Eric Robert Charles BURGESS (1964) Defender
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Eric Robert Charles BURGESS (1964) Defender Born Edgware, Middlesex, 27 October 1944 Watford Career Football League: 3 appearances Début: 1‐1 away draw v Colchester United, Football League Div 3, 31 Mar 1964 Final game: 2‐0 home win v Luton Town, Football League Div 3, 28 Dec 1964 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 2; all competitions 2 Career Path WATFORD (apprentice September 1960, professional June 1962); Torquay United (free July 1965); Plymouth Argyle (free July 1968 until September 1969); Plymouth City; Colchester United (February 1971 after 2 months’ trial); Wealdstone (free July 1972 until career ended by injury April 1975) Football League Career Apps Subs Goals League Status and Final Position 1963/64 WATFORD 1 Football League Division 3 – 3rd of 24 1964/65 WATFORD 2 Football League Division 3 – 9th of 24 1965/66 Torquay United 17 Football League Division 4 – 3rd of 24 (Promoted) 1966/67 Torquay United 27 1 Football League Division 3 – 7th of 24 1967/68 Torquay United 29 Football League Division 3 – 4th of 24 1968/69 Plymouth Argyle 11 1 Football League Division 3 – 5th of 24 1969/70 Plymouth Argyle 3 Football League Division 3 – 17th of 24 1970/71 Colchester United 5 2 1 Football League Division 4 – 6th of 24 1971/72 Colchester United 41 8 Football League Division 4 – 11th of 24 After captaining Middlesex Schools as a cricketer, Eric Burgess became one of Vicarage Road’s first two apprentices. He was a strongly‐built defender whose career was ended by injury, and he later ran his own business in ladies’ fashions and promotional merchandise. His brother Les also played for Watford’s youth team and for Chesham United in the 1967/68 FA Amateur Cup final at Wembley, before becoming a Queens Park Rangers professional, but without making Football League appearances. Known as “Eric”. Birth index OK. With Mel Brisbane, one of the club’s first two apprentices. Reserve for FA Youth XI v AFA Public Schools XI, January 1963. Living in Stanmore in 1993 and running his own business in ladies’ fashions and promotional merchandise. 5 ft 11½ ins. 13 st. R.BURGESS (1897) Full‐back West Herts Career FA Cup: 1 appearance Sole appearance: 4‐7 home defeat v 3rd Grenadier Guards, FA Cup Preliminary Round, 18 Sep 1897 Career Path Royal Artillery; WEST HERTS (1897/98) He made his only appearance immediately after being discharged from the army, lining up at left‐back in that goal‐drenched FA Cup tie. No other visiting team has ever scored seven times in a cup‐tie at Watford, and only one other cup game in the club’s history has produced eleven goals. No trace among ALL the Burgesses in WO 97 at Kew. Have also examined the surviving First World War soldiers’ papers ‐ no trace of him. (Re‐examine all the local papers in the hope of further clues?) Alfred Thomas BURR (1893) Wing‐half Born Watford, Hertfordshire, 7 August 1871 West Herts Career FA Amateur Cup: 2 appearances Début: 6‐2 away win v Norwich Thorpe, FA Amateur Cup 2nd Round, 11 Nov 1893 Final game: 0‐2 away defeat v Ilford, FA Amateur Cup 3rd Round, 2 Dec 1893 Longest run of consecutive appearances: all competitions 2 Career Path Watford Church Institute; WEST HERTS; Melrose Including five friendly matches, he made seven appearances in the club’s first team, all of them as a wing‐half in the 1893/94 season. Alf Burr became better known in the town, however, for the business which he ran in St Albans Road. Known as “Alf”. Birth index OK. Christening record: born 7 Aug 1871. Marriage: =Edith Fanny Tilley at Frogmore 26 Dec 1894 – she died Henley D1958 (79). 1901 census: 147 St Albans Road, Alfred G. [sic] Burr, 29, manager of off beer house & wine & spirit store, b Watford, wife b Devizes, 3 children. 1911 census: 147 St Albans Road, Alfred Thomas Burr, 38, holder of off licence, wife Edith Fanny, b Devizes, 5 children. E.BUSBY (1897) Winger West Herts Career Southern League: 10 appearances (2 goals) Herts Senior Cup: 2 appearances Début: 2-0 home win v Royal Engineers Training Battalion, Chatham, Southern League Div 2, 6 Feb 1897 Final game: 3-3 ‘away’ (but played at Watford) draw v 1st Coldstream Guards, Southern League Div 2, 17 Apr 1897 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Southern League 4; all competitions 5 Career Path Watford St Mary’s; Watford Athletic; WEST HERTS (1896/97) Southern League Career Apps Subs Goals League Status and Final Position 1896/97 WEST HERTS 10 2 Southern League Division 2 – 9th of 13 The regular outside-left for a spell late in 1896/97, he was in the side which won the Herts Senior Cup that season but didn’t get a look-in once the paid men were brought in the following autumn, when professionalism was adopted. During his first- team run the committee instructed the club’s honorary secretary to tell Busby and Dabber Harrison that “.... they should take care not to infringe the offside rule .... “. Death probably Watford D1947, aged 74 – probate nothing. It was minuted in March 1897 that the Hon Sec should write to Busby and Harrison and tell them “they should take care not to infringe the offside rule”. He’s probably Ernest Busby, as in the following censuses: 1881: Ernest, 5, 73 Sotheron Rd, born Watford. 