Arthur Turner (footballer born 1909)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Arthur Owen Turner | ||
| Date of birth | 1 April 1909 | ||
| Place of birth | Chesterton, Staffordshire, England | ||
| Date of death | 12 January 1994 (aged 84) | ||
| Place of death | Sheffield, England | ||
| Playing position | Centre-half | ||
| Youth career | |||
| – | Downing Tileries | ||
| – | Woolstanton PSA | ||
| 1929–1930 | West Bromwich Albion | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1930–1939 | Stoke City | 290 | (17) |
| 1939–1948 | Birmingham City | 39 | (0) |
| 1948 | Southport | 28 | (0) |
| Total | 357 | (17) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1948 | Southport (player-manager) | ||
| 1948–1951 | Crewe Alexandra | ||
| 1951–1953 | Stoke City (assistant manager) | ||
| 1954–1958 | Birmingham City | ||
| 1959–1969 | Headington United / Oxford United | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Arthur Owen Turner (1 April 1909 – 12 January 1994) was an English professional association football player and manager. He played as a centre-half for Stoke City, Birmingham City and Southport. Turner was player-manager of Southport, managed Crewe Alexandra and was assistant at Stoke before joining Birmingham City as manager. He won the Second Division championship in 1954–55, led them the following season to the 1956 FA Cup Final and their highest ever top flight finish, and became the first man to manage an English club side in European competition when he took the club to the semi-final of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1958. Turner went on to manage the transformation of Southern League club Headington United into Oxford United of the Second Division of the Football League.
Arthur Turner was born in Chesterton, Staffordshire. Following a spell as an amateur with West Bromwich Albion, he signed professional forms for local club Stoke City of the Second Division in 1930. He was a strong defensive half-back, good in the air and on the ground, reliable and influential. He won a Second Division championship medal with Stoke in the 1932–33 season; the club history described him as one of "the real bedrocks" of the promotion side. He was appointed captain of Stoke, in a side that included Stanley Matthews, and in all competitions played over 300 games for the club. In 1939 he was sold to Birmingham for a fee of £6,000.
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