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George Edward Eastham,
OBE (born 23 September 1936) is an English former
footballer
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. He is known for playing for
Newcastle United
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,
Arsenal
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and
Stoke City
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, as well as a member of
England
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's
1966 World Cup
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-winning squad. However, he is also notable for his involvement in a 1963
court case
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which proved a landmark in improving players'
freedom to move
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between clubs.
Eastham began his career with Northern Irish side
Ards
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before moving back to England with
Newcastle United
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in 1956. He became a fine
inside forward
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for the "Magpies" but then shocked the club by demanding a move away which Newcastle rejected. Eastham took his case to the courts and won his case moving to
Arsenal
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. Eastham spent six seasons at
Highbury
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in Greater London that was owned by Ranulf brother of Ilger and included all the areas north and east of Canonbury and Holloway Roads.
The manor house was situ ...
making 223 appearances scoring 41 goals for the "Gunners" before joining
Stoke City
Stoke City Football Club is a professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, which competes in the . Founded as Stoke Ramblers in 1863, it changed its name to Stoke in 1878 and then to Stoke City in 1925 after Stoke ...
in 1966. His experience helped Stoke enjoy a successful spell in the early 1970s and Eastham scored the winning goal in the
1972 League Cup Final. He also spent time coaching in South Africa playing for
Hellenic before returning to Stoke to become assistant manager to
Tony Waddington
Anthony Waddington (9 November 1924 – 21 January 1994) was an English football manager at both Crewe Alexandra and Stoke City.
Waddington had a seven-year playing career with Crewe Alexandra before becoming a coach at Stoke City. He progre ...
. When Waddington resigned in March 1977 Eastham was appointed manager but was unable to prevent Stoke being relegated in
1976–77 and after failing to mount a promotion challenge the following season Eastham was sacked in January 1978. He then returned to coach in South Africa.
Playing career
Newcastle United
Eastham was part of a footballing family – his father,
George Eastham Sr., was an
England
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international who played for
Bolton Wanderers
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and
Blackpool
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, while his uncle
Harry Eastham
Henry Eastham (30 June 1917 – September 1998) was an English professional association football, footballer who played as an inside forward. Active between 1934 and 1954, Eastham made over 250 appearances in the Football League.
Early life
Ha ...
played for
Liverpool
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and
Accrington Stanley
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. In his youth he was a useful cricketer, playing in the same Blackpool CC team as his future fellow international,
Jimmy Armfield
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.
Eastham junior first played for Northern Irish club
Ards
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, where his father was player-manager, and the two played together on the pitch. A skilful
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
/
inside forward
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, he was signed by
Newcastle United
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in 1956, and made his debut against
Luton Town
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on 6 October 1956, in a match which finished 2–2. He spent four seasons with the Magpies and during his time there he won caps for the
Football League
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and the
England U23 side. He played 125 games for Newcastle, scoring 34 goals,
their best finish during this time being eighth in
1959–60.
However, during his time at Newcastle United Eastham fell out with the club, with Eastham disputing whether the house the club had supplied him was habitable, the unsatisfactory secondary job that the club had arranged (as
maximum wage
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rules at the time forbade clubs from paying the market rate) and their attempts to stop him playing for the England U23 team. With his contract due to expire soon, in 1959, Eastham refused to sign a new one and requested a transfer. However, Newcastle refused to let Eastham go. At the time, clubs operated a system known as
retain-and-transfer, which meant that teams could keep a player's registration (thus preventing them from moving) while refusing to pay them if they had requested a transfer.
As Eastham later recounted:
Unable to leave, Eastham went on strike at the end of the
1959–60 season, moving south to work for an old family friend,
Ernie Clay
Abel
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Abby Holland
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Acrata
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(who later became chairman of
Fulham
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), selling
cork
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** Cork (plug), a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container
***Wine cork
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in
Guildford
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is a town in west Surrey, around southwest of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The name "Guildf ...
, Surrey, a venture which earned him more money than his Newcastle contract paid. Finally in October 1960 Newcastle relented and sold Eastham to
Arsenal
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for £47,500. However, Eastham considered the point worth fighting for, and backed by the
Professional Footballers' Association
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The aims of ...
(who provided £15,000 to pay for Eastham's legal fees), he took the club to the
High Court in 1963.
In the case, ''Eastham v. Newcastle United''
964/nowiki> Ch. 413, Eastham argued that it was an unfair restraint of trade
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, and that Newcastle owed him £400 in unpaid wages and £650 in unpaid bonuses. The judge, Mr Justice Wilberforce, ruled partly in Eastham's favour, stating that the retain-and-transfer system was unreasonable, although he ruled that as Eastham had refused to play for Newcastle, that any payment of wages for the disputed period was at Newcastle's discretion. As a result, although Eastham did not gain personally, he succeeded in reforming the British transfer market. The "retain" element of retain-and-transfer was greatly reduced, providing fairer terms for players looking to re-sign for their clubs, and setting up a transfer tribunal for disputes.
Arsenal
Eastham made his Arsenal debut against Bolton Wanderers
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on 10 December 1960, and scored twice as Arsenal won 5–1. Later on that same season, he scored the equaliser against his former club Newcastle United at St James' Park
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, in a 3–3 draw, during which he was called "Judas
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" and pelted with apples. Throughout his six seasons at Arsenal, he was a regular for the side; though not a prolific goalscorer, Eastham was one of the most talented players of what was an average Arsenal side at the time; under George Swindin
George Hedley Swindin (4 December 1914 – 26 October 2005) was an English football player and manager.