1891: Ernest, 15, billiard marker, 55 Sotheron Rd, born Watford. 1901: Ernest, 25, bootmaker, 70 Sutton Rd, born Watford. 1911: no trace. David BUTLER (1970-1975) Full-back Born Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire, 23 March 1945 Watford Career Football League: 168 appearances (2 goals) FA Cup: 8 appearances (1 goal) Football League Cup: 10 appearances Début: 1-1 away draw v Orient, Football League Div 2, 21 Nov 1970 Final game: 0-3 away defeat v Reading, Football League Div 4, 13 Sep 1975 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 65; all competitions 71 Career Path Stockton; Workington (amateur August 1964, professional November 1964); WATFORD (£12,000 November 1970, assistant trainer-coach when career ended by injury November 1975, first-team trainer close season 1976); also Rickmansworth Town coach (for several years by July 1973); Crystal Palace physiotherapist (September 1979); Queens Park Rangers physiotherapist (by December 1980); Tottenham Hotspur physiotherapist (by March 1990); England joint-physiotherapist (February 1994 until July 1996); Australia scout in Europe (January 1977); Crystal Palace coaching staff (close season 1998 until January 1999); Middlesbrough scout; Tottenham Hotspur scout (by March 2015) Football League Career Apps Subs Goals League Status and Final Position 1964/65 Workington 6 2 Football League Division 3 – 15th of 24 1965/66 Workington 19 1 3 Football League Division 3 – 5th of 24 1966/67 Workington 18 2 Football League Division 3 – 24th of 24 (Relegated) 1967/68 Workington 45 1 Football League Division 4 – 23rd of 24 1968/69 Workington 44 1 Football League Division 4 – 12th of 24 1969/70 Workington 44 Football League Division 4 – 20th of 24 1970/71 Workington 19 1 Football League Division 4 – 10th of 24 1970/71 WATFORD 25 Football League Division 2 – 18th of 22 1971/72 WATFORD 33 Football League Division 2 – 22nd of 22 (Relegated) 1972/73 WATFORD 43 Football League Division 3 – 19th of 24 1973/74 WATFORD 46 1 Football League Division 3 – 7th of 24 1974/75 WATFORD 19 1 Football League Division 3 – 23rd of 24 (Relegated) 1975/76 WATFORD 2 Football League Division 4 – 8th of 24 Replacing the long-established Duncan Welbourne at right-back, Dave Butler was brought to the club by Ken Furphy, who had been his first manager at Workington. He gave consistently good service before a knee injury ended his playing career, but stayed in the game to become a respected physiotherapist who was used by England frequently at youth and later Full international level. He was also appointed as physio for the Rest of the World XI which took part in the Football League’s centenary match at Wembley in August 1987. Known as “Dave”. Birth index OK. Trainer/physiotherapist to England Youth team for a tournament in Monaco, November 1976, in place of Brian Owen, whom Wolves had refused to release. Also with England Youth team (in Canary Isles) October 1977, again in 1978, and again (with Owen) in 1979. Living in Bushey 2009. Address by Apr 2014: 41 Finch Lane, Bushey, WD23 3AJ (0208 950 7606) 5 ft 8 ins. 11 st 5 lbs. Steven BUTLER (1991-1992) Forward Born Birmingham, Warwickshire, 27 January 1962 Representative Honours England Non-League Watford Career Football League: 40+22 appearances (9 goals) FA Cup: 1 appearances Football League Cup: 4+3 appearances Full Members Cup: 1 appearance Anglo-Italian Cup: 1+1 appearances Début: 0-0 away draw v Port Vale, Football League Div 2, 30 Mar 1991 Final game: (as sub) 2-1 home win v Leeds United, Football League Cup 3rd Round, 10 Nov 1992 Longest run of consecutive appearances: Football League 29; all competitions 34 Career Path Army; Combined Services; Windsor & Eton; Wokingham Town (close season 1983); Brentford (December 1984); Maidstone United (loan November 1985, free June 1986); WATFORD (£150,000 March 1991 after brief loan period); AFC Bournemouth (loan December 1992); Cambridge United (£75,000 December 1992); Gillingham (£100,000 December 1995); Peterborough United player-coach (£5,000 October 1998); Stevenage Borough (loan March 1999); Welling United player-coach (June 1999); Gillingham (joint player-coach with A.Hessenthaler July 1999, assistant-manager June 2000); Leicester City first-team coach (July 2000 until October 2001); Maidstone United player-coach (October 2001); Hull City (coach October 2002, non-contract player by August 2004); Ramsgate coach (2007);