Schlosser- 59 international goals

Schlosser Imre (Imre Schlosser-Lakatos)

A 21 year international career is in itself a remarkable achievement (in the pre 1937 era only Billy Meredith and Billy McCracken exceeded Schlosser).Only Anel Romano of Uruguay (69) played in more internationals during this era.  Schlosser's 59 international goals in 68 matches gives him a strike rate amongst the best ever (0.87 per match).

	Date					Venue	Schlosser	Total
1	07.10.06	Bohemia	4	4	Hungary	Praguea
2	04.11.06	Hungary	3	1	Austria	Budapestb	1	1
3	07.04.07	Hungary	5	2	Bohemia	Budapestb
4	05.05.07	Austria	3	1	Hungary	Vienna c
5	06.10.07	Bohemia	5	3	Hungary	Praguea
6	03.11.07	Hungary	4	1	Austria	Budapestb
7	05.04.08	Hungary	5	2	Bohemia	Budapestb	2	3
8	03.05.08	Austria	4	0	Hungary	Vienna d
9	10.06.08	Hungary	0	7	England	Budapestb
10	01.11.08	Hungary	5	3	Austria	Budapestb	2*	5
11	04.04.09	Hungary	3	3	Germany	Budapestb	1	6
12	02.05.09	Austria	3	4	Hungary	Viennae	3	9
13	30.05.09	Hungary	1	1	Austria	Budapestb
14	31.05.09	Hungary	2	8	England	Budapestb	1	10
15	07.11.09	Hungary	2	2	Austria	Budapestb	2	12
16	01.05.10	Austria	2	1	Hungary	Vienna d
17	26.05.10	Hungary	6	1	Italy	Budapestb	2	14
18	06.11.10	Hungary	3	0	Austria	Budapestb
19	01.01.11	France	0	3	Hungary	Paris f	3	17
20	06.01.11	Italy	0	1	Hungary	Milan g	1	18
21	08.01.11	Switzerland	2	0	Hungary	Zurich h
22	07.05.11	Austria	3	1	Hungary	Vienna d
23	29.10.11	Hungary	9	0	Switzerland	Budapestb	6	24
24	05.11.11	Hungary	2	0	Austria	Vienna d		25
25	17.12.11	Germany	1	4	Hungary	Munichj	2	26
26	14.04.12	Hungary	4	4	Germany	Budapesti	1	27
27	05.05.12	Austria	1	1	Hungary	Vienna d
28	20.06.12	Sweden	2	2	Hungary	Gothenburgk
29	23.06.12	Norway	0	6	Hungary	OsloL	2	29
30	30.06.12	Hungary	0	7	England Am.	Stockholmm
31	03.07.12	Hungary	3	1	Germany	Solnan	3	32
32	05.07.12	Hungary	3	0	Austria	Solna n	1	33
33	12.07.12	Russia	0	9	Hungary	Moscowo	2	35
34	14.07.12	Russia	0	12	Hungary	Moscowo	5	40
35	03.11.12	Hungary	4	0	Austria	Budapesti	2	42
36	27.04.13	Austria	1	4	Hungary	Viennap
37	18.05.13	Hungary	2	0	Sweden	Budapesti	1	43
38	26.10.13	Hungary	4	3	Austria	BudapestQ
39	31.05.14	Hungary	5	1	France	Budapesti
40	19.06.14	Sweden	1	5	Hungary	Solna n	1	44
41	21.06.14	Sweden	1	1	Hungary	Solna n	1	45
42	04.10.14	Hungary	2	2	Austria	Budapesti	1	46
43	08.11.14	Austria	1	2	Hungary	Viennap
44	05.05.15	Hungary	2	5	Austria	BudapestQ
45	30.05.15	Austria	1	2	Hungary	Viennap	1	47
46	03.10.15	Austria	4	2	Hungary	Viennap	1	48
47	07.11.15	Hungary	6	2	Austria	Budapesti
48	04.06.16	Hungary	2	1	Austria	BudapestQ	1	49
49	01.10.16	Hungary	2	3	Austria	Budapesti
50	05.11.16	Austria	3	3	Hungary	Viennap	1	50
51	06.05.17	Austria	1	1	Hungary	Viennap	1	51
52	03.06.17	Hungary	6	2	Austria	BudapestQ	2	53
53	15.07.17	Austria	1	4	Hungary	Viennap	1	54
54	07.10.17	Hungary	2	1	Austria	Budapesti
55	04.11.17	Austria	1	2	Hungary	Viennap
56	14.04.18	Hungary	2	0	Austria	BudapestQ	1	55
57	12.05.18	Hungary	2	1	Switzerland	BudapestQ	1	56
58	02.06.18	Austria	0	2	Hungary	Viennap	1	57
59	06.10.18	Austria	0	3	Hungary	Viennap
60	09.11.19	Hungary	3	2	Austria	BudapestQ
61	24.10.20	Germany	1	0	Hungary	Berlin R
62	24.04.21	Austria	4	1	Hungary	Vienna S
63	05.06.21	Hungary	3	0	Germany	BudapestQ	1	58
64	06.11.21	Hungary	4	2	Sweden	Budapesti	1	59
65	18.12.21	Hungary	1	0	Poland	BudapestQ
66	06.06.26	Hungary	2	1	Czechoslovakia	Budapesti
67	14.11.26	Hungary	3	1	Sweden	Budapesti
68	10.04.27	Austria	6	0	Hungary	Vienna d

