Jack Thorogood Explained

Jack Thorogood
Fullname:Jack Thorogood
Height:[1]
Position:Outside left
Birth Date:4 April 1911
Birth Place:Dinnington, England
Death Date:1970 (aged 59)
Death Place:Bridlington, England
Years1:19??–1930
Clubs1:Frickley Colliery
Years2:1930–1934
Caps2:23
Goals2:2
Years3:1934–1939
Clubs3:Millwall
Caps3:75
Goals3:24
Years4:1939
Caps4:0
Goals4:0

Jack Thorogood (4 April 1911 – 1970) was an English professional footballer who scored 26 goals in 98 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham and Millwall.[2] He played as an outside left.

Life and career

Thorogood was born in Dinnington, Yorkshire. He began his football career with Frickley Colliery before joining Birmingham of the Football League First Division in November 1930.[3] He made his debut on 6 December 1930 in a 2–0 win at home to Huddersfield Town, but was unable to dislodge Ernie Curtis from the starting eleven. Even when Curtis left, Thorogood failed to impose himself,[4] and in the 1934 close season he moved to Millwall, where he benefited from regular football to score at a rate of a goal every three games.[3] He scored Millwall's 1000th Football League goal, against Gillingham in 1935–36, and was part of their giant-killing FA Cup team the following season.[5] He signed for Doncaster Rovers shortly before the Second World War, and made guest appearances for several clubs during the war.[3]

After retiring from football Thorogood took up tennis. He won the Doncaster Tennis Cup at least twice and played in the Yorkshire Lawn Tennis Championships.[5]

Thorogood died in Bridlington, Yorkshire, in 1970 at the age of 59.[3]

Notes and References

  1. News: Bright outlooks at Villa Park and St. Andrew's. Birmingham . Evening Despatch . Birmingham . 17 August 1933 . 2 . Newspapers.com.
  2. Book: Joyce, Michael . Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 . SoccerData . Nottingham . 2004 . 259 . 978-1-899468-67-6.
  3. Book: Matthews, Tony . Birmingham City: A Complete Record . 1995 . Breedon Books . Derby . 129 . 978-1-85983-010-9.
  4. Matthews, pp. 173–76.
  5. Web site: Jack of all trades and thoroughly good . Frickley Athletic Museum . 13 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150113145224/http://www.frickleyathleticmuseum.co.uk/jack-thorogood . 13 January 2015 . dead .