Joe Ridgway

Joseph Arthur "Joe" Ridgway ( born April 25, 1873 in Chorlton -cum-Hardy, † unknown) was an English footballer. The goalkeeper played in 14 games for the 1890 Newton Heath in the Football League Second Division.

Career

Ridgway played for Manchester West in the Lancashire League, before he came in July 1895 in the Football League Second Division to Newton Heath from the eponymous district of Manchester. As a substitute keeper behind Billy Douglas Ridgway played in the season 1895/96 six stakes and demonstrated solid performance. Of injuries limited his already limited operating times in the following years. In February 1896, he broke off in the FA Cup replay at the 1:5 defeat against Derby County in a shootout by Steve Bloomer a finger. Barely seven months later acted Ridgway, who sometimes allowed himself to adventurous excursions outside their door, at the beginning of the 1896/97 season as first-choice goalkeeper of the " Heathens ", but injured his fifth game against Grimsby Town difficult. The club officials committed then as a substitute the Scottish goalkeeper Frank Barrett from Dundee, who was the next four years goalkeeper of the club. Ridgway was only in the 1897/98 season to a further three missions before he left Manchester in December 1901 and moved to Rochdale Town.