Peter Harburn

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Peter Harburn
Personal information
Full name Peter Arthur Patrick Harburn[1]
Date of birth (1931-06-18)18 June 1931
Place of birth Shoreditch, England
Date of death 13 March 2010(2010-03-13) (aged 78)
Place of death Chelmsford, England[2]
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[1]
Position(s) Centre forward
Youth career
Brentford
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Portsmouth 0 (0)
1954–1958 Brighton & Hove Albion 126 (61)
1958–1959 Everton 4 (1)
1959 Scunthorpe United 20 (8)
1959–1961 Workington 67 (23)
1961–196? Chelmsford City
Stevenage Town
Wisbech Town
Managerial career
1966 Chelmsford City
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Peter Arthur Patrick Harburn (18 June 1931 – 13 March 2010) was a professional

the Football League playing for Brighton & Hove Albion, Everton, Scunthorpe United and Workington. He played as a centre forward.[3] He then played non-League football for Chelmsford City, where he also acted as trainer and manager, Stevenage Town and Wisbech Town
.

Life and career

Harburn was born in

Great Britain squad preparing for the Olympic Games, for which, as a professional, he was ineligible.[1][5]

In his first full season with Brighton, he scored 27 goals, including a sequence of 8 goals in 8 consecutive matches, a club record not beaten until 2001. The following season, 1957–58, Brighton finished as Third Division South champions. Harburn recalled the team were expected to take an attacking approach: "We scored 114 goals in our promotion year and I remember the manager Billy Lane telling us that when you see the whites of the goalposts whack it."[6] He and Dave Sexton were joint top scorers with 20 goals in all competitions.[7]

Harburn asked the club for an extra £1 a week, but was refused,

Wolverhampton Wanderers.[11] He finished his Football League career with two seasons in the Fourth Division with Workington.[3]

He went on to Southern League club Chelmsford City, where he scored 12 goals from 37 appearances. He acted as trainer under Billy Frith's management, then as caretaker manager after Frith left the club, and was appointed manager in his own right in February 1966.[12] After 50 games in charge, with 24 wins and 15 draws, Chelmsford sacked him,[13] but he won a £601 compensation payment for wrongful dismissal.[12] He went on to play non-League football for Stevenage Town and Wisbech Town[1] before returning to Chelmsford to work in the licensed trade.[12] He died on 13 March 2010, aged 78.[14]

References

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  2. ^ "Peter Harburn". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d "Peter Harburn". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  4. ^ Lacey, David (9 September 2006). "Critics may bring Crouch down a peg but England should be grateful for his rapid rise". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  5. ^ "England Amateurs For Training. Programme To End With Olympic Match". The Times. 25 February 1956. p. 3. The F.A. also chose a professional, Harburn, of Brighton and Hove. He left the Navy and became a professional earlier this month. His name was deleted.
  6. ^ a b c Naylor, Andy (13 December 2001). "Well done Bobby, for beating my record". The Argus. Brighton. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  7. ^ Carder & Harris, Albion A–Z, p. 338.
  8. ^ Minute Book No. 24. Everton F.C. 29 July 1958. p. 199.
  9. ^ Minute Book No. 24. Everton F.C. 6 January 1959. p. 242.
  10. ^ Norton, Michael. "The Second Division Years – 1958–59 Part four". Scunthorpe United F.C. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  11. ^ "The Iron Alphabet". Scunthorpe United F.C. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  12. ^ a b c "Former City boss Harburn dies aged 78". This is Total Essex. Northcliffe Media. 24 March 2010. Archived from the original on 6 May 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  13. ^ "Glenn Pennyfather – How Does He Rate?". The Chelmsford City Historian. David Selby. 13 June 2010. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
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