Alexander Galloway Raisbeck (26 December 1878 – 12 March 1949) was a Scottish professional
football player and
manager
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. After playing
junior
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* ''Junior'' (Junior Mance album), 1959
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football for
Larkhall Thistle
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, he was signed by
Hibernian where he made his professional debut at the age of 17. Despite playing only ten matches in his first season, he was chosen to represent a
Scottish League XI
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in a match against their Irish counterparts.
In 1898, he joined English
First Division side
Stoke on a short term deal at the end of the 1897–98 season, playing in four league matches and four
Football League test matches
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to help the club avoid relegation. His form attracted attention from other clubs and he signed for
Liverpool
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in May 1898. He quickly established himself in the first-team and was appointed club captain after two seasons at the age of 21, leading the side to their first ever league title in 1901. Liverpool were relegated in 1904 and Raisbeck subsequently cancelled his plans to leave the club to help them win promotion back to the First Division at the first attempt, winning the
Second Division
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title in 1905.
Returning to the First Division for the 1905–06 season, he was part of the side that won the league title on their return. He remained with Liverpool until 1909, making over 300 appearances during an eleven-year spell, when mounting injuries and homesickness led him to seek a return to his native Scotland, eventually signing for
Partick Thistle. He captained Thistle for five seasons before undergoing an operation to cure potential appendicitis that led to his retirement from playing in 1914.
During his career, Raisbeck also represented the
Scotland national team on nine occasions between 1900 and 1907, although a match against
England
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in which
25 fans died in a stand collapse was later discounted. Following his retirement, Raisbeck managed
Hamilton Academical
Hamilton Academical Football Club, often known as Hamilton Accies, or The Accies, is a Scottish football club from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire who currently compete in the Scottish Championship, having been relegated from the 2020–21 Scotti ...
,
Bristol City
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,
Halifax Town
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,
Chester and
Bath City
Bath City Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Bath, Somerset, England. The club is affiliated to the Somerset FA and currently competes in the National League South, the sixth tier of English football. The club have ...
.
Early life
Raisbeck was born in the village of
Wallacestone
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The population of Wallacestone was recorded a ...
near
Polmont
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Due to its situation in Central Scotland, ...
, Stirlingshire on
Boxing Day, 1878. However, his family moved from the village to
Slamannan
Slamannan ( gd, Sliabh Mhanainn) is a village in the south of the Falkirk council area in Central Scotland. It is south-west of Falkirk, east of Cumbernauld and north-east of Airdrie.
Slamannan is located at the cross of the B803 and B8022 ...
before eventually settling in
South Lanarkshire, living in a house near
Cambuslang built on the site of a former infectious disease hospital.
His parents, Luke and Jean, had fourteen children, although only eight lived to adulthood. At age twelve, Raisbeck was given the choice of picking a line of work and decided to follow his father and older brothers into the local colliery to work as a coal miner. He would start work in the pit at six in the morning and would not return to the surface until at least five in the afternoon each day.
Club career
Scotland
After playing for a youth team sponsored by a local church, Raisbeck joined
Larkhall Thistle
Larkhall Thistle Football Club is a football club from Larkhall, in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Formed in 1878, "the Jags" are Scotland's oldest continuous Junior football club and currently compete in the . The team plays in red and white str ...
at the age of thirteen and was placed in the club's third team. However, after a single season, he was promoted to the first-team and started playing in the unfamiliar outside right position. He later commented on his belief that the club's selection committee "must have noticed my extraordinary tendency to wander into the middle of the field" and he eventually switched to playing as a defender.
Two of his brothers,
Willie
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and
Andrew
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, were also part of the Larkhall
Junior
Junior or Juniors may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
* ''Junior'' (Junior Mance album), 1959
* ''Junior'' (Röyksopp album), 2009
* ''Junior'' (Kaki King album), 2010
* ''Junior'' (LaFontaines album), 2019
Films
* ''Junior'' (1994 ...
side and the trio helped the side to win their first trophy since the club was founded. His performances were brought to the attention of
Hibernian player
Joe Murphy, known commonly as Judge as he wore a wig, who visited Raisbeck's family home to try to convince him to join the club. At the time, Raisbeck had actually given up on playing football due to a knee injury but was eager to leave his mining job and signed for the club on 30 July 1896.
