Dickie Watmough

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Dickie Watmough
Personal information
Full name Richard Watmough
Date of birth 1912
Place of birth    Idle, England
Date of death    7 September 1962
Playing position Midfielder
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
–1934
1934–1937
1937–1938		 Bradford City
Blackpool
Preston North End
Total		 094 (24)
100 (31)
020 0(4)
214 (59)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Richard "Dickie" Watmough (1912 – 7 September 1962) was an English professional footballer and cricketer. He played as a midfielder in the former sport.

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[edit] Football

Born in Idle, Bradford, West Yorkshire, Watmough's signed for his hometown in the early 1930s. He went on to make almost one hundred league appearances for the Bantams, scoring 24 goals.

In 1934, he signed for Blackpool. He made his debut for the club on October 13, 1934, ten games into the 1934–35 season, and scored the winning goal in Blackpool's 2–1 victory over Norwich City at Bloomfield Road. He went on to make a further 31 league appearances and score another eight goals.

The following season, 1935–36, under new manager Joe Smith, he made 23 league appearances and scored eight goals. He also scored twice in Blackpool's short FA Cup campaign, netting two goals in a 3–1 victory over Margate in the third round (the round in which they entered the competition).

In 1936–37, Watmough scored thirteen goals in his 31 league appearances, helping the club to a runners-up finishing position and promotion to Division One.

In their first season back in the top flight, 1937–38, Watmough's place came under pressure from Alex Munro, who was signed from Hearts. Watmough made fourteen league appearances and scored two goals before he was sold to arch-rivals Preston North End in early December 1937, in an exchange deal that brought Frank O'Donnell to Blackpool and also took Jim McIntosh to Deepdale. Mowbray's final game for Blackpool was in a single-goal defeat at home to Liverpool on November 27.

At Preston, he won the FA Cup in 1938, at the end of his only season with the club.

[edit] Cricket

Watmough played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club's second XI in the 1932 minor counties championship and was once 12th man for the first XI.[1][2]

[edit] Post-retirement

After retiring, Watmough became a publican in Eccleshall and scouted for Bradford Park Avenue.

He died on September 7, 1962.

[edit] Honours

[edit] Blackpool

[edit] Preston North End

[edit] References

Specific
  1. ^ Watmough. Cricket Archive. Retrieved on 2008-05-31.
  2. ^ Calley, Roy (1992). Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887–1992, p.124
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