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Mike
Hellawell |
Birmingham City FC
2
appearances, 0 goals
P 2 W 1 D 1 L 0 F
4:
A 2
75%
successful
1962
captain: none
minutes played: 180 |
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Timeline |
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Michael Stephen Hellawell |
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Birth |
Thursday, 30 June 1938 at St. John's Hospital in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire.
To Alfred and Eileen (née
McCormack), living at 12 Sladen Street in Keighley. |
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registered in Keighley July-September 1938 |
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Education |
Attended St Bede's College,
Bradford |
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Marriage |
to Maureen Brenda Paton, in mid-1960 |
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registered in Worth Valley July-September 1960 |
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Midlands Electoral Registers places MIchael at 8 Ann Croft in
Birmingham in 1965. |
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Death |
Tuesday, 18 July 2023, in Keighley, West Yorkshire |
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aged 85 years 18 days |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Biographies |
The
Impossible is Possible: Michael Hellawell (independently
published, 27 December 2020) |
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Playing
Career |
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Club(s) |
Started his
football career with Salts FC, as well as signing amateur forms with
Huddersfield Town AFC. Joined Queen's Park Rangers FC as a professional on
16 August 1955.
Birmingham City FC signed Hellawell on 15 May 1957 for a fee and Bill
Finney. George Hardwick's Sunderland AFC paid
£27,599 for him on 23 January 1965, but after being placed on the
open-to-transfer list at the end of the following season, he returned to Huddersfield Town AFC
on 22 September 1966 for £15,000. Peterborough United FC picked his
signature for £4000 on 30 November 1968 before ending his career with
Bromsgrove Rovers from August 1969. |
League honours
320+2 appearances 41 goals |
Queen's
Park Rangers FC 1956-57 45 appearances seven goals
debut
(division 3S): 25 February 1956 Queen's Park Rangers FC 1 Exeter City FC
0.
Birmingham City FC 1957-65 178 appearances thirty
goals
debut: 7 September 1957 Birmingham City FC 1
Newcastle United FC 4.
Sunderland AFC 1965-66 43+one
appearances three goals
debut: 6 February 1966 Sunderland AFC 1
Blackpool FC 0
Huddersfield Town AFC 1966-68 45+one
appearances one goal
debut (division 2): 24 September 1966 Derby County
FC 4 Huddersfield Town AFC 3.
Peterborough United FC
1968-69 nine appearances
debut (division 4): 26 December 1968 Southend
United FC 2 Peterborough United FC 1.
last (division 4): 22 March 1969
Peterborough United FC 2 York City FC 1. |
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Club honours |
Fairs Cup runners-up 1960-61;
Football League Cup
winners 1962-63;
Football League Division One
best 1958-59 ninth place (1ᵃ);
FA Cup best
1960-61 fifth round (3ᵃ) |
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Individual honours |
Football
League Division Three (South) (one appearance)
Played one
match for Warwickshire CC against Oxford University CC in 1962. |
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Distinctions |
Brother of John
Hellawell (Bradford City AFC, Rotherham United FC, Darlington FC,
Bradford FC 1963-68) |
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Height/Weight |
5'
11", 11st.
6lbs [1963]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of four who
became the 807th
players (807) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Outside-right |
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First match |
No. 363, 3 October 1962, England 1
France 1, a European Nations Cup preliminary match at Hillsborough
Stadium, Owlerton, Sheffield, aged 24 years
95 days. |
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Last match |
No. 364, 20 October 1962, Northern
Ireland 1 England 3, a British Championship match at Windsor
Park, Donegall Avenue, Belfast, aged 24 years 112 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British
Championship 1962-63; |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
no additional information. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.126.
"On leaving school, he
began work as a colour-matcher in a textile mill." - Acton
Gazette, Friday, 19 August 1955 |
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