Despite looking to leave the mining profession, Raisbeck later commented on his desire to learn the trade, stating footballers "who have no trade will have to turn their hands to menial labour,
..the skilled trades will be able to command the standard rate of wages."
Raisbeck made his professional debut for Hibernian less than two months after signing, playing in a 2–2 draw with
Abercorn
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on 12 September 1896,
and scored his first goal for the club in the reverse fixture against Abercorn in a 9–0 victory. He made ten appearances in all competitions during the season, helping Hibs to
second place, and impressed selectors enough to be called up to the
Scottish League XI
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as a reserve player for a match against their Irish counterparts. However,
Alex Keillor later withdrew from the squad which allowed Raisbeck to start the match played at
Solitude.
At the age of seventeen, Raisbeck travelled to
Aberdour with the Hibernian squad for a training camp. During a dinner, he rushed to finish his soup during a heated discussion and swallowed a small bone that became lodged in his throat; players and coaches made frantic attempts to help Raisbeck as he struggled to breathe and began to lose consciousness before club trainer Paddy Canon was able to hit him hard enough on the back to dislodge the bone.
In his second season at Hibernian, he missed just two league matches as Hibernian
finished in third place.
Stoke
At the end of the 1897–98 season, Raisbeck and Hibs teammate
Jack Kennedy joined
Stoke on a short term deal for two months. English clubs would frequently bring in Scottish players temporarily to bolster their squad in the final matches of the season. He played four league matches for the club as they finished bottom of the
Football League First Division and were entered into
Football League test matches
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, a four team mini-league where the bottom two clubs in the First Division and the top two clubs in the
Second Division
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played each other once with the top two playing in the First Division the following season.
He played in all four test matches as Stoke finished top of the mini-league,
although all four teams were allowed into the First Division as the Football League decided to expand the number of teams.
Liverpool
Stoke hoped to sign Raisbeck on a permanent basis and made an appointment with manager
Horace Austerberry to discuss terms. However, Austerberry failed to arrive for the meeting and Raisbeck later met
Liverpool
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manager
Tom Watson at the home of the Hibernian chairman.
Watson quickly made him an offer to join Liverpool and the transfer was completed on 6 May 1898. He was welcomed to the club with a
Lancashire hotpot
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dinner, a tradition for Liverpool to initiate new players.
One of several Scottish players in the squad, Raisbeck commented that he was "welcomed with open arms" and "felt at home right away" and became particularly good friends with fellow Scot
John Walker.
After a twelve week training camp near
Blackpool, he made his debut in a First Division match against
Sheffield Wednesday
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on 3 September 1898. Liverpool reached the semi-final of the
FA Cup
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in his first season at the club, playing a four game tie against
Sheffield United
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. Liverpool had led 2–1 and 4–2 in the original tie and first replay before drawing both matches after conceding late goals and a second replay was abandoned with Liverpool leading 1–0 after Sheffield fans ran onto the pitch on more than one occasion. Liverpool would eventually lose 1–0 in a fourth match and Raisbeck would be called into a hearing by a disciplinary panel after Liverpool players " severely jostled" the referee at the end of the match having been aggrieved at his decisions. The referee believed Raisbeck had witnessed the incident and asked him to name the players responsible but Raisbeck refused, later stating "I did not think any of our players had had anything to do with the demonstration".
Along with teammates Walker and
William Goldie
William Glover Goldie (22 January 1878 – 3 February 1952) was a footballer who played for Liverpool in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, helping them to a Football League Championship.
Life and playing career
Born in Hurlford, Ayrshire, ...
, he was reported by the referee over the incident but was later cleared of any wrongdoing. In the league, Liverpool finished as runners-up to
Aston Villa after losing their final match of the season.