Venues:
a Slavia Stadion	g Arena Civica	n , Råsunda
b Millenáris Sportpálya	h Hardau Velodrome	o  Sokolniki Sports Club
c Rapid Platz	i Üllői úti Stadion	pWAC Platz
d Hohe Warte	j MTV 79 Platz	Q Hungária körúti stadion
e Cricketer Platz	k  Valhalla Idrottsplats	RGrunewaldstadion
f Stade du Cercle Athlétique de Paris	L  Frogner	s Simmeringer
	M Olympiastadion

* Not all sources credit Schlosser with goal 5.
Games 30, 31 and 32 were at The Olympic Games.
 Goals 8 & 9 (game 12) were penalties.

When Schlosser scored his goals:

5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45		50	55	60	65	70	75	80	85	90

Gentlemen and Players

I have been lucky enough to play against nearly all the League teams, and have, therefore, met many professionals. They are a very nice set of men, not only to meet on the football field, but off it. It is quite an exceptional thing to find foul play amongst the leading professional clubs. When you meet second-class professional the case may be different; but the first-class professional rarely descends to shady tricks, and plays the game in the spirit in which it ought to be played.

G.O. Smith 1896

The Association Footballers' Union 1898- 1901

Jack Bell (Everton) -  chairman of the AFU

John Cameron (Everton)- president of the AFU

Now look here, how would any man in business like to have his wages reduced by 25% if his employers could well afford better terms?- John Cameron.

The first Trade Union connected with Association football was founded in February 1898. Given that football was now becoming the Peoples' Game and the majority of players were from proletarian backgrounds, it seems a shame that the AFU wasn't exactly steeped in socialist principles. 

It is often reported that the catalyst for the foundation of the AFU was the introduction of the maximum wage in 1893. However, the maximum wage was proposed in 1893 but did not come into force until 1901. Prominent member Jack Devey (Aston Villa) stated that the AFU were not concerning themselves with wages, and president, John Cameron said that the main objective was to enable players to negotiate transfers, rather than being excluded from the process completely. This was a response to the retain and transfer system, introduced in 1893, that effectively gave the clubs complete control over players, even if they were 'out of contract'. The AFU failed in their attempts to challenge this system, which, incredibly, remained in force until 1963.


By 1901 the situation for professional players had actually worsened. The Football League had introduced a maximum wage and outlawed the payment of bonuses. The maximum wage was fixed at £4 per week- a higher sum than most professionals could hope to earn in the League. On this front the AFU was more of a vehicle for the concerns of star players and Scottish imports who, in a free market, would be commanding wages more in the region of £10 a week. 