Playing as a goalkeeper, Swindin made more than 300 appearances in the Football League with Bradford City and Arsenal, where his 18-year ...
and Billy Wright, Arsenal never finished higher than 7th during his time there.
Eastham's time at Arsenal was often turbulent; as well as the court case against Newcastle United, he fell out with Arsenal after asking for a pay rise following the maximum wage
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's abolishment in 1961 (but eventually Arsenal relented and met his demands), and he asked for a transfer after being replaced by Joe Baker
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up front at the start of the 1962–63 season. However, Billy Wright sought a compromise and eventually restored Eastham to the side, behind Baker; Eastham's form returned, he came off the transfer list and in both 1963–64 and 1964–65 he scored ten goals, the most per season during his Arsenal career, which included two in a 4–4 draw in a memorable North London derby
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match against Tottenham Hotspur
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at Highbury in October 1963.
It was at Arsenal that Eastham's international career flourished; he joined the England
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squad for the 1962 FIFA World Cup
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as an uncapped player, but did not play in the tournament; his England debut finally came on 8 May 1963, against Brazil
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. His final game for England came in a warmup game for the 1966 FIFA World Cup
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, against Denmark
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in Copenhagen on 3 July 1966, scoring in a 2–0 win. Eastham was also part of the squad for that tournament, but did not play a single minute of England's win in the tournament.
In the 1966 World Cup final
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only the 11 players on the pitch at the end of the 4–2 win over West Germany received medals. Following a Football Association
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led campaign to persuade FIFA
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to award medals to all the winners' squad members, Eastham was presented with his medal
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by Gordon Brown
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at a ceremony at 10 Downing Street
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on 10 June 2009.[World Cup 1966 winners honoured](_blank)
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Eastham continued to be a regular and served as Arsenal captain between 1963 and 1966, but Arsenal's declining form – finishing 14th in 1965–66 — led to Wright's dismissal in the summer of 1966. By now Eastham was nearly 30, and the new Arsenal management sought to dismantle Wright's side in favour of younger players. He joined Stoke City
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in August 1966, having scored 41 goals in 223 matches for the Gunners.
Stoke City
Eastham was purchased by Stoke City manager, Tony Waddington
Anthony Waddington (9 November 1924 – 21 January 1994) was an English football manager at both Crewe Alexandra and Stoke City.
Waddington had a seven-year playing career with Crewe Alexandra before becoming a coach at Stoke City. He progre ...
, for a fee of £35,000, prior to the start of the 1966–67 season. Eastham spent the next eight seasons at Stoke City, during which the club maintained their status in the First Division. He played in a side which combined home grown talent – such as the likes of Denis Smith, Eric Skeels
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and Mike Pejic
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Pejic started his career with Stoke City under the management of Tony Waddin ...
— alongside the experience of veterans like Eastham and Peter Dobing
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Career
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. Stoke won the League Cup
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in 1971–72, with Eastham scoring the winning goal in the final
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against Chelsea
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, which finished 2–1. At the age of 35 years 161 days, he became the oldest player to receive a winner's medal. He was also a beaten FA Cup
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semi-finalist in successive seasons ( 1970–71 and 1971–72) — both times in replays and both times by his former club Arsenal. Eastham also represented Stoke at European level, playing in the 1972–73 UEFA Cup; the first time the club had competed at European level in its history. In the first round, Stoke played Kaiserslautern
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of Germany but lost 5–3 on aggregate over two legs and were knocked out of the competition in the process.
In February 1971, at the age of 34, Eastham took a break from playing to develop his coaching ability, with the view of going into management. He embarked on a trip to South Africa, playing on loan with Cape Town City
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before having a spell as player-manager of Hellenic, who had previously been managed by his father. Eastham returned to Stoke in October 1971, to continue his playing career.
Eastham made 194 league appearances for Stoke City in total, ten of them as a substitute, scoring four goals. Eastham retired from playing in 1974, having been appointed an OBE for services to football the previous year.
Managerial career
Eastham became Tony Waddington
Anthony Waddington (9 November 1924 – 21 January 1994) was an English football manager at both Crewe Alexandra and Stoke City.
Waddington had a seven-year playing career with Crewe Alexandra before becoming a coach at Stoke City. He progre ...
's assistant at Stoke, and succeeded Waddington as Stoke manager after the latter resigned in March 1977, becoming only the club's fourth manager since 1935. He took over a side depleted of their best players who had been sold off to pay for repair work at the Victoria Ground
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and in trouble, and their relegation from the First Division was confirmed while he was in charge, finishing 21st out of 22 in 1976–77 after a run of just one win in 13 games. Eastham lasted only ten months, leaving the club in January 1978, after failing to sustain a push for promotion from the Second Division.
Retirement
After leaving the Stoke job, he quit professional football completely, and emigrated to South Africa in 1978. He set up his own sportswear
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business as well as being a football coach for local black children (being a noted opponent of Apartheid
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). He is also chairman of the South African Arsenal Supporters' Club.
Career statistics
Club
International
Managerial statistics
Honours
Stoke City
*Football League Cup
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: 1971–72
England
*World Cup
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: 1966
Events January
* January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko.
* January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...
Individual
*United Soccer Association
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All-Star Team: 1967
*PFA Merit Award
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(OBE): 1973
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* January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
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