Pat Flanagan (English footballer)

For the Gaelic footballer, see Pat Flanagan (Gaelic footballer).

Pat Flanagan

Personal information
Full name	John Thomas Flanagan
Date of birth	20 September 1889
Place of birth	Aston, England
Date of death
Place of death	Mingoyo, German East Africa
Height
Position(s)	Inside forward
Youth career
	Stourbridge
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1908–1909	Norwich City
1909–1910	Fulham	11	(1)
1910–1917	Arsenal	114	(28)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Thomas "Pat" Flanagan (20 September 1889–31 August 1917) was an English footballer.

Career

Flanagan played youth football for Stourbridge before joining Norwich City in 1908 and moving to Fulham in 1909. In December 1910 joined Woolwich Arsenal (both clubs being owned by the same man, Sir Henry Norris, at the time). Flanagan made his debut on 11 February 1911 and over the next few seasons played in every forward position.

During the 1912–13 season Flanagan finished joint-top league goalscorer (with Charles Lewis) in the First Division. The next season 1913–14 he finished as Arsenal's top scorer with twelve league goals and one FA Cup goal, in the club's first season at Highbury. In total he had scored 28 goals in 121 league and cup appearances for Arsenal.

Flanagan was dropped by Arsenal at the end of 1914–15 and spent the next two seasons as a bit-part player during the First World War. He retired after an injury in 1917. Flanagan enlisted in the British Army under the Derby Scheme in December 1915, before returning to his reserved occupation of as an artillery shell machinist at the Royal Arsenal. He was mobilised into the Royal Army Service Corps in February 1917 and posted to 816th M.T. Company in German East Africa. Flanagan died of dysentery at the 52nd (Lowland) Casualty Clearing Station in Mingoyo on 31 August 1917.