In fact 1901 saw the dissolution of the AFU as many of it's more active members had left League clubs to seek employment in the Southern League (which had no wage cap and at the time didn't recognise the retain and transfer system).
Neither the Football Association nor the Football League recognized the Association Footballers' Union.

Club Atlético Argentino de Quilmes

1903

In Quilmes, Buenos Aires, during the latter part of the 1890s there was a group of footballers who called themselves El Relámpago (Lightning). The local football club was Quilmes Atlético Club, founded in 1887 by English residents. As native born Argentinians the Colegio Nacional students who played for El Relámpago were excluded from Quilmes Atlético Club.
 Quilmes Atlético Club, like many other clubs in Argentina, remained the preserve of European incomers. The language of Argentine football was English, and so was the style. 
On December 1st, 1899 the boys who had made up El Relámpago founded Club Argentino de Quilmes. The act of foundation  records that the name Club Atlético Argentino de Quilmes , chosen as a tribute to the Motherland and our People, was proclaimed unanimously.
Argentino de Quilmes was the first club to be formed by native born Argentinians, and as such was the club in which  The notion of fútbol criollo as a distinct style and philosophy of play first found its expression.

Walter Bennett

It was a different world...

Footballers were paid decently enough, but for most working class pros the end of their playing days  meant a return to industry. Some made it as coaches and others were set up as publicans, but they were in the minority. In April 1908 Cocky Bennett was killed at  Denaby Main Colliery. 18 months earlier he had been playing for Bristol City in the First Division. 

 He scored 22 goals in 49 matches for Bristol City, helping them to win the Second Division title in 1905-06. 

Bennett had joined Bristol City from Sheffield United. He made 234 appearances for The Blades, scoring 72 goals. During this period United were a consistently strong side, as witnessed by the achievements shown here:

	League	FA Cup
1896–97	Runners up
1897–98	Champions
1898–99
1899–1900	Runners up	Winners
1900–01		Runners up
1901–02		Winners*

*Bennett played in the first match but missed the replay due to injury

Bennett represented England twice in 1901.

Managers

Here are some successful managers pictured during their careers as players.

The player in the centre of the back row of this photograph is Helenio Herrera. The team is Casablanca Roches Noires (1929).  As a manager in the 1950s and 60s he won La Liga 4 times, Serie A 3 times, The Fairs Cup twice, the European Cup twice, the Copa Del Rey twice and the Coppa Italia once. 

The legendary William Shankly of Preston North End. He guided Liverpool to 3 League titles, 2 FA Cups and a UEFA Cup. These figures mean nothing. His solid proletarian ethics and his philosophy of football cemented his place in the folklore of the game.

Guttmann Béla - Known outside Hungary as Bela Guttmann- the silk shirted dancing master who played at the heart of the great Hakoah Vienna side later won titles as a manager in Hungary, Brazil and Portugal ( he also managed clubs in the Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland, Austria, Uruguay, Argentina, Italy and Greece!) . He won the European Cup twice with Benfica, and his parting curse on that club remains potent to this day. 

Sir Matt Busby built 2 great sides at Manchester United, winning the European Cup, 5 League titles and 2 FA Cups. In his playing days he represented Liverpool and Manchester City.

William Pickford-Free Britons have queer ways of enjoying themselves

William Pickford was 17 years old when he watched an Association game between  Blackburn District and Bolton. Formerly a Rugby enthusiast he was captivated by the Asociation game. having relocated from Lancashire to Hampshire he was active in local football administration and also wrote on the  game for the local press. 
Mr Pickford took to refereeing when his playing days with Bournemouth Rovers came to an end.
He was one of the 79 attendees of the March 1893 meeting at which The FA formed the first referees’ society. C.W. Alcock was President and F.J Wall Chairman.
In 1895 the society produced the first edition of The Referees’ Chart, a set of guidelines that elabourated on The Laws of the Game.
Mr Pickford played a leading role in the production of this document.
He held several prominent positions in football; 
He was member of the council of the Football Association, a Vice-President of FIFA and a member of the International Football Association Board. In 1937 he  became president of the Football Association.
How to Referee appeared in 1906. It comnbines an analydis of the Laws of the Game with an outline of the psychological challenges of match control. 
Free Britons have queer ways of enjoying themselves is taken from Mr Pickford's comment advising referees not to be perturbed by the passionate noise of the crowd.

