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Albert Barrett

Fulham FC

1 appearance, 0 goals

P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F 3: A 0
100% successful

1929

captain: none
minutes played:
90

Timeline

  Albert Frank Barrett
Birth 11 November 1903 in West Ham, Stratford, Essex [registered in West Ham, December 1903].
Baptism 24 July 1904 at All Saints' Church in West Ham
 

According to the 1911 census, Albert is the youngest of three sons, with a younger sister, to George William and Frances Elizabeth (née Perkins). They live at 50 Ham Park Road in the West Ham area of Stratford. His father is a wallpaper printer.

 

According to the 1921 census, Albert is an accountancy clerk and is the middle of fie children still living at home with their parents at 50 Ham Park Road.
According to passenger lists, Barrett, along with other footballers, was part of a tour of South Africa that returned to Southampton on 6 August 1929 from Cape Town on board the SS Arundel Castle. His address was stated as 50 Ham Park Road, Stratford.

Marriage to Eva M. Lilley in 1930 [registered in West Ham, March 1930]. They had two children, Brian F. (b.1931) and Neville A. (b.1932).
  According to the 1939 register, Albert F. owns a shop that is newsagents and tobacconists/confectioners, as well as sells medicines and makes motor coach bookings, and he is married to Eva M., and they live at 89 Levett Gardens in Ilford.
Death 8 December 1989 in Cape Town, South Africa, aged 86 years 27 days [no record found].

Source

Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &

Playing Career

Club(s) Played schoolboy football in West Ham, including Fairbairn House FC, an East End Settlement club, and then Leytonstone FC and Middlesex Wanderers FC in 1921. In 1923, Barrett signed amateur forms with West Ham United FC, but he did not make any appearances. He signed similar forms with Southampton FC in 1924/25, where he made a single league appearance. It was at Fulham FC that he signed his professional contract, in June 1925. Despite an attempt by Manchester City FC and Tottenham Hotspur FC to sign him in February 1929, Barrett remained at Craven Cottage until he retired in 1937, having made 388 league appearances, scoring sixteen times.
Club honours Football League Division Three (South) winners 1931-32;
Individual honours FA Charity Shield runners-up with Amateurs 1924;
Distinctions Appointed chairman of the Players' and Trainers' Union on 24 August 1936. He was one of the first players to call for full-time referee's, back in February 1937.
Height/Weight 5' 10", 11st. 5lbs [1929].

Source

Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].

England Career

Player number One of two who became the 545th players (545) to appear for England.
Position(s) Half-back
Only match No. 168, 19 October 1929, Ireland 0 England 3, a British Championship match at Windsor Park, Donegall Avenue, Belfast, aged 25 years 342 days.
Major tournaments British Championship 1929-30;
Team honours British Championship winners 1929-30;
Individual honours England Amateurs (four appearances), England Schoolboy (one appearance). FA Tour of South Africa 1929
Distinctions None

Beyond England

Continued to work as an accountant after turning professional. In the years following WW2, he was the secretary of wholesale firm in Romford market after the war and emigrated to South Africa in 1954. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.26.

 

Albert Barrett - Career Statistics
Squads Apps comp. apps Mins. Goals goals ave.min comp. goals Capt. Disc.
1 1 1 90 0 0 min 0 none none
minutes are an approximation, due to the fact that many matches rarely stick to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time for injuries and errors.

 

Albert Barrett - Match Record - All Matches - By Type of Match
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
Away - British Championship 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 0 1 3.00 0.00 100.0 +1
All 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 0 1 3.00 0.00 100.0 +1

 

Albert Barrett - Match Record - Tournament Matches
British Championship Competition
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
BC 1929-30 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 0 1 3.00 0.00 100.0 +1
BC All 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 0 1 3.00 0.00 100.0 +1
All Competition
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
BC 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 0 1 3.00 0.00 100.0 +1
All 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 0 1 3.00 0.00 100.0 +1

 

Albert Barrett - Match History
 

 Club: Fulham F.C. - one full appearance (90 min)

F.A. International Selection Committee - one full appearance (90 min)x

Age 25
1 168 19 October 1929 - Ireland 0 England 3, Windsor Park, Belfast BC AW Start hb

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