Joe Payne (footballer)

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Joe Payne
Full name	Joseph Payne
Date of birth	17 January 1914(1914-01-17)
Place of birth	Brimington Common, Chesterfield, England
Date of death	22 April 1975(1975-04-22)
Playing position	Centre forward
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1934-1938 1938-1945 1946	Biggleswade Town Luton Town Chelsea West Ham United	72 (83) 36 (21) 10 0(6)
National team
1937	England	01 0(2)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Joseph Payne (born 17 January 1914 in Brimington Common near Chesterfield, England, died 22 April 1975) was an English international football player.

[edit] Playing career

Payne was spotted playing as a centre forward for Bolsover Colliery and signed by Luton Town where he was assigned to the Luton farm team, Biggleswade Town, as a wing half. Due to injuries to other team members Payne was played at centre forward for Luton Town on Easter Monday 1936 in a match against Bristol Rovers and scored 10 goals in that game, an English record to this day. The following season he scored a record 55 goals as the Hatters won the Division 3 (South) championship. In 1937 he made his only appearance for England scoring two goals in the 8-0 victory over Finland. A year later he was bought by Chelsea for a large fee but his career was then interrupted by the second world war.

Payne was also a fine cricketer playing for Luton Town Cricket Club and representing Bedfordshire

A plaque commemorating Payne, who died on 22 April 1975, aged 61, is affixed to the outside of the Miner's Arms public house in Brimington Common, Derbyshire, adjacent the site of the house, now demolished, where he used to live. Payne was often referred to as ‘Ten Goal Payne’, due to his record-breaking feat of scoring 10 goals in one game (see above). A full account of this can be found in the article 'Payne, Joe: Ten Goal Payne by Peter Seddon