Cliff Holton
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Clifford Charles Holton | ||
Date of birth | 29 April 1929 | ||
Place of birth | Oxford, England | ||
Date of death | 31 May 1996 | (aged 67)||
Position(s) |
Centre forward | ||
Youth career | |||
Oxford City | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1947–1958 | Arsenal | 198 | (83) |
1958–1961 | Watford | 120 | (84) |
1961–1962 | Northampton Town | 62 | (50) |
1962–1965 | Crystal Palace | 101 | (40) |
1965–1966 | Watford | 24 | (12) |
1966 | Charlton Athletic | 18 | (7) |
1966–1968 | Leyton Orient | 47 | (17) |
Total | 570 | (293) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Clifford Charles Holton (29 April 1929 – 31 May 1996) was an English footballer.
Born in
With 22 goals (19 of them in the league) he helped Arsenal to a
Holton was sold to Watford in October 1958 for £9,000,[1] a somewhat surprising move, considering Watford were in the newly formed Fourth Division at the time. Holton spent three seasons with the Hornets, mostly at centre forward. He formed a successful partnership with Dennis Uphill, scoring a club record 48 goals in 1959–60, which also saw the club promoted to the Third Division. Holton was then controversially sold to Northampton Town in 1961 where he scored a club record 36 goals in 1961–62, thus achieving the rare feat of holding the all-time goals in a season record at two different clubs.
Holton went on to play for Crystal Palace, signing in December 1962[2] and was part of the Palace side which achieved promotion to the second tier in 1964, with 43 appearances that season scoring 20 goals.[3] He then signed for Watford (for a second time) on 6 May 1965,[2] before moving on to Charlton Athletic (in a deal which saw Stewart Scullion move in the opposite direction)[4] and subsequently Leyton Orient. He finally retired in 1968, due in part to a knee injury,[1] and left the game completely to take up a career in engineering. He died suddenly while on holiday in 1996, at the age of 67.
Honours
References
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- ^ "1953/54 F.A. Charity Shield". footballsite.co.uk. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- Harris, Jeff (1995). Hogg, Tony (ed.). Arsenal Who's Who. Independent UK Sports. ISBN 1-899429-03-4.
- Ponting, Ivan (4 June 1996). "Obituary: Cliff Holton". The Independent. Retrieved 11 November 2012.