| Ron Suart | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ronald Suart | |
| Date of birth | 1920 | |
| Place of birth | Barrow-in-Furness, England | |
| Playing position | Defender (retired) | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1946-1949 1949-1955 |
Blackpool Blackburn Rovers Career |
103 (0) 176 (0) 279 (0) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1955-1956 1956-1958 1958-1967 1974-1975 |
Wigan Athletic Scunthorpe & Lindsey United Blackpool Chelsea |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Ronald Suart (born in Barrow-in-Furness in 1920) is a former English football player and manager. Barrow-in-Furness is an industrial town and Seaport in Cumbria, England. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered
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Playing days
Suart was a full-back at Blackpool - playing alongside fellow defenders George Farrow and Harry Johnston in a team also including Stanley Matthews and Stan Mortensen - and later Blackburn Rovers (transferring in 1949) before retiring in 1955. In Association football (soccer a defender is a player who tries to prevent the other team from scoring Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 and located in the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. George Henry Farrow ( 4 October 1913 — 1980 was an English professional footballer In the years before during and after World Henry "Harry" Johnston ( 26 September 1919 — 12 October 1973) was an English footballer. Sir Stanley Matthews, CBE ( 1 February 1915 — February 23 2000) was an English football player Stanley Harding Mortensen ( 26 May 1921 — 22 May 1991) commonly referred to as Stan Mortensen, was an English professional Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. Blackpool reached the 1948 FA Cup Final, but he missed it through injury. The 1948 FA Cup Final was contested by Manchester United and Blackpool at Wembley Stadium on 24 April 1948.
Management career
He took over at Wigan Athletic as player-manager and then went to Scunthorpe & Lindsey United in 1956. Wigan Athletic Football Club is a professional football team based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Player-manager is a sports term used to described a manager of a team who is also registered to play for the team Scunthorpe United Football Club are an English Association football team based in the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. After leading the club to promotion as Division Three North champions in 1957-58 he returned to Blackpool, the first ex-Seasider to go back to the club as manager, who were then in the First Division. The Third Division North of The Football League was a level in English association football, which ran parallel to Third Division South from The Football League First Division was the highest division of The Football League between 1993 and 2004 and the highest division of English football overall between
Suart managed to retain Blackpool's place in the top tier for the next eight seasons and reached the League Cup semi-finals in 1962, losing to eventual winners Norwich City. The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup, is an English football competition PLEASE NOTE This section is the introduction Please do not add too much detail here While at Blackpool, he also helped to unearth future England internationals Alan Ball, Ray Charnley, and Emlyn Hughes, though with the abolition of the maximum wage and the new freedom which players had, he was unable to prevent many of his star players moving on. The English national football team represents England in international football and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for football Alan James Ball Jr, MBE (12 May 1945 &ndash 25 April 2007 was an English professional footballer and football club manager Raymond Ogden " Ray " Charnley (born May 29, 1935 in Lancaster Lancashire) is an English former professional Emlyn Walter Hughes, OBE ( 28 August 1947 &ndash 9 November 2004) was an English footballer who captained He resigned in January 1967, four months before Blackpool were relegated to Division Two, and was succeeded by Stan Mortensen. From 1892 until 1992 the Football League Second Division was the second highest division overall in English football.
Suart became assistant manager to Tommy Docherty at Chelsea, where he spent seven years. Thomas Henderson Docherty (born Gorbals, Glasgow on 24 April, 1928) usually known as ' Tommy Docherty' or ' The Doc', is Docherty left the club in October, and Suart briefly became caretaker manager. His services were retained by new manager Dave Sexton. David 'Dave' Sexton (born April 6, 1930 in Islington, London) is a retired English football manager and player He was with the club as they won the FA Cup in 1970 and the in Cup Winners' Cup in 1971, but declined thereafter. The first 1970 FA Cup Final took place on 11 April 1970 at Wembley Stadium and ended 2&ndash2 When Sexton was sacked in October 1974 after a poor start to the season, Suart took charge of the first team. However, he was unable to prevent the club's slide towards relegation and was replaced by Eddie McCreadie the following April. In many Sports leagues around the world (with North American and Australian professional leagues being the most notable exceptions promotion and relegation Edward Graham "Eddie" McCreadie (born 15 April 1940 in Glasgow) is a former Scottish footballer who played at left-back He later became a scout at Wimbledon but, with the club in heavy financial trouble, 82-year-old Suart was released in February 2002. This article refers to the original club from London which existed until 2004
Honours
Scunthorpe & Lindsey United
- Division Three North championship: 1957/58
See also
- Blackpool F.C. season 1958-59
- Blackpool F.C. season 1959-60
- Blackpool F.C. season 1960-61
- Blackpool F.C. season 1961-62
- Blackpool F.C. season 1962-63
- Blackpool F.C. season 1963-64
- Blackpool F.C. season 1964-65
- Blackpool F.C. season 1965-66
- Blackpool F.C. season 1966-67
References
- Calley, Roy (1992). The Third Division North of The Football League was a level in English association football, which ran parallel to Third Division South from Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887-1992. Breedon Books Sport. ISBN 1-873626-07-X.
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