Jimmy Seed

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Jimmy Seed
Personal information
Full name James Marshall Seed
Date of birth 25 March 1895(1895-03-25)
Place of birth    Blackhill, England
Date of death    July 1966 (aged 71)
Playing position Inside forward
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1920–1926
1926–19??		 Tottenham Hotspur
Sheffield Wednesday		 229 (64)
00? 0(?)   
National team
1921–1925 England 005 0(1)
Teams managed
1931–1933
1933–1956
1958–1959		 Clapton Orient
Charlton Athletic
Millwall

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

James Marshall "Jimmy" Seed (born Blackhill, Consett 25 March 1895, died July 1966) was an English footballer and football manager.

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[edit] Playing career

Seed enjoyed a successful playing career with Tottenham Hotspur, Sheffield Wednesday and England. Seed won the FA Cup with Spurs in 1921, and then captained Wednesday to the Football League title in 1929 and 1930.[1] He also made five appearances for England, scoring once, between 1921 and 1925.

[edit] Managerial career

Seed began his managerial career with Clapton Orient (now called Leyton Orient) in 1931, before resigning in order to join Charlton Athletic in 1933. Between 1934 and 1936 he led Charlton to successive promotions from the Third Division to the First Division. In Charlton's first season in the top-flight, they finished runners-up behind Manchester City in 1937. They finished third and fourth in the final two seasons before the outbreak of the Second World War.

He led the team into a variety of regional competitions set up during the war and Charlton reached a Wembley final for the first time in 1943. They were beaten 7–1 by Arsenal in the War Cup. They were more successful in 1944, when captain Don Welsh lifted the trophy following a 3–1 triumph over Chelsea.

They contested the first two post-war FA Cup Finals at Wembley, which were noted for the ball bursting on both occasions. They were well beaten 4–1 by Derby County in 1946, but a Chris Duffy goal beat Burnley 1–0 in 1947.

Despite the revenues generated by very large home attendances, Charlton wouldn't allow Seed to invest in new players (he 'discovered' Stanley Matthews but wasn't allowed to sign him)[2] and so The Addicks were unable to repeat their pre-war success in the First Division, finishing no higher than ninth in the initial six seasons after the conflict. They narrowly missed relegation in 1949–50 with a 20th position finish, but they finished fifth in 1952–53. Following two bottom-half-of-the-table finishes, Seed endured a dreadful start to the 1956–57 season, losing their first five matches, before being asked for his resignation in September 1956.

He later became an advisor at Bristol City in 1957, before managing Millwall for eighteen months. He then became a director of Millwall until his death in July 1966, aged 71.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sheffield Wednesday Football Club - History. Retrieved on 2007-11-20.
  2. ^ Clayton, Paul (2001). The Essential History of Charlton Athletic. Headline Book Publishing, p62. ISBN 0755310209. 

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Charlton Athletic F.C. – Managers

Rayner (1920–25) • MacFarlane (1925–28) • Lindon (1928) • MacFarlane (1928–32) • Lindon (1932–33) • Seed (1933–56) • Trotter (1956–61) • Hill (1961–65) • Stokoe (1965–67) • Firmani (1967–70) • Foley (1970–74) • Nelson (1974–80) • Bailey (1980–81) • Mullery (1981–82) • Craggs (1982) • Lawrence (1982–91) • Curbishley and Gritt (1991–95) • Curbishley (1995–2006) • Dowie (2006) • Reed (2006) • Pardew (2006–)
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