Jimmy Windridge	Chelsea FC 8 appearances, 7 goals P 8 W 7 D 1 L 0 F 43: A 5 94% successful 1908-09 captain: none minutes played: 720
Timeline
	James Edwin Windridge
Birth	21 October 1882 in Sparkwood, Birmingham, Warwickshire [registered in Aston, December 1882]. Sparkwood is confirmed by his 1911 and 1921 census'
	According to the 1891 census, James is the fourth of five children to James and Harriet (née Bird), living at 113 Bolton Road in Bordesley area of Aston, Birmingham. His father is a gun implement trimmer.
	According to the 1901 census, James, a gun rifler for the Birmingham Small Arms Company, still lives at home with his parents with four of his siblings, three older, one younger, still at 113 Bolton Road. His father is the assistant foreman at the gunmakers.
	According to the 1911 census, James is a professional footballer boarding with John Denoon in the Bragg household, at 43b Barclay Road in Fulham..
Marriage	to Nellie Beatrice Codson, 6 July 1918 at St. Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston, Birmingham [registered in King's Norton, September 1918]. A lewis gunmaker by trade, living at 119 Bristol Road.
	According to the 1921 census, James Edwin is now married to Nellie Beatrice, and together they are living at 57 Evesham Road in the Crabbs Cross area of Redditch, where he is a publican at The Star & Garter Inn. They have one barmaid, Clara Mary Sutton. According to the Midland Electoral Registers, James and Nellie occupied the Bulls Head (left) on Stratford Road from at least 1922 until his death
	According to the 1939 register, Nellie B. is now a widower, living at The Bull's Head in Moseley. Jimmy had died only six days prior to this register being taken.
Death	23 September 1939, at The Bull's Head Hotel, 1320 Stratford Road, Moseley, Birmingham, aged 56 years 337 days [registered in Birmingham, September 1939]. Left £2918 17s. 6d. to his widow, Nellie Beatrice Windridge
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &
Playing Career
Club(s)	Began his junior career with local amateur side, Small Heath Alma FC before he joined the local league side, Small Heath FC in the 1902-03 close season. After seven goals in 26 league appearances, Chelsea FC, in April 1905, paid a £190 transfer fee for him, in return, Windridge scored 54 goals in 143 league outings. Middlesbrough FC then signed Windridge on 28 November 1911 for a fee exceeding £1000, making another 68 league appearances, but only scoring eleven goals, before he returned to his roots when he returned to Birmingham FC (the team formerly known as Small Heath FC) on 8 April 1914. He scored another eleven goals, but only needed 29 league outings to do so. He retired from playing during WW1, although he did guest for the BSA football team during the war.
Club honours	None
Individual honours	None
Distinctions	Also played first-class cricket for Warwickshire CCC (seven matches, 1909-13)
Height/Weight	5' 7", 11st. 7lbs [1908].
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].
England Career
Player number	One of three who became the 330th players (332) to appear for England.
Position(s)	Inside-left
First match	No. 92, 15 February 1908, Ireland 1 England 3, a British Championship match at Solitude Ground, Cliftonville, Belfast, aged 25 years 117 days.
Last match	No. 99, 13 February 1909, England 4 Ireland 0, a British Championship match at Horton Park Avenue, Horton Park, Bradford, aged 26 years 115 days.
Major tournaments	British Championship 1907-08, 1908-09;
Team honours	British Championship shared 1907-08, winners 1908-09;
Individual honours	None
Distinctions	Cousin of Alec Leake, through the Bird family Died sixteen days after Tom Booth
Beyond England
Became a licensee, evidently first in The Woolpack Hotel, then in the Bull's Head Hotel, in the Hall's Green area of Birmingham. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.273. Whilst he was a licensee, particularly in The Woolpack, Windridge organised snooker championships, to raise funds for the war effort, and also, on one account, for the men in Ruhleben Camp

Jimmy Windridge - Career