Percy Barton
Personal information
Date of birth (1893-01-20)20 January 1893[1]
Place of birth Edmonton, London, England
Date of death October 1961 (1961-11) (aged 68)
Place of death Birmingham, England
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[2]
Position(s) Left half
Youth career
Tottenham Thursday
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Edmonton Amateurs
Sultan
1914–1929 Birmingham 331 (13)
1929–1933 Stourbridge
International career
1921–1924 England 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Percy Barton (20 January 1893 – October 1961) was an England international footballer who played as a left half. He played for Birmingham both before and after the First World War, making 349 appearances in all competitions, and was a member of the team that won the Second Division title in 1920–21.

Career

Barton was born in Edmonton, London where he attended Montague Road School. He worked as a butcher's boy on leaving school, and played football for a local team, Sultan F.C.[3] One of his Sultan teammates, Richard Gibson, had gone on to play professionally for Birmingham, and Gibson recommended Barton to the club.[4] Barton signed for Birmingham in January 1914 at the age of 18,[3] went straight into the first team, and missed only two league games in a season and a half before the Football League was suspended for the duration of the war.[5]

He missed only one match in the 1920–21 season as Birmingham won the Second Division title.[6] Towards the end of his Birmingham career he played in positions other than his customary left-half; in the 1926–27 season he was used at left back and later still he played centre-half or filled in occasionally on the right.[7] He was a hard-working player, whose combative style did not always find favour with referees, resulting in him being sent off three times.[3] After leaving Birmingham he spent four seasons with Stourbridge in the Birmingham & District League.[3]

He won seven caps for England between 1921 and 1924.[1]

Barton died in Birmingham in October 1961 at the age of 68.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Percy Barton". England Football Online. 25 February 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Blues" News. The Official Programme of Birmingham Football Club, Ltd. Birmingham F.C. 30 August 1924. p. 3.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 71. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
  4. ↑ Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
  5. ↑ Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. pp. 160–161. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
  6. ↑ Matthews, Tony (2010). Birmingham City: The Complete Record. Derby: DB Publishing. p. 283. ISBN 978-1-85983-853-2.
  7. ↑ Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. pp. 169–171. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.


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