Stan Montgomery

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Stan Montgomery
Personal information
Full name	Stanley William Montgomery
Date of birth	7 July 1920(1920-07-07)
Place of birth	Silvertown, England
Date of death	5 October 2000 (aged 80)
Place of death	Cardiff, Wales
Playing position	Defender
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
?-1946 1946 1946-1948 1948-1955 1955 1955-1956 1956-? ?-?	Romford Hull City Southend United Cardiff City Worcester City Newport County Llanelli Ton Pentre	00? (?) 005 (0) 096 (7) 231 (4) 00? (?) 009 (0) 00? (?) 00? (?)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Stanley William "Stan" Montgomery (born 7 July 1920 in Silvertown, died 5 October 2000) is a former English professional footballer. He was the son-in-law of 1927 FA Cup winner Jimmy Nelson

[edit] Career

Montgomery began his career playing non-league football for Romford during World War II, also guesting on several occasions for Southend United. Following the end of the war he signed for Hull City but only spent a short period at the club before returing to play at Southend. He remained at the club until 1948 when he joined Cardiff City for a fee of £6,000, on the recommendation of his father-in-law Jimmy Nelson who played for the club in the 1920's.

He made a goalscoring debut for the club against Grimsby Town in January 1949 and played the remaining seventeen matches of the season and went on to miss very few games for the Blubirds over the next seven years and helped them to promotion during the 1951-52 season. He eventually left the club n 1955 and returned to non-league football with Worcester City before finishing is career in Wales with spells at Newport County, Llanelli and Ton Pentre. After his retiremnet he joined Cardiff again to work as a trainer before joining Bristol Rovers as a scout in the South Wales area and later returned to Ninian Park on the request of manager Alan Durban to take charge of the clubs trialists.

As well as being a professional footballer, Montgomery also played cricket for Glamorgan making his debut in 1949 with a total of 117 against Hampshire.^[1]

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Persondata
NAME	Montgomery, Stanley William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Montgomery, Stan
SHORT DESCRIPTION
DATE OF BIRTH	1920-07-7
PLACE OF BIRTH	Silvertown, England
DATE OF DEATH	2000-10-5
PLACE OF DEATH	Cardiff, Wales