Dubious Histories

Let me say at the outset that I have got absolutely nothing against Stoke City or its supporters.
It's just that their claimed foundation date of 1863 has always struck me as being somewhat spurious. In identifying 1863 as the foundation date historians have contrived to assimilate 2 events separated by 5 years.
I will further anger Stoke fans by presenting evidence that the club formed as Stoke Ramblers in 1868 ceased to exist in 1908 and an entirely new club was formed in its place,



1863

It is an historical fact that football was played in Stoke on February 17th, 1863. It was Shrove Tuesday, and it was reputedly the first time such a spectacle had occured in the town. It was a hybrid  Pre Association version of the game, overseen by Mr John Whitta Thomas, the 37-year-old headmaster of St Peter’s School.
It was Liverpool born Mr Thomas and The Right Reverend Sir Lovelace Tomlinson Stamer who were responsible for introducing football to The Potteries.
Rt.Rev. Stamer was an archetypal Good Victorian, founding schools and other charitable organizations (including a hostel for female ex prisoners). He was also keen on promoting sports.
Accounts published in 1963 suggest that Mr Thomas and other schoolmasters were then responsible for founding a football club.

1868 

The notion that a Charterhouse pupil would be apprenticed to a Staffordshire railway company at the age of 13 is beyond belief. 

In The Book of Football (1906) W.W. Cockbill wrote: Modern football can truly be said to have commenced in 1863, and one of the first clubs that sprang into existence was Stoke, founded by some Old Carthusians – Armand (sic), Bell, Matthews and Philpott.

Armand was In fact, Henry John Almond. Almond, aged 13 in 1863, did not even feature in Charterhouse football until 1867. It was in 1868 that he began his apprenticeship at North Staffordshire Railway Works.

The Field reported in September 1868 : A new club has been formed (in Stoke) for the practice of the Association rules under the charge of H.J. Almond, one of the most prominent performers of the Charterhouse School XI last year.
 Note that they were referred to as a new club. There is no reference to them having being in existence for 5 years in any other guise. The football they were playing in 1868 was still of the most casual nature. 
The connection between 1863 and Almond's club of 1868 is Mr Thomas, who was Stoke Ramblers' first secretary. 
I am not aware of any documentary evidence that John Whitta Thomas had maintained a regular football club in the town between 1863 and 1868.

Stoke dropped the Ramblers from their name and were founding members of the Football League in 1888. 

1908
On 27.03.08 6,000 people saw Stoke lose 1-0 to Leicester Fosse at The Victoria Ground. This was the last League match for the original Stoke club. They finished 10th in Division 2 but resigned from the League due to financial problems. 
An extraordinary meeting on 11.09.08 unanimously carried the proposal that the club be wound up. 
Contemporary press reports consistently refer to the club that was subsequently founded as the new organization. There are also references to the two clubs as separate entities- for example, when the directors of the 'old' club donated £50 to the 'new' club. 
Also the 'new' club would have commenced their Birmingham and District League season before the winding up of the 'old' club was proposed on 11.09.08.
Incidentally, the XI who had faced Fosse in April were all at different clubs when September came around:

	September 1908	Played for ‘new’ Stoke?
Arthur Box	Birmingham
Charlie Burgess	Manchester City
Billy Cope	Oldham Athletic
George Baddeley	West Bromwich Albion
Louis Williams	Bradford City
Albert Sturgess	Sheffield United
Billy Williamson	Crewe Alexandra	1911
Freddie Brown	West Bromwich Albion
Jackie Chalmers	Bristol Rovers
Syd Owen	Burslem Port Vale/ Leicester Fosse	1912
Amos Baddeley	Blackpool	1909

Nottingham Evening Post - 30.07.08

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - 18.07.08

Nottingham Evening Post- 04.09.08

Press reports form 1908 consistently make it clear that the Stoke FC formed that year after the collapse of 'the old club' was considered to be a separate entity.