Albert Cheesebrough
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Albert Cheesebrough | ||
| Date of birth | 17 January 1935 | ||
| Place of birth | Burnley, England | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1950–1951 | Burnley | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1951–1959 | Burnley | 142 | (35) |
| 1959–1963 | Leicester City | 122 | (40) |
| 1963–1965 | Port Vale | 57 | (13) |
| 1965–1967 | Mansfield Town | 24 | (0) |
| Total | 345 | (88) | |
| National team | |||
| 1956 | England under-23 | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Albert Cheesebrough (born 17 January 1935) is an English former footballer. A forward, he scored 88 goals in 345 leagues games over a sixteen-year professional career in the Football League.
Turning professional with Burnley in 1951, he spent the next eight years at the club, making 158 appearances in league and cup competitions. Signing with Leicester City in 1959, he went on to play for the "Foxes" in the 1961 FA Cup Final. He moved on to Port Vale in 1963, and after recovering from injury he became the club's top-scorer in 1964–65, before he transferred to Mansfield Town in 1965. He spent two years with Mansfield before he was forced to retire due to injury. He won one cap for the England under-23s in 1956.
Born in Burnley, Lancashire, Cheesebrough joined Burnley as a 15-year-old in the summer of 1950, after a series of outstanding performances as captain of his school team, Rosegrove, and for representative schoolboy teams at town and county level for Lancashire. He signed professional terms on his 17th birthday in January 1952, and made his First Division debut against Manchester United three months later, before notching his first senior goal against Chelsea in April 1952. Though he played five games in 1951–52, he featured just once in 1952–53 and then played eight times in 1954–55 after failing to make an appearance in the entirety of the 1953–54 campaign.
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