Where is nat lofthouse

He slid the ball past the keeper but was knocked cold in the challenge as he did. Bolton born and bred, Lofthouse was signed by Bolton Wanderers as a 14 year old apprentice in He made his debut in wartime football and in he became a Bevin boy, one of 48, men who were sent to work in the coal mines rather than the armed services in World War II.

A typical Saturday for Lofthouse involved getting up at 3. Having served his apprenticeship in wartime football, Lofthouse went on to become a star of peacetime football. For England he scored a phenomenal 30 goals in 33 games.

A forceful player, he combined physical strength with a powerful shot in either foot or a strong header. His strength and power were again prominent when he won the single honour of his career. He scored both goals in the FA Cup Final, the second seeing him charge both keeper and ball over the line. Both men were among the inaugural inductees to the Hall Of Fame. Retiring from playing in , he was made a President of Bolton Wanderers in , a post he held until his death in Lofthouse was one of the inaugural inductees to the National Football Museum Hall Of Fame in , attending the event to collect his award alongside other greats of the game, including his friend and former England team-mate Sir Tom Finney.

Opportunities to sponsor or donate to the National Football Museum. You may contact me via Facebook. But on the day he put pen to the paper, on 4 September , he watched in bemusement as the whole Bolton team boarded military transport to join the war which had been declared the previous day. Despite handing in a transfer request in January , with Tottenham Hotspur FC reportedly seeking his signature, and again in September His club rejected the offer.

Lofthouse scored goals in league appearances, being prodigious with both feet and a brilliant header of the ball. An ankle injury forced retirement on 6 January Club honours FA Cup runners-up ; winners ; Individual honours Football League fifteen appearances, 24 goals. Appointed an Order of the British Empire 1 January Inducted into the Hall of Fame He stepped up to chief coach in June The ultimate position of manager came in a caretaker capacity in August , followed by full-time on 18 December He was promoted to general manager in November , and became a chief scout for the club from August to June His one-man-club came to an end when he became the Lancashire scout for Arsenal FC from September England Career Player number nd player to appear for England.

Position s Centre forward First match No. Last match No. Major tournaments World Cup Finals ; provisional party ; British Championship , , , , , ; Team honours British Championship shared , , ; winners , ; Individual honours England B one appearance, one goal, Distinctions First player to score twelve braces for England. Only equalled by Bobby Charlton. First player to score twice as an England substitute.

Leading England goalscorers for four seasons. Quickest to score twenty goals, 2 years days, and 25 goals , 4 years days. Record England scorer from May until October , then with his final goal, was equal record goalscorer alongside Tom Finney, until October Beyond England Became life-President of Bolton Wanderers FC in , and even until April , worked commercially with the club he served with distinction for so long.

Douglas Lamming Hatton Press, p. Of the 18 players who were cut from the party on 28 May, they included Nat Lofthouse. England Football Online.

Players Index. Page Last Updated 2 August Nat Lofthouse. No one was more surprised than Lofthouse himself, he said. But flow they did. In all, he would score no fewer than League goals for Bolton, then a regular First Division club, in matches.

The title of his autobiography was Goals Galore. His debut for England was highly successful, since he scored both his side's goals in their draw with the Yugoslavs in November Nevertheless, Lofthouse had to wait almost a year before he became for a time England's first choice centre-forward. Between October and November — the year when he was voted Footballer of the Year — he did not miss an international. He gained his Lion of Vienna nickname for his gallant display against Austria.

Collecting the ball near the halfway line, Lofthouse set off on a remarkable run, harried and hacked by the Austrian defence, until he shot into the net; to be left prone and battered on the ground. In he played for Bolton in the "Matthews Final" at Wembley. In all the eulogies of Stanley Matthews, who inspired Blackpool to a victory over Bolton, it tends to be forgotten that Bolton played most of the Cup final with 10 fit men, their left-half, Eric Bell, being obliged to hobble on the wing, though it did not stop him scoring.

Lofthouse had to wait another five years before he took home a cupwinners' medal. Thus Lofthouse, so depressed by adverse criticism that he had almost stopped playing in , entered the pantheon of Bolton's heroes. It was long enough ago, before the era of mammoth salaries, for him to feel endlessly grateful to be a professional footballer. He was of the era when the close links with working-class life had yet to be severed. Retiring in after an injury, he took over a pub for a time, regaling the clientele with his footballing stories, then became manager of Bolton in , but found that a less rewarding occupation than scoring goals.

His connection with Bolton continued beyond that awkward spell, however, and in he became its president.