John Love (footballer)

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John Love
Personal information
Full name	John Thomson Love
Date of birth	(1924-03-18)18 March 1924^[1]
Place of birth	Edinburgh, Scotland^[1]
Height	6ft 1ins
Playing position	Inside forward^[1]
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1947–1948	Leith Athletic	19	(5)
1948–1949	Albion Rovers	28	(11)
1949–1952	Nottingham Forest	59	(21)
1952–1954	Llanelli
1954–1956	Walsall	40	(10)
Total		146	(47)
Teams managed
1952–1954	Llanelli (player-manager)
1955–1957	Walsall
1957–1960	Wrexham
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

John Love (born 18 March 1924) was a Scottish football player and manager. He scored 47 goals in 146 league games in the Scottish and English leagues, playing for Leith Athletic, Albion Rovers, Nottingham Forest, and Walsall.^[2] He later managed Llanelli, Walsall, and Wrexham. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service during World War II.

Football career

Love, "a hard inside forward with a strong shot", won a Distinguished Flying Cross after being wounded by shrapnel whilst serving in the Royal Air Force in 1944.^[1]

He started his career at Leith Athletic, and scored five goals in nineteen games during the 1947–48 Second Division, after which Leigh were relegated.^[1] He moved on to Albion Rovers of the First Division, and scored eleven goals in 28 league games in 1948–49.^[1]

He won a move to Nottingham Forest in February 1949, just as the club suffered relegation at the end of 1948–49.^[1] He scored 21 goals in 62 league and cup games for Forest, helping the club win promotion into the Second Division as champions of the Third Division South in 1950–51.^[1] The club missed out on a second successive promotion in 1951–52 by just two points, after which Love moved on to Welsh side Llanelli, where he was appointed player-manager.

Love joined Walsall in March 1955, as the club floundered at the foot of the Third Division South table; he scored twice in sixteen games.^[1] Having successfully applied for re-election, Walsall chose Love to replace the legendary Frank Buckley in September 1955.^[1] Love picked himself for 24 league games, and scored eight goals, in 1955–56, as his side finished twentieth.^[1] He then retired as a player, due to injury, and then managed the "Saddlers" to a fifteenth place finish in 1956–57.^[1]

Love took up the management reigns at Third Division North Wrexham for the 1957–58 campaign. The "Red Dragons" finished twelfth, and lifted the Welsh Cup after victory over Chester City in a replay at the Racecourse Ground. His side founded the newly formed Third Division in 1958–59, and ended the season in eighteenth place. He stepped down at the end of the campaign, and later worked at a number of non-league clubs.^[1]

Honours

Distinguished Flying Cross medal: 1944

with Nottingham Forest

Football League Third Division South champion: 1950–51

with Wrexham

Welsh Cup winner: 1958

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 "Past Managers". saddlers.co.uk. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
↑ Stats neilbrown.newcastlefans.com

Walsall F.C. – managers

Smallwood (1888–91)
Burton (1891–93)
Robinson (1893–95)
Ailso (1895–96)
Parsloe (1896–97)
Ford (1897–98)
Hughes (1898–99)
Ford (1899–1901)
Shutt (1908–12)
Price (1912–15)
Groves (1920–21)
Burchell (1921–26)
Ashworth (1926–27)
Torrance (1927–28)
Kerr (1928–29)
Scholey (1929–30)
O'Rourke (1930–32)
Slade (1932–34)
Wilson (1934–37)
Lowes (1937–44)
Hibbs (1944–51)
McPhee (1951)
Fletcher (1952–53)
Buckley (1953–55)
Love (1955–57)
Moore (1957–64)
Wood (1964)
Shaw (1964–68)
Graham (1968)
Lewin (1968–69)
Moore (1969–72)
Smith (1972–73)
Allen (1973)
Fraser (1974–77)
Mackay (1977–78)
Ashman (1978)
Sibley (1979)
Buckley (1979–82)
Martin (1981–82)
Buckley (1982–86)
Coakley (1986–88)
Barnwell (1989–90)
Hibbitt (1990–94)
Nicholl (1994–97)
Sørensen (1997–98)
Graydon (1998–2002)
Lee (2002–04)
Merson (2004–06)
Halsall (2006)
Broadhurst (2006)
Kinsella (2006)
Money (2006–08)
Mullen (2008–09)
Schofield (2009)
Hutchings (2009–11)
Smith (2011–)

Wrexham F.C. – managers

Robinson (1912–24)
Hewitt (1924–29)
Baynes (1929–31)
Blackburn (1932–37)
Logan (1937–38)
Morgan (1938–40)
Cowell (1938)
Williams (1940–49)
McDowall (1949–50)
Jackson (1950–54)
Lloyd (1954–57)
Love (1957–59)
Lloyd (1959–60)
Morris (1960–61)
Barnes (1961–65)
Morris (1965)
Rowley (1966–67)
Williams (1967–68)
Neal (1968–77)
Griffiths (1977–81)
Sutton (1981–82)
Roberts (1982–85)
McNeil (1985–89)
Flynn (1989–2001)
Jones (2001)
Smith (2001–07)
Carey (2007)
Little (2007–08)
Carey and Foyle (2008)
Saunders (2008–11)
Morrell (2011–)

Persondata
Name	Love, John
Alternative names	Love, Jack
Short description	Footballer
Date of birth	18 March 1924
Place of birth	Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of death
Place of death

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