages=p.275 & p.279| year=2007| isbn=0-752444-79-6] He also played representative football for Essex and London.
Life outside football
Fairclough was a partner in a
stockbroking firm and became a member of theLondon Stock Exchange for forty years.He was killed on
22 June 1947 in a road accident at the age of 89. [ [http://www.iffhs.de/?29da15a8da54a85b17291854685fdcdc3bfcdc0aec70aeeda0a602 Brief note on www.iffhs.de] ]References
External links
* [http://www.englandstats.com/playerreport.php?pid=344 England profile on www.englandstats.com]
* [http://www.englandfc.com/Profiles/php/PlayerProfileByName.php?id=347 England profile on www.englandfc.com]
* [http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamPlyrsBios/PlayersF/BioFaircloughP.html Career details on www.englandfootballonline.com]
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