Stan Clements

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playername = Stan Clements


fullname = Stanley Finlay Thomas Clements
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dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1923|6|25|df=y
cityofbirth = Portsmouth
countryofbirth = England
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position = Centre back
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years = 1944-1955
clubs = Southampton
caps(goals) = 116 (1)
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Stanley Finlay Thomas (Stan) Clements, born Portsmouth 25 June 1923 is a retired footballer who played most of his professional career for Southampton F.C.

He was formerly a mechanical engineer in Portsmouth's naval dockyards, and joined Southampton from Gosport Borough in July 1944.

He made his league debut on 24 May 1947 in the 2-0 home victory over Fulham. He was a strong, powerful centre-half and replaced Eric Webber for 13 games in the following season when Webber was rested. Once Webber regained his place in the team, Clements made no further first-team appearances until February 1951. For the following few seasons he alternated at centre-back with Len Wilkins and Henry Horton and had a spell as team captain in 1952-53.

He scored once in 116 league games before becoming player-coach at Basingstoke Town in February 1955.

After leaving football, he qualified as a civil engineer and worked in Kenya, Uganda and Sudan, before briefly helping to coach the Kenyan national team.

He returned to the UK in the mid-1980s and now lives in Gosport.

References

*cite book | author=Duncan Holley & Gary Chalk | title=In That Number - A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC | publisher=Hagiology | year=2003|pages=p.496| isbn=0-9534474-3-X