1957–58 Stoke City F.C. season
Stadium | Victoria Ground | |
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Football League Second Division | 11th (42 Points) | |
FA Cup | Fifth Round | |
Top goalscorer | League: George Kelly (22) All: George Kelly (24) | |
Highest home attendance | 27,568 vs Leyton Orient (28 December 1957) | |
Lowest home attendance | 10,879 vs Derby County (26 April 1958) | |
Average home league attendance | 20,511 | |
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The
The pressure was now beginning to increase on
Season review
League
Prior to the start of the 1957–58 season both
The 1957–58 season again proved to be a big disappointment and whilst until December Stoke were in the top two, they ended up in 11th place with absolutely nothing to show for the early efforts.[1] Taylor did go out and spend £11,000 on Dennis Wilshaw from Wolverhampton Wanderers and long serving Frank Mountford bowed out after eight years and took up a coaching role a position he would keep until 1980.[1]
The fruits of the club's youth policy were slowly play dividends with the emergence this season of Tony Allen a quality full back who go on to win international honours with England.[1] Peter Bullock also came through the youth team whilst he did not have a very successful career with Stoke he made his debut against Swansea Town at the age of 16 and 163 days old and he scored becoming the club's youngest player and goalscorer.[1]
FA Cup
Stoke made in-roads in the FA Cup overcoming
Final league table
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAv | Pts |
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9 | Huddersfield Town | 42 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 63 | 66 | 0.955 | 44 |
10 | Bristol Rovers | 42 | 17 | 8 | 17 | 85 | 80 | 1.063 | 42 |
11 | Stoke City | 42 | 18 | 6 | 18 | 75 | 73 | 1.027 | 42 |
12 | Leyton Orient | 42 | 18 | 5 | 19 | 77 | 79 | 0.975 | 41 |
13 | Grimsby Town | 42 | 17 | 6 | 19 | 86 | 83 | 1.036 | 40 |
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal average; 3) Goals scored
Results
Stoke's score comes first
Legend
Win | Draw | Loss |
Football League Second Division
Match | Date | Opponent | Venue | Result | Attendance | Scorers |
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1 | 24 August 1957 | Middlesbrough | H | 4–1 | 23,286 | Oscroft, King (2), Kelly |
2 | 26 August 1957 | Bristol City | H | 3–0 | 23,001 | King, Kelly, Bowyer |
3 | 31 August 1957 | Leyton Orient | A | 2–0 | 17,497 | Kelly, Oscroft |
4 | 3 September 1957 | Bristol City | A |
1–2 | 25,432 | Kelly |
5 | 7 September 1957 | Charlton Athletic | H | 2–2 | 26,848 | Kelly, Oscroft |
6 | 9 September 1957 | Bristol Rovers | H | 3–5 | 23,090 | Kelly, Coleman, Asprey |
7 | 14 September 1957 | Doncaster Rovers | A | 1–0 | 9,157 | King |
8 | 16 September 1957 | Bristol Rovers | A | 0–2 | 20,022 | |
9 | 21 September 1957 | Rotherham United | H | 4–1 | 20,487 | Anderson
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10 | 23 September 1957 | Liverpool | H | 1–2 | 23,231 | Twentyman (o.g.) |
11 | 28 September 1957 | Huddersfield Town | A | 0–1 | 12,467 | |
12 | 5 October 1957 | Grimsby Town | H | 4–1 | 18,540 | Kelly (2), Ratcliffe, King |
13 | 12 October 1957 | Lincoln City | H | 1–1 | 20,791 | King |
14 | 19 October 1957 | Notts County | A | 2–1 | 13,400 | King, Kelly |
15 | 26 October 1957 | Ipswich Town | H | 5–1 | 17,469 | Acres (o.g.), Kelly (2), Oscroft (2) |
16 | 2 November 1957 | Blackburn Rovers | A | 0–1 | 26,100 | |
17 | 4 November 1957 | Cardiff City | H | 3–0 | 20,116 | Coleman (2), Bowyer |
18 | 9 November 1957 | Sheffield United | H | 2–3 | 21,602 | Coleman, Bowyer |
19 | 16 November 1957 | West Ham United | A | 0–5 | 23,230 | |
20 | 23 November 1957 | Barnsley | H | 3–1 | 17,555 | King, Kelly, Ratcliffe |
21 | 30 November 1957 | Fulham | A | 4–3 | 19,781 | King, Coleman (3) |
22 | 9 December 1957 | Swansea Town | H | 6–2 | 24,113 | King (2), Bowyer, Kelly (3) |