After two seasons at
Anfield
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, Raisbeck was appointed club captain and led Liverpool to their first ever league title in
1900–01. They claimed the title after defeating
West Bromwich Albion
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in the final game of the season. Following their victory, the team were cheered off at
Birmingham Snow Hill railway station by West Brom fans before being greeted by around 50,000 fans upon their return to
Liverpool Central railway station
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.
In April 1901, the Football League introduced a £4 weekly
maximum wage
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for footballers which severely impacted Liverpool who were seen as one of the higher paying teams in England. To try and ensure they could pay their players extra money, they would assign players jobs within the club that they could be paid for. Raisbeck himself was employed as a bill inspector, his job being to monitor public notice boards to check whether they were correctly advertising the club's fixtures.
![Alex raisbeck portrait](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Alex_raisbeck_portrait.jpg)
Three years after the club won the league title, they suffered relegation to the Second Division. Raisbeck had considered leaving Liverpool at the start of the 1903–04 season but changed his mind when they were relegated, stating "I simply could not leave my club in its day of disaster."
He remained with the club and helped them win promotion back to the First Division after a single season after recording a record points total, with only goalkeeper
Ned Doig
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making more appearances during the course of the season.
On their return to the First Division, the Liverpool board decided to form the club into a
limited company
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. When the players were informed of the decision by manager Watson during a training camp in
The Midlands
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, several senior players, including Raisbeck, decided to invest in shares of the club with ten of the fifteen players at the camp choosing to purchase shares.
In their first season back in the First Division, Raisbeck enjoyed his most successful campaign with the club as he helped them to lift the league title, the
Sheriff of London Charity Shield
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and the
Liverpool Senior Cup
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.
In the FA Cup, Liverpool were defeated by local rivals
Everton in the semi-finals. Prior to the match, as captain, Raisbeck had met with the club's directors and pushed for the inclusion of
Sam Raybould
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Life and playing career
Raybould was born in Staveley, Derbyshire and playe ...
in the starting line-up which was agreed after it was confirmed that he had sufficiently recovered from injury. However, some players later met with the directors and convinced them to drop Raybould and gave the directors the impression that Raisbeck was in agreement with this decision. The directors relented and the team was rearranged without Raisbeck's knowledge. He would later comment on the changes which left several players out of position for the match, stating " our forwards were all out of tune and they did little that was right. We lost, but I still feel it was an error of judgement which deprived Liverpool of competing in the final."
As a reward for winning the First Division title, the Liverpool squad were sent to Paris for a team holiday where they met swimmer
John Arthur Jarvis following his victory in a race in the
Seine.
In his later years with Liverpool, mounting injuries began to take their toll on Raisbeck's body and his appearances for the club steadily decreased each season.
During the 1908–09 season, he developed a knee injury that kept him out of the first-team for four months and the extended time away from the club led him to become homesick and he eventually informed the club of his wish to return to Scotland. The club's board were initially unwilling to allow their captain to leave but relented when he told them it was for health reasons.
He played his final match for the club on 30 April 1909, a 1–0 victory over
Newcastle United that saw Liverpool avoid relegation.
During his time at Anfield, he made 341 appearances in all competitions, scoring 19 goals.
Partick Thistle
Raisbeck's teammate
Maurice Parry was out of contract at Liverpool at the end of the 1908–09 season and was in talks with Scottish side
Partick Thistle over a potential move. Thistle club secretary George Easton, a friend of Raisbeck, approached him for his opinion on Parry and during their conversation he remarked to Easton over his desire to move. Easton quickly contacted Liverpool and the transfer was completed soon after for a fee of £500.
The team had finished bottom of the Scottish First Division the previous season but were due to move into their new ground
Firhill and Raisbeck and Parry were part of several signings brought in to boost the club's fortunes.
He was appointed club captain on his arrival and went on to make over 100 appearances for the club during a five-year spell. In his final season at Partick, Raisbeck sustained a blow to the abdomen during a league match against
Dundee but played on after an initial wave of pain. However, in the dressing room after the match he experienced more pain and the club doctor advised that the injury was not serious but could lead to
appendicitis
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. He played on for several matches but grew uneasy over the increased pain after matches and eventually sought further advice from a professor who advised him to undergo surgery, which took place on Christmas Day 1913 in Glasgow.
