Stan Clements
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Stanley Finlay Thomas Clements | ||
| Date of birth | 25 June 1923 | ||
| Place of birth | Portsmouth, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1944–1955 | Southampton | 116 | (1) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Stanley Finlay Thomas Clements O.B.E. (born Portsmouth 25 June 1923)[1] is a retired footballer who played most of his professional career for Southampton.
He was formerly a mechanical engineer in Portsmouth's naval dockyards, and joined Southampton from Gosport Borough in July 1944.[1]
He made his league debut on 24 May 1947 in the 2–0 home victory over Fulham. He was a strong, powerful centre-half and replaced Eric Webber for 13 games in the following season when Webber was rested. Once Webber regained his place in the team, Clements made no further first-team appearances until February 1951. For the following few seasons he alternated at centre-back with Len Wilkins and Henry Horton and had a spell as team captain in 1952–53.
He scored once in 116 league games before becoming player-coach at Basingstoke Town in February 1955.
After leaving football, he qualified as a civil engineer and worked in Kenya, Uganda and Sudan, before briefly helping to coach the Kenyan national team. In 1981, he was appointed O.B.E. for services to engineering in Africa.[1]
He returned to the UK in the mid-1980s and now lives in Gosport.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 Chalk, Gary; Holley, Duncan; Bull, David (2013). All the Saints: A Complete Players' Who's Who of Southampton FC. Southampton: Hagiology Publishing. pp. 276–277. ISBN 978-0-9926-8640-6.
- ↑ Holley, Duncan; Chalk, Gary (2003). In That Number - A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC. Hagiology Publishing. p. 496. ISBN 0-9534474-3-X.