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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Fred Pagnam[1][2] | ||
| Date of birth | (1891-09-04)4 September 1891[3] | ||
| Place of birth | Poulton-le-Fylde,Lancashire, England | ||
| Date of death | 1 March 1962(1962-03-01) (aged 70)[4][5] | ||
| Place of death | Samlesbury,[4][5] Lancashire, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[6] | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Birchall BC | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Lytham | |||
| 1909–1910 | Blackpool Wednesday | ||
| 1910–1912 | Huddersfield Town | 0 | (0) |
| 1912 | Doncaster Rovers | ||
| 1912–1913 | Southport Central | ||
| 1913–1914 | Blackpool | 23 | (1) |
| Gainsborough Trinity | |||
| 1914–1919 | Liverpool | 37 | (28) |
| 1919–1921 | Arsenal | 50 | (26) |
| 1921 | Cardiff City | 27 | (8) |
| 1921–1926 | Watford | 144 | (67) |
| Total | 281 | (130) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1926–1929 | Watford | ||
| 1931–1932 | Galatasaray | ||
| 1932 | Turkey | ||
| 1934–1937 | DWV | ||
| 1935 | HVV Den Haag | ||
| 1937–1939 | De Volewijckers | ||
| 1939 | CVV Vriendenschaar | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Fred Pagnam (4 September 1891 – 1 March 1962) was an Englishfootballer andmanager. Pagnam played as aforward in theFootball League for clubsHuddersfield Town,Blackpool,Liverpool,Arsenal,Cardiff City andWatford, and innon-league football forLytham, Blackpool Wednesday,Doncaster Rovers,Southport Central andGainsborough Trinity.[3] As manager, he took charge of Watford,Galatasaray, theTurkey national team, and several clubs in the Netherlands.
Pagnam, the son of a bank manager, was born inPoulton-le-Fylde,Lancashire, where he attendedBaines Grammar School.[1] He played football for Birchall Boys' Club and fornon-league clubsLytham and Blackpool Wednesday before joiningHuddersfield Town in 1910.[1] He played for the reserves but not for the first team, and after a spell withDoncaster Rovers of theMidland League, he joinedSouthport Central ofthe Central League.[3] By early 1913, the club was struggling financially, and the directors offered the players a choice: a wage cut or a free transfer. Pagnam took the latter, and moved on toBlackpool.[7] He scored just once in 23Second Division appearances, spent time with another Midland League team,Gainsborough Trinity,[3] and signed forLiverpool in 1914.[8]
Pagnam scored on his Reds debut, againstChelsea on 10 October 1914, and scored four againstTottenham Hotspur a couple of weeks later. He went on to score 26 goals that season and was Liverpool's top scorer.[8][9]
His time at Liverpool coincided with a conspiracy by some Liverpool players to rig a match withManchester United. This was in order to profit from betting on the result, in what became known as the1915 British football betting scandal. Pagnam refused to take part in the conspiracy and even threatened to score a goal to ruin the prearranged result. United won 2–0 as agreed, but four Liverpool players and three United players were eventually found guilty of match-fixing bythe Football Association, with Pagnam testifying against his teammates.[9][10][11]
The outbreak of theFirst World War meant competitive football was suspended at the end of the1914–15 season. Pagnam continued to play for Liverpool during the war,[8] as well as making guest appearances for teams includingArsenal,Belfast Celtic and Blackpool.[1] When football resumed after hostilities ceased, he played only eight more matches for the club before being sold to Arsenal for a £1,500 fee in October 1919.[8][12]
Pagnam made his Arsenal debut againstBradford City on 25 October 1919. He was moderately prolific in his first season, scoring twelve League goals, althoughHarry White finished higher in the scoring charts. The next season,1920–21, Pagnam finished as Arsenal's top scorer with 14 goals, despite having been sold toCardiff City in March 1921 for £3,000 – Arsenal were quite strapped for cash at the time. In all he scored 27 goals in 53 appearances for Arsenal.[12][13][14]
He lasted just nine months at Cardiff. His six goals from 14 appearances helped them gain promotion to theFirst Division in their first season in the Football League, but he was less successful at the higher level,[15] and moved on toWatford of theThird Division South in December 1921 for a club-record fee of £1,000. In five seasons and 144 league matches, he scored 67 goals (74 from 157 appearances in all competitions) for Watford,[1] and was the Third Division South top scorer in1922–23 with 30 goals.[16]
In 1926, Pagnam became Watford's manager; he spent three years in the job but achieved little. Watford finished 21st out of 22 in his first season but improved to 8th in1928–29.[17] After leaving Watford, he managedGalatasaray and theTurkey national team.[5] Pagnam then coached in the Netherlands atDWV,HVV Den Haag,De Volewijckers,HFC Haarlem and CVV Vriendenschaar.[1][5]
Pagnam served in theRoyal Garrison Artillery and theLondon Regiment during theFirst World War.[18] He was declared adeserter on 20 April 1918.[18] At the outbreak of theSecond World War, he returned to the UK with his Dutch wife to run a pub. Pagnam died in 1962 aged 70.[5]
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