Billy Lansdowne

William " Billy" Lansdowne Jr. ( born April 28, 1959 in Epping, Essex ) is a former English footballer.

Career

Lansdowne began his career at West Ham United, where already played his father Bill Landsdowne football. Although he succeeded in October 1979 in the League Cup against Southend United a hat-trick, but ultimately he could not prevail at the club itself. He then moved on to Charlton Athletic. In early 1983, he went to the Third Division for FC Gillingham, after his contract was dissolved at Charlton.

Just a few months later Lansdowne moved to Kalmar FF in the second-class second division in his first season he scored 16 goals this season and thus he helped scorer for his club season victory and after the subsequent success against Djurgårdens IF to a rebirth in the Allsvenskan. In the first division he formed with Peter Karlsson, who was signed by Åtvidabergs FF, the strike partnership of the Association. In the first year were the two as the entire team - it reach 17 goals in 22 games - rather harmless, 1985, the two with ten goals along with Sören Börjesson Örgryte IS scorer in Allsvenskan. Thus, the team reached the championship finals, in which they failed because of the later master Örgryte IS in the semifinals after two defeats. In the following season the club was relegated as a table next to last, but Lansdowne remained the club in the second division a season faithfully and ended there in 1988 his career.

In the season breaks the Swedish League Lansdowne returned several times to England and played for the amateur club FC Dagenham, peak of his stays there was the arrival in the third round of the FA Cup in 1984/85.

After the end of his career Lansdowne worked as a television commentator for Swedish television. For TV 4 he commented, for example, along with Peppe Eng Premier League matches on the show Tipslördag or the World Cup 1998. Moreover, he was football expert at Viasat and commented Greyhound racing for TV3.

West Ham United F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Redbridge Forest F.C. Southend United F.C. Football League Third Division Superettan TV3 (Viasat) 1924–25 Allsvenskan Filip Johansson 1925–26 Allsvenskan Carl-Erik Holmberg 1926–27 Allsvenskan 1927–28 Allsvenskan 1928–29 Allsvenskan Harry Lundahl 1929–30 Allsvenskan 1930–31 Allsvenskan 1931–32 Allsvenskan 1932–33 Allsvenskan 1933–34 Allsvenskan Sven Jonasson 1934–35 Allsvenskan Harry Andersson 1935–36 Allsvenskan 1936–37 Allsvenskan 1937–38 Allsvenskan 1938–39 Allsvenskan Erik Persson 1939–40 Allsvenskan 1940–41 Allsvenskan 1941–42 Allsvenskan Sven Jacobsson 1942–43 Allsvenskan Gunnar Nordahl 1943–44 Allsvenskan 1944–45 Allsvenskan 1945–46 Allsvenskan 1946–47 Allsvenskan Gunnar Gren 1947–48 Allsvenskan 1948–49 Allsvenskan 1949–50 Allsvenskan Ingvar Rydell 1950–51 Allsvenskan 1951–52 Allsvenskan Karl-Alfred Jacobsson 1952–53 Allsvenskan 1953–54 Allsvenskan 1954–55 Allsvenskan Kurt Hamrin 1955–56 Allsvenskan Sylve Bengtsson 1956–57 Allsvenskan Harry Bild 1957–58 Allsvenskan Bertil Johansson 1959 Allsvenskan 1960 Allsvenskan 1961 Allsvenskan 1962 Allsvenskan 1963 Allsvenskan Bo Larsson 1964 Allsvenskan 1965 Allsvenskan 1966 Allsvenskan Ove Kindvall 1967 Allsvenskan Dag Szepanski 1968 Allsvenskan 1969 Allsvenskan Reine Almqvist 1970 Allsvenskan 1971 Allsvenskan Roland Sandberg 1972 Allsvenskan 1973 Allsvenskan Jan Mattsson 1974 Allsvenskan 1975 Allsvenskan 1976 Allsvenskan Rutger Backe 1977 Allsvenskan Mats Aronsson 1978 Allsvenskan Tommy Berggren 1979 Allsvenskan 1980 Allsvenskan 1981 Allsvenskan 1982 Allsvenskan Dan Corneliusson 1983 Allsvenskan 1984 Allsvenskan 1985 Allsvenskan 1986 Allsvenskan 1987 Allsvenskan Lars Larsson (footballer) 1988 Allsvenskan Martin Dahlin 1989 Allsvenskan 1990 Allsvenskan 1991 Allsvenskan Kennet Andersson 1992 Allsvenskan 1993 Allsvenskan Henrik Bertilsson Mats Lilienberg 1994 Allsvenskan Niclas Kindvall 1995 Allsvenskan Niklas Skoog 1996 Allsvenskan Andreas Andersson 1997 Allsvenskan Dan Sahlin 1998 Allsvenskan Arild Stavrum 1999 Allsvenskan 2000 Allsvenskan 2001 Allsvenskan 2002 Allsvenskan 2003 Allsvenskan 2004 Allsvenskan Markus Rosenberg 2005 Allsvenskan 2006 Allsvenskan 2007 Allsvenskan Marcus Berg 2008 Allsvenskan 2009 Allsvenskan 2010 Allsvenskan Alexander Gerndt 2011 Allsvenskan 2012 Allsvenskan Abdul Majeed Waris 2013 Allsvenskan Imad Khalili

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