Frank Brettell
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Francis Edward Brettell | ||
Date of birth | 1862 | ||
Place of birth | Smethwick, Staffordshire, England | ||
Date of death | 1936 (aged 73–74) | ||
Place of death | Dartford, Kent, England | ||
Position(s) | Full-back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
St. Domingo's | |||
Everton | |||
Managerial career | |||
1896–1898 | Bolton Wanderers | ||
1898–1899 | Tottenham Hotspur | ||
1899–1901 | Portsmouth | ||
1903–1905 | Plymouth Argyle | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Frank E. Brettell (1862–1936) was an English
He played as a
Football career
Brettell began his football career with a local club St. Domingo. He initially played as centre- or inside-forward for the club, and later due to injuries as half-back and even on goal.[1] He combined his playing duties with a role as secretary-manager of the team in 1875.[2] The club was reformed as Everton in 1879 with Brettell as a member of the committee during the club's first year. After his playing career ended, he continued as a full-time reporter for local newspaper the Liverpool Mercury.
He joined
His first season in charge was also Portsmouth's first in the
It would be another two years before he took up his final managerial role when Brettell was invited to build a professional team for Plymouth Argyle in 1903, an offer which he accepted.[5]
Having been able to call upon twenty-eight years of experience as a football administrator and manager, he succeeded in his task and led the club into the Southern League for the
Later life
It is believed that he retired altogether the following year, but only a little more is known about him.[2] He was the son of William Brettell, foreman at a nut and bolt works, and Charlotte Burgess. He moved to the Liverpool area with his parents in the 1860s, became a school teacher in the 1880s and 1890s, marrying Lavinia Isabel Spearman in 1882, with whom he had 10 children. After his professional career in football finished he continued to live in Plymouth, working as a clerk to a carrier firm in 1911. He died in Dartford, Kent, in 1936 aged 74.
References
- General
- Danes, Ryan (2009). Plymouth Argyle: A Complete Record. Plymouth: Breedon Books. ISBN 978-1-85983-710-8.
- Cowdery, Rick (2009). Plymouth Argyle: Miscellany. Plymouth: Pitch Publishing. ISBN 978-1-905411-40-5.
- Knight, Brian (1989). Plymouth Argyle: A Complete Record 1903–1989. Derby: Breedon Books. ISBN 0-907969-40-2.
- Specific
- ^ ISBN 978-0907969426.
- ^ a b Frank Brettell Greens on Screen. Retrieved 25 February 2010.
- ^ Limited Company Formed Spurs History. Retrieved 25 February 2010.
- ISBN 0-9534-4745-6.
- ^ The Argyle Story Greens on Screen. Retrieved 25 February 2010.
- ^ Argyle History Greens on Screen. Retrieved 25 February 2010.