Albert Edward Fishwick (1899–1961) was an English
footballer
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. He scored 61 goals in 188 league games in a ten-year career in the
Football League
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, playing for
Plymouth Argyle
Plymouth Argyle Football Club is a professional football club based in the city of Plymouth, Devon, England. As of the 2021–22 season, the team are competing in League One, the third tier of English football. They have played at Home Park, ...
,
Blackpool
Blackpool is a seaside resort in Lancashire, England. Located on the North West England, northwest coast of England, it is the main settlement within the Borough of Blackpool, borough also called Blackpool. The town is by the Irish Sea, betw ...
,
Port Vale
Port Vale Football Club are a professional football club based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England, which compete in . Vale are the only English Football League club not to be named after a place; their name being a reference to the valley o ...
, and
Tranmere Rovers. He helped Vale to the
Third Division North
The Third Division North of the Football League was a tier in the English football league system from 1921 to 1958. It ran in parallel with the Third Division South with clubs elected to the League or relegated from a higher division allocated to ...
title in 1929–30.
Career
Fishwick played for Leyland, Hamilton Central and
Chorley
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(in two spells) before joining
Plymouth Argyle
Plymouth Argyle Football Club is a professional football club based in the city of Plymouth, Devon, England. As of the 2021–22 season, the team are competing in League One, the third tier of English football. They have played at Home Park, ...
. He made his debut in the
Third Division South
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, in a 1–0 defeat at
Northampton Town on 10 November 1923. He signed with
Blackpool
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in 1925. He made his debut for
Frank Buckley's team on 24 October, in a 4–0 victory over
Wolves
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at
Bloomfield Road.
[ Calley, Roy (1992). '' Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887–1992'', p. 226] He scored his first (two) goals for the club in the next game – a 4–3 win at
South Shields
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on 31 October.
He went on to make a total of 28 league appearances in the
1925–26 campaign. He finished as the
team's top scorer, with nineteen goals to his name, helping the "Seasiders" to a sixth-placed finish in the
Second Division
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.
The following season,
1926–27, Fishwick made 25 league appearances, scoring thirteen goals in the process, including a
hat-trick
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Origin
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in the third league game of the season – a 6–1 win at home to
Barnsley
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.
[ Calley, Roy (1992). ''Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887–1992'', p. 228]
After making six league appearances for Blackpool during the
1927–28 season,
[ Calley, Roy (1992). ''Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887–1992'', p. 230] Fishwick joined
Port Vale
Port Vale Football Club are a professional football club based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England, which compete in . Vale are the only English Football League club not to be named after a place; their name being a reference to the valley o ...
in March 1928.
His first game was a
Potteries derby match on 17 March 1928, which finished goalless.
He enjoyed regular football for the rest of
the season, scoring once in nine Second Division games.
He hit six goals in 15 appearances in
1928–29, as the "Valiants" were
relegated into the
Third Division North
The Third Division North of the Football League was a tier in the English football league system from 1921 to 1958. It ran in parallel with the Third Division South with clubs elected to the League or relegated from a higher division allocated to ...
.
They came straight back up as champions in
1929–30, with Fishwick scoring four goals in five games.
He hit four goals in 12 games in
1930–31, all coming within the space of three games.
He was sold to
Tranmere Rovers in March 1931 and later returned to his hometown club Chorley.
Rovers finished fourth in the Third Division North in
1931–32 and 11th in
1932–33.
Career statistics
Source:
Honours
Port Vale
*
Football League Third Division North
The Third Division North of the Football League was a tier in the English football league system from 1921 to 1958. It ran in parallel with the Third Division South with clubs elected to the League or relegated
In sports leagues, promotion and ...
:
1929–30
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1899 births
1961 deaths
Footballers from Chorley
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Chorley F.C. players
Plymouth Argyle F.C. players
Blackpool F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
Tranmere Rovers F.C. players
English Football League players