The injury ruled him out of his
benefit match
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and he never played a competitive match for Partick again.
International career
Having represented the
Scottish Football League XI
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, Raisbeck made his senior international debut for
Scotland
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on 17 April 1900 in a 4–1 victory over
England
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. On 5 April 1902, he played in a match against England that was later declared void following the
1902 Ibrox disaster
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in which 25 people died when a stand at the stadium collapsed. Raisbeck later recalled the moment he heard the stand give way, believing initially that the crowd had attempted to storm the pitch. The match was temporarily halted and the teams returned to the dressing rooms where some of the injured spectators were being treated. Describing the scene, Raisbeck commented "I shall never forget the scenes inside. Dead bodies and groaning men were lying on the seats where only a short time ago the Scottish players had stripped. Even some of the players' clothing was requisitioned for bandages."
The match later resumed but was not counted by either the English or Scottish Football Associations in official statistics.
He went on to win a total of eight caps, all but one coming in matches against England.
Managerial career
In March 1914, Raisbeck met an official working for
Hamilton Academical
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who informed him that the club were looking to employ their first manager. He enquired about taking the job and was eventually hired.
He spent three years in charge of the club before changing roles to a director for a further three and a half years.
On 28 December 1921, Raisbeck was appointed manager of Second Division side
Bristol City
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, but was unable to avoid relegation to the
Third Division South
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in his first season.
The following year, he led the team to promotion back into the Second Division by winning the
Third Division South
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titles.
His success with Bristol saw him named as one of the candidates to take over as Liverpool manager from
David Ashworth
David George Ashworth (2 June 1867 – 1947) was an English football referee and manager.
He became the first manager of Oldham Athletic in 1906, spending eight successful years there before moving on to manage Stockport County in 1914 and ...
but the post was eventually given to
Matt McQueen
Matthew McQueen (18 May 1863 – 28 September 1944) was a Scottish football player, who later became a director and manager of Liverpool.
Life and playing career
Born in Harthill, Lanarkshire, Scotland, McQueen played for Leith Athletic ( ...
. Bristol suffered relegation again in the 1923–24 season and, despite returning to the Second Division three years later, he resigned from his post in June 1929.
After a six-year spell with
Halifax Town
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, he took over the manager's role at
Chester in 1936, after being chosen from over 100 applicants, as the permanent replacement for
Charlie Hewitt. In July 1938, Raisbeck was appointed manager of
Southern Football League side
Bath City
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, however the outbreak of World War II in 1939 led all competitive football to be suspended and he left his position at the club. He later returned to Liverpool following the end of the war, working as a scout until his death in 1949.
Personal life
Raisbeck fathered fourteen children during his life.
During World War II, six of Raisbeck's sons served in the armed forces, four of them as officers. He died in
Liverpool
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on 12 March 1949 at the age of 70, leaving £276 and 18
shillings in his will.
Two of his brothers were also footballers:
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Plac ...
's clubs included
Sunderland and
Falkirk,
while
Andrew
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appeared for Hibernian and was a reserve at Liverpool, then played for
Hull City
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.
Both emigrated to Canada in 1907 along with other family members.
[ A cousin of the family, Luke Raisbeck, played for ]West Ham United
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and Blackpool among others.
Career statistics
Club
Source:
International
Source:
Managerial statistics
Honours
As a player:
Liverpool
* Football League First Division winner: 1900–01, 1905–06
Nineteen or 19 may refer to:
* 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20
* one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019
Films
* ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film
* ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film
Music ...
* Football League Second Division
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winner: 1904–05
Nineteen or 19 may refer to:
* 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20
* one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019
Films
* ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film
* ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film
Music ...
* Sheriff of London Charity Shield
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winner: 1906
Hibernian
*Scottish League
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runner-up: 1896–97
As a manager:
Bristol City
* Football League Division Three (South) Champions 1923, 1927
See also
*List of Scotland national football team captains
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*List of Scottish football families
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;Families included on the list must have:
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