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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Frederick Spiksley | ||
| Date of birth | (1870-01-25)25 January 1870 | ||
| Place of birth | Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England | ||
| Date of death | 28 July 1948(1948-07-28) (aged 78) | ||
| Place of death | Goodwood Racecourse, England | ||
| Position(s) | Outside Left | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1883-c.1886 | Holy Trinity School, Gainsborough | ||
| c. 1884 | Eclipse | ||
| 1887 | Gainsborough Jubilee Swifts | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1886 | Gainsborough Working Men's Club | ||
| 1886 | Gainsborough Wednesday | ||
| 1887–1891 | Gainsborough Trinity | ||
| 1891–1903 | Wednesday | 293 | (100) |
| 1904 | Glossop North End | 3 | (1) |
| 1905 | Leeds City | 7 | (0) |
| 1905–1906 | Southern United | ? | (?) |
| 1906 | Watford | 11 | (5) |
| International career | |||
| 1893–1898 | England | 7 | (7) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1910 | IFK Norrköping | ||
| 1911 | AIK Stockholm | ||
| 1911 | Sweden | ||
| 1911–1912 | MTV Munich 1879 | ||
| 1912–1914 | 1. FC Nürnberg | ||
| 1922–1924 | Reforma AC | ||
| 1922–1924 | Real Club España | ||
| 1926–1927 | 1. FC Nürnberg | ||
| 1928 | Lausanne Sports | ||
| 1931 | CF Badalona | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Frederick Spiksley (25 January 1870 – 28 July 1948) was an Englishfootballer and coach, who played as a forward forSheffield Wednesday andEngland. He also played forGainsborough Trinity,Glossop North End,Leeds City,Watford. After retiring as a player in 1906, he worked as a coach and won national league titles inSweden,Mexico andGermany. During theFirst World War he was arrested but escaped from a German Police prison.
Spiksley was born inGainsborough, the son of a boilermaker.[1] His father Edward worked at the Britannia Ironworks in Gainsborough. Edward had been married to Frederick's mother Sarah for five years by the time he was born.[2] Frederick had a younger sister named Florence Maud, who died on 18 December 1875, at the age of nearly five weeks.[3]
At the time of the1881 census, Spiksley's father was recorded as working as a Publican in Gainsborough. Frederick had an older brother named John Edward, and a younger brother named William.[4]
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After playing for local teams in Gainsborough, includingGainsborough Trinity (for whom he had scored 131 goals in 126 appearances), he signed forWednesday in 1891.[1] His later career was marred by injury (including a serious knee injury in 1903) and he played forLeeds City,Southern United andWatford.[1]
He was also an England international, scoringhat-tricks for his country on both his debut againstWales and second appearance againstScotland, both in 1893.[1][5][6]
After retiring as a player Spiskley joined the Fred Karno Company, and worked in a theatre withCharlie Chaplin.[1] He then became a football coach who worked in Sweden, Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, the United States, Peru and Mexico, as well as in England.[1]
AfterWorld War I broke out, he was coaching in Germany and was held in police prison for three days along with his son.[1] His wife managed to secure their release, and the family moved to Switzerland.[1] He then returned to England but was deemed unfit to serve in the War due to his earlier knee injury, which Spiksley exacerbated by dislocating his knee at will to fool the medical examiner.[1] He spent the war working in Sheffield as a munitions inspector,[7] resuming his coaching career after the war ended.[1]
He ended his career coaching at theKing Edward VII School in Sheffield.[1]
Spiksley was a "slight and silky winger" who was described as the "fastest man in football" by his England international team-mateBilly Bassett.[1]
He was married to Ellen with a son, Fred Jr.[1] He and Ellen later divorced in 1928 due to his adultery.[1][3] Spiksley was also a gambler who suffered heavy losses and was made bankrupt in 1909.[1]Spiksley married Rose Reichel, on 3 June 1929, at Paddington Register Office.[3]
He died from a heart attack at the age of 78 whilst attending Ladies' Day atGoodwood Racecourse in 1948.[1]
