Pat Flanagan (English footballer)
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | John Thomas Flanagan[1] | ||
Date of birth | 20 September 1889 | ||
Place of birth | Aston, England | ||
Date of death | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.[2] | ||
Place of death | Mingoyo, German East Africa[2] | ||
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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.[2] In December 1910 joined Woolwich Arsenal (both clubs being owned by the same man, Sir Henry Norris, at the time).[3] 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.[3] In total he had scored 28 goals in 121 league and cup appearances for Arsenal.[3]
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.[3] 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.[2] He was mobilised into the Royal Army Service Corps in February 1917 and posted to 816th M.T. Company in German East Africa.[2] Flanagan died of dysentery at the 52nd (Lowland) Casualty Clearing Station in Mingoyo on 31 August 1917.[2]
References
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- 1889 births
- Sportspeople from Birmingham, West Midlands
- English footballers
- Norwich City F.C. players
- Fulham F.C. players
- Arsenal F.C. players
- Stourbridge F.C. players
- Association football inside forwards
- The Football League players
- Southern Football League players
- British military personnel of World War I
- British military personnel killed in World War I
- Royal Army Service Corps soldiers
- 1917 deaths