Fred Pagnam (4 September 1891 – 1 March 1962) was an English

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and

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. Pagnam played as a forward in the Football League for clubs

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, Blackpool,

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, Arsenal, Cardiff City and

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, and in non-league football for

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, Blackpool Wednesday,

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and

Gainsborough Trinity Gainsborough Trinity Football Club is a football club based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England. Established in 1873, the club became members of the Football League in 1893 and remained members of the Second Division until 1912, making Gainsbo ...

. As manager, he took charge of Watford,

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, the Turkish national team, and several clubs in the Netherlands.

Playing career

Pagnam, the son of a bank manager, was born in

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, where he attended

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. He played football for Birchall Boys' Club and for

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clubs

and Blackpool Wednesday before joining

in 1910. He played for the reserves but not for the first team, and after a spell with

of the

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, he joined

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. By early 1913, the club was struggling financially, and the directors offered the players a choice: a wage cut or a free transfer. Pagnam took the latter, and moved on to Blackpool. He scored just once in 23

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appearances, spent time with another Midland League team,

, and signed for

in 1914. Pagnam scored on his Reds debut, against

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on 10 October 1914, and scored four against

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a couple of weeks later. He went on to score 26 goals that season and was Liverpool's top scorer. His time at Liverpool coincided with a conspiracy by some Liverpool players to rig a match with Manchester United. This was in order to profit from betting on the result, in what became known as the

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. Pagnam refused to take part in the conspiracy and even threatened to score a goal to ruin the prearranged result. United won 2–0 as agreed, but four Liverpool players and three United players were eventually found guilty of match-fixing by

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, with Pagnam testifying against his teammates. The outbreak of the

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meant competitive football was suspended at the end of the 1914–15 season. Pagnam continued to play for Liverpool during the war, as well as making guest appearances for teams including Arsenal, Belfast Celtic and Blackpool. When football resumed after hostilities ceased, he played only eight more matches for the club before being sold to Arsenal for a £1,500 fee in October 1919. Pagnam made his Arsenal debut against

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on 25 October 1919. He was moderately prolific in his first season, scoring twelve League goals, although Harry White finished higher in the scoring charts. The next season, 1920–21, Pagnam finished as Arsenal's top scorer with 14 goals, despite having been sold to Cardiff City in March 1921 for £3,000Arsenal were quite strapped for cash at the time. In all he scored 27 goals in 53 appearances for Arsenal. Select season required. He lasted just nine months at Cardiff. His six goals from 14 appearances helped them gain promotion to the First Division in their first season in the Football League, but he was less successful at the higher level, and moved on to

of the

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in December 1921 for a club-record fee of £1,000. In five seasons and 144 league matches, he scored 67 goals (74 from 157 appearances in all competitions) for Watford, and was the Third Division South top scorer in 1922–23 with 30 goals.

Managerial career

In 1926, Pagnam became Watford's manager; he spent three years in the job but achieved little. Watford finished 21st out of 22 in his first season but improved to 8th in 1928–29. After leaving Watford, he managed

and the Turkish national team. Pagnam then coached in the Netherlands at DWV,

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, De Volewijckers, HFC Haarlem and CVV Vriendenschaar.

Personal life

Pagnam served in the

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and the London Regiment during the

. He was declared a

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on 20 April 1918. At the outbreak of the

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, he returned to the UK with his Dutch wife to run a pub. Pagnam died in 1962 aged 70.

Honours

As a player

Watford *

top scorer: 1922–23

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pagnam, Fred 1891 births 1962 deaths Military personnel from Lancashire People from Poulton-le-Fylde English footballers Association football forwards Lytham F.C. players Blackpool F.C. players Huddersfield Town A.F.C. players Doncaster Rovers F.C. players Southport F.C. players Gainsborough Trinity F.C. players Liverpool F.C. players Arsenal F.C. players Cardiff City F.C. players Watford F.C. players English Football League players Arsenal F.C. wartime guest players Blackpool F.C. wartime guest players English football managers Watford F.C. managers Galatasaray S.K. (football) managers Turkey national football team managers HVV Den Haag managers AFC DWS managers English Football League managers Expatriate football managers in Turkey Expatriate football managers in the Netherlands English expatriate football managers AVV De Volewijckers managers British Army personnel of World War I Royal Garrison Artillery soldiers London Regiment soldiers Deserters English expatriate sportspeople in Turkey