Charlie Wayman
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| Charlie Wayman | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Charles Wayman | |
| Date of birth | 16 May 1922 | |
| Place of birth | Bishop Auckland, England | |
| Date of death | 26 February 2006 (aged 83) | |
| Playing position | Striker | |
| Senior career1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1946-1947 1947-1950 1950-1954 1954-1956 1956-1958 |
Newcastle United Southampton Preston North End Middlesbrough Darlington |
47 (32) 100 (73) 157 (105) 55 (31) 23 (14) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Charles Wayman (16 May 1922 – 26 February 2006) was an English footballer.
Wayman, who was born in Chilton, was a prolific centre-forward in the first decade after the Second World War. Newcastle United signed him from Spennymoor United in September 1941, while he was working as a miner at Chilton Colliery. He later formed a great partnership with Ted Bates at Southampton. In total, he played for five Football League clubs between 1941 and 1958. A knee injury forced his retirement from league football. He later coached Evenwood Town and became a sales manager for the Scottish and Newcastle brewery.
His brother, Frank, was also a professional footballer.
Born in Bishop Auckland, Wayman began his working life down the mines, played for the colliery team and non-league Spennymoor United and then, after a trial, signed for Newcastle in 1941. He played in unofficial matches for them during the war, while serving in the navy. When the red-headed Albert Stubbins, an altogether larger centre-forward, left Newcastle United for Liverpool at the end of the 1945-46 season, it was Wayman, only 5ft 6ins and 10st 12lbs, who took his place. Quick both in movement and anticipation - a lethal finisher and accomplished ball player - he was instantly effective, scoring four hat-tricks that season. One of them was in the 4th round of the FA Cup, against Southampton, helping Newcastle to win 3-1 after the Saints had taken the lead. Wayman scored 34 goals that season. But Newcastle United in those days were a club continually in chaos (nothing changes), and when they illogically dropped Wayman from their semi-final team against Charlton Athletic (who proceeded to win 4-0), Wayman not surprisingly requested a transfer; Southampton were the beneficiaries in October 1947. Saints Manager, Bill Dodgin, who was known for his persuasive personality, offered Wayman a “strawberries and cream” lifestyle and the deal was done. Over the next two and a half seasons, Wayman displayed an exhibition of finishing skills of the very top order. He remains the only Saints player to hit 5 league goals in a game (v Leicester, October ’48) and in the same season scored 32 times in 37 matches in finishing the league’s top scorer. Saints had a fine campaign in 1948-49 and were well set for promotion when they travelled to Spurs. Prior to the game, Saints led Division 2 by six points with a handful of games remaining. A crowd of 69,000 (including an estimated 15,000 up from Southampton) packed White Hart Lane. With the game goalless Saints suffered a blow when Charlie Wayman tore a thigh muscle and had to play on the wing as a virtual passenger (no subs in those days). Saints continued to press with Ted Bates hitting the post. Then with just eight minutes remaining, the same player ran at the Spurs defence, Bates passed to Wayman whose shot was parried by Ditchburn. He made no mistake with the rebound. Years later Wayman recalled the moment in the ‘Daily Mirror’ entitled ‘My Greatest Goal’. “I don’t know how I got to that ball… I hit it and it came back of the goalkeeper and I hit it with my other foot – the one that worked….then they carried me off”, he said. Wayman missed the majority of the remaining games and without his firepower Saints went into freefall enabling Fulham and West Brom to overhaul them. Saints also challenged for promotion the following season but missed out, after which Wayman requested a move as his wife had never settled in the South and in September 1950 he moved to Preston. His fine scoring form continued for Preston, helping them to promotion to Division 1 in 1951 and three years later he scored in every round of the FA Cup including the final. He moved to Middlesbrough where he briefly partnered a young Brian Clough and then finished his career at Darlington. He worked as a brewery rep for Scottish and Newcastle and died in 2006.
[edit] References
- Jeremy Wilson (2006). Southampton’s Cult Heroes. Know The Score Books. ISBN 1-905449-01-1.
- Obituary
| Awards | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by George Robledo |
First Division top scorer 1952–53 |
Succeeded by Jimmy Glazzard |
