Joseph Ebenezer Shaw (7 May 1883 – September 1963) was an English
football
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player and coach.
Career
Born in
Bury, Lancashire
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The town is within the Historic counties of Englan ...
, Shaw first played for his home club,
Bury
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** Bury (UK Parliament constituency) (1832–19 ...
, and then
Accrington Stanley
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, helping the side win the
Lancashire Combination
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. Shaw then moved south to London, joining
Woolwich Arsenal in 1907.
He made his debut against
Preston North End
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on 28 September 1907, and had soon become a regular in the Arsenal side; he was first-choice
left back
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Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...
for the next seven seasons. Although the club had shown early promise since their promotion to the
First Division in 1904, with two successive
FA Cup
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semi-final appearances in the seasons before Shaw's arrival, they soon quickly faded. After a high of sixth place in
1908-09, Woolwich Arsenal soon found themselves in trouble, and were relegated in
1912-13.
Despite this, Shaw stayed with the club as they moved across London to
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.
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, and was an ever-present in the final
1914-15 season prior to first-class football being suspended for
World War I
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. He continued to play during unofficial wartime matches, and by the time competitive football had resumed, he had made the switch to right back. In 1919 he was made Arsenal captain, succeeding the recently departed
Percy Sands
Percy Robert Sands (1881 – December 1965) was an English footballer, who spent seventeen years playing for Arsenal, making him one of the club's most enduring servants.
Born in Norwood, London, Sands trained as a teacher in Cheltenham and al ...
. By this time Arsenal were back in the First Division, and Shaw continued to play until the age of 38. In 1922 he had made his 300th first-class appearance against
Newcastle United
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on 23 April 1921 becoming the third player in the club's history to do so, after Sands and
Roddy McEachrane
Roderick John McEachrane (3 February 1877 – 16 November 1952) was a Scottish footballer, born in Inverness.
McEachrane moved to Canning Town, London at the age of 20, to work at the Thames Iron Works, and joined the works football team, Thame ...
.
In all he played 326 matches for the club, although he never scored a goal. After retiring from playing, he became first a coach, and then manager of the Arsenal reserve side. After the unexpected death of
Herbert Chapman
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in January 1934, Shaw became
caretaker manager
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of the first team for the rest of the season; Shaw carried on Chapman's good work, as Arsenal won the
1933-34 League title, the third title in the club's history. After
George Allison
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Journalism career
Allison was ...
was appointed permanent first-team manager in the summer, Shaw went back to his post as reserves manager.
Shaw remained at Arsenal through the rest of the 1930s and during the
Second World War
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. After the war ended, he had a stint as a coach at
Chelsea
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, a spell which started at 1945 and lasted for the next two years. He then returned from Chelsea, towards Arsenal to become assistant manager to
Tom Whittaker in 1947. He later served as a club ambassador and fully ended his footballing days in 1956, after 49 years' service for Arsenal. He died in 1963 at the age of 80.
See also
*
List of English football championship winning managers
This is a list of managers of championship winning teams in English football.
Managers
Key
* Managers with this background and symbol in the "Name" column are italicised to denote secretary managers.
By individual
Bold: Manager is still a ...
References
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1883 births
1963 deaths
English footballers
English football managers
Bury F.C. players
Accrington Stanley F.C. (1891) players
Arsenal F.C. players
Arsenal F.C. managers
Footballers from Bury, Greater Manchester
Arsenal F.C. non-playing staff
Association football defenders