David Stewart (footballer)
David Steel Stewart ( born March 11, 1947 in Glasgow ) is a former Scottish football goalkeeper. As a substitute goalkeeper from Leeds United to the middle of the 1970s he was mostly in the shade of David Harvey, but then denied in his absence the final at the 1975 European Champion Clubs' Cup, which was lost against Bayern Munich 0-2 in Paris.
Sports career
At a young age Stewart played for several small clubs in his hometown of Glasgow. These included well shot, Shettleston Violet and Kilsyth Rangers - with last named team he even won the 1967 Scottish Junior Cup. He worked as an upholsterer and carpet layers and in winning the Cup, he moved about 60 kilometers to the southwest of the second division side Ayr United. Right away he was playing as a part-time keeper in the coastal town team regular and in his first two seasons, which led to the rise in 1969 in the highest Scottish League, he missed only one of 72 league encounters. In the following four years in the First Division, he established himself as one of the best Scottish goalkeeper and during his time in Ayr, he completed seven caps for the U -23. His strengths, which mainly expressed in good reflexes on, got around and about the Scottish boundary and so settled in October 1973, the English giants Leeds United cost the transfer fee of £ 30,000 for a transfer. He should replace there primarily to the Birmingham City migrated Gary Sprake. In Ayr, he had played 193 league games; 35 years later was his nomination in the "Hall of Fame" of the association.
In around five years until November 1978 Stewart acted mostly as a substitute after regular keeper David Harvey; while he played most games in the reserve team. During the championship season of 1973/74 he was only in three consecutive league games from the end of February 1974 against Leicester City, Newcastle United and Manchester City represent, remained there without defeat, but not thus qualified for the official receipt of the same coin. For a long period as " number 1" He came in the second half of the season 1974/75, after Harvey had injured in a car accident. Here, Stewart was in the decisive phase on the way to the finals in the European Champions Cup between the posts and after performances against RSC Anderlecht (3-0, 1-0) and FC Barcelona ( 2:1, 1:1 ), he denied there on May 28, 1975 against FC Bayern Munich, the most important game in his career. The game at Parc des Princes stadium ended with an unfortunate 0-2 defeat, and thus missed Stewart once again a possible medal. After Harvey's return Stewart came only in March 1977 again regularly to the course and he denied seasonally across 27 league games. In this phase also his only game fell for the Scottish national team and in the 0-1 defeat against East Germany he held on 7 September 1977 in Berlin a penalty. Since his 1977 with the Welsh national team goalkeeper Brian Flynn but grew additional competition in Leeds, his athletic prospects deteriorated. Finally, when Ron Atkinson from Premier League rivals West Bromwich Albion in November 1978 submitted a transfer offer, Stewart moved for 70,000 pounds to " WBA ".
The 15 months for West Bromwich ran sobering, because " life -present " as substitutes man behind the Goddon Tony Stewart did not dispute a single competitive match. So he moved in February 1980 to further Welsh Swansea City, who played in England's second league. In the team of coach John Toshack, which was reinforced with some former Liverpool team-mates, succeeded in 1981 in addition to winning the Welsh Cup promotion to the top division, before Stewart his place to the new commit Dai Davies - again a Welsh international goalkeeper - lost. A particularly bitter note its trunk space loss gave him also the fact that he was allowed to follow the 5-1 victory against former club Leeds passively on the opening day of the 1981/82 season. In July 1982, Stewart moved to Hong Kong and stayed for two years when Ryoden FC, before he ended his active career.
Stewart decided to continue to remain living in South Wales on the outskirts of Swansea and after the operation of an own carpet store he worked for many years as a goldsmith in jewelry industry.
Title / Awards
- Welsh Cup ( 1): 1981
- Scottish Junior Cup ( 1): 1967