Ted Burgin
Edward "Ted" Burgin ( born April 29 1927 in Bradfield ) is a former English football goalkeeper. With approximately 1.70 meters grown quite small, it was at the beginning of the 1950s boasted at Sheffield United because of his agile playing style as "The Cat " and in 1954 nominated as a substitute behind Gil Merrick for the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland in the England squad. There, however, he did not play.
Sports career
Burgin played in post-war England initially only as an amateur footballer for Alford Town before he asked in writing to the first division Sheffield United for a trial. The fact that he was relatively small for a goalkeeper with 1.70 meters, he did not mention and he could then take advantage of the opportunity offered to him nevertheless. In March 1949, he signed with the " Blades" a professional contract and due to its mobility, later nicknamed "The Cat" won him, he conquered from the end of November 1949 a regular place. Until the beginning of the season in 1954/55, he missed only three of 200 league games and in the seasons 1950/51, 1952/53 and 1953/54, he was " present." He helped the team that was relegated shortly after his commitment to the Second Division, winning the second division championship in 1953 to return to the First Division.
As steady " number 1" from Sheffield United to Burgin played in the focus of English selection teams, and in 1951 he traveled with a team of the English Football Association ( FA) of Australia. Even for an A - match against Austria in 1953, he was nominated as a substitute. On a bet, he waited in vain, however, here as well as in the subsequent World Cup in 1954, when he served as collateral for Gil Merrick. Also in the following years he was a senior international denied, so it remained in the two games for the B selection before the World Cup tournament against West Germany (4-0 on the Glückaufkampfbahn in Gelsenkirchen) and Yugoslavia (1:2). The last experiments were limited to the South Africa trip in 1956 with the FA.Zunehmende injury problems and the descent 1956 ensured with Sheffield United that Burgin lost his place between the posts to Alan Hodgkinson, 1957 in the England team celebrated beyond his debut. In December 1957, Burgin finally joined the second division rivals Doncaster Rovers for a fee of £ 3,000.
Staying in Doncaster came to a brief stint. Burgin, who was to replace the Manchester United migrated Harry Gregg, broke after five league games completed collarbone and after his recovery he transferred in exchange for Willie Nimmo to Leeds United. In Leeds he followed to the former main goalkeeper Royden Wood, but the athletic development saw it back in 1960 for a second time a relegation to the second division before. Shortly after coach Jack Taylor replaced him by Alan Humphreys and so parted ways in January 1961. Next stop was the fourth division Rochdale AFC. There Burgin remained until 1966, although only the stage of unterklassigen League football, but with the final collection of 1962 for the second time discharged League Cup, he celebrated a moderate success - in the semifinals his team Blackburn Rovers had defeated it. However, the decisive game against Norwich City went with two defeats; clearly lost ( 0:3 0:1).
As of 1966 Burgin worked as a player-coach for Glossop North End. Subsequent stations were Oswestry Town, Wellington Town and Burton Albion.