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Tom
Parker |
Southampton FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 1 D
0 L 0 F 3: A 2
100% successful
1925
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Thomas Robert Parker |
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Birth |
19 November 1897 at Ailsa
Lane, Pear Tree Green, Itchin, Southampton, Hampshire
[registered in
South Stoneham, December 1897]. |
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According to the 1901
census, Thomas is the youngest of five children to Thomas and Mary Jane (née
Robinson). They live on Ailsa Lane, in the Pear Tree Green area of Itchen,
Southampton. His father is a building plasterer. |
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According to the 1911
census, Thomas is attending school, and lives at home with his plasterer
father and mother, and his older brother and sister (and her husband and
son). They live at 6 Heath Road in Sholing. |
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According to the 1921 census, Thomas Robert, is a
shipwright (for the Wright Bros) and is the younger of the two sons still
at home with their parents now at Manor Road in Itchen. |
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Marriage |
to Lorna Louise Gale
[registered in Southampton, December 1921]. They had five children,
Winifred A. (b.1922), Jack T. (b.1925), Frederick John T.
(b.1927), Kenneth D. (b.1928), and Betty M.
(b.1931) |
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According to the London
Electoral Registers, Thomas and
Lorna were living at 9 Haselmere Avenue, Islington, as well as having a
garage in Hornsey Road, in 1932.
According to the 1939 register, Thomas R., a secretary/manager of
Southampton Football Club, and Lorna L. are married and living at Glen
Oaks, on Merdon Avenue in Eastleigh, |
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Death |
1 November 1987
in Basingstoke, aged
90 years 347 days
[registered in Basingstoke, December 1987]. |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Began
his junior career assisting Sholing Rangers FC and also Sholing Athletic
FC, before joining Southern League side, Southampton FC in 1918.
After 246 league appearances and eleven goals,
Parker joined Arsenal FC on 3 March 1926 for a record transfer fee
received, becoming club captain, and retired on 8 March 1933
after 258 league appearances, and he scored seventeen goals. The
majority of his goals were scored from the penalty spot. |
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Club honours |
Football League Division Three
runners-up 1920-21; Division Three South winners
1921-22; Division One runners-up 1925-26, 1931-32
(captain), Champions
(as captain)
1930-31, 1932-33;
FA Cup (all as captain)
runners-up 1926-27, 1931-32,
winners 1929-30;
FA Charity Shield (as captain) winners 1930, 1931; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Played
a record 172 consecutive first team matches for Arsenal, from April 1926. |
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Height/Weight |
5'
10 ",
12st.
6lbs [1927]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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Management
Career |
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Club(s) |
Appointed manager at Norwich City FC on 8 March 1933, with immediate
success. Left Carrow Road to return to Southampton FC as their
secretary/manager on 17 February 1937, effective from 5 March, and
remained their until 3 June 1943, when he severed his connection with the
club, initially for the remainder of the war. Reappointed as Norwich City
FC's manager on 22 April 1955 until March 1957, after which he was
employed as Southampton FC's chief scout. |
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Club honours |
Football League Division
Three (South) winners 1933-34; |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of five who became the 490th
players (491) to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Right-back |
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Only match |
No.
146, 21 May
1925, France 2 England 3, an end-of-season friendly match at
Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes, Paris, aged
27 years
183 days. |
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Major tournaments |
None |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Died eight days
after Jimmy Mullen |
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Beyond England |
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Parker worked in the Southampton
shipyards. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.191. |
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Tom Parker - Career Statistics |
| Squads |
Apps |
comp. apps |
Mins. |
Goals |
goals ave.min |
comp. goals |
Capt. |
Disc. |
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1 |
1 |
0 |
90 |
0 |
0 min |
0 |
none |
none |
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minutes are an approximation, due to the fact that many matches rarely stick to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time for injuries and errors. |
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Tom Parker
- Match Record - All Matches - By
Type of Match |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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Away
- Friendly |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
+1 |
0 |
0 |
3.00 |
2.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
| All |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
+1 |
0 |
0 |
3.00 |
2.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
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Tom Parker
- Match History |
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Club: Southampton F.C. -
1 full cap |
F.A. International Select Committee - 1
full capx
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Age 27 |
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1 |
146 |
21 May 1925 - France 2 England 3,
Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Paris |
Fr |
AW |
Start |
rb |
Notes
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