23 | 14 December 1957 | Derby County | A | 0–0 | 24,358 | |
24 | 21 December 1957 | Middlesbrough | A | 3–1 | 19,220 | Kelly (2), Coleman |
25 | 26 December 1957 | Cardiff City | A | 2–5 | 30,240 | Kelly (2) |
26 | 28 December 1957 | Leyton Orient | H | 1–3 | 27,568 | Coleman |
27 | 11 January 1958 | Charlton Athletic | A |
0–3 | 20,157 | |
28 | 18 January 1958 | Doncaster Rovers | H | 0–0 | 21,466 | |
29 | 1 February 1958 | Rotherham United | A | 2–0 | 7,921 | Bowyer, Ratcliffe |
30 | 8 February 1958 | Huddersfield Town | H | 1–1 | 16,489 | Kelly |
31 | 22 February 1958 | Barnsley | A | 2–1 | 14,182 | Bowyer, Short (o.g.) |
32 | 1 March 1958 | Notts County | H | 0–1 | 13,425 | |
33 | 8 March 1958 | Ipswich Town | A | 3–1 | 17,169 | Coleman (2), Wilshaw |
34 | 15 March 1958 | Blackburn Rovers | H | 2–4 | 24,107 | Coleman, Wilshaw |
35 | 22 March 1958 | Sheffield United | A | 0–3 | 19,540 | |
36 | 29 March 1958 | West Ham United | H | 1–4 | 14,514 | King |
37 | 5 April 1958 | Lincoln City | A | 3–1 | 8,169 | Oscroft, Wilshaw (2) |
38 | 7 April 1958 | Liverpool | A | 0–3 | 39,449 | |
39 | 12 April 1958 | Fulham | H | 1–2 | 18,918 | King (pen) |
40 | 19 April 1958 | Swansea Town | A | 1–4 | 23,345 | Bullock |
41 | 22 April 1958 | Grimsby Town | A | 0–0 | 10,579 | |
42 | 26 April 1958 | Derby County | H | 2–1 | 10,879 | Wilshaw (2) |
FA Cup
Round | Date | Opponent | Venue | Result | Attendance | Scorers |
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R3 | 4 January 1958 | Aston Villa | H | 1–1 | 45,800 | Kelly |
R3 Replay | 8 January 1958 | Aston Villa | A | 3–3 (aet) | 38,939 | Oscroft, Coleman, Kelly |
R3 2nd Replay | 13 January 1958 | Aston Villa | N | 2–0 | 37,702 | Coleman, Cairns |
R4 | 25 January 1958 | Middlesbrough | H | 3–1 | 43,756 | Wilshaw (3) |
R5 | 15 February 1958 | Bolton Wanderers | A | 1–3 | 56,667 | Cairns |
Squad statistics
Pos. | Name | League | FA Cup | Total | |||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
GK | Wilf Hall | 24 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 29 | 0 |
GK | Ken Hancock | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
GK | Bill Robertson | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 |
DF | Tony Allen | 34 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 39 | 0 |
DF | Ron Andrew | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
DF | John McCue | 33 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 38 | 0 |
DF | Peter Ford | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
DF | Ken Thomson | 37 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 42 | 0 |
MF | Bill Asprey | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 1 |
MF | Bobby Cairns | 20 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 25 | 2 |
MF | Frank Mountford | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
MF | John Sellars | 27 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 32 | 0 |
FW | John Anderson
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4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
FW | Frank Bowyer | 36 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 41 | 5 |
FW | Peter Bullock | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
FW | Neville Coleman | 33 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 37 | 14 |
FW | Peter Hall | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
FW | Colin Hutchinson | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
FW | George Kelly | 33 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 38 | 24 |
FW | Johnny King | 38 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 41 | 15 |
FW | Harry Oscroft | 21 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 7 |
FW | Don Ratcliffe | 31 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 3 |
FW | Dennis Wilshaw | 19 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 24 | 9 |
– | Own goals | – | 3 | – | 0 | – | 3 |
References
- ^ ISBN 0-9524151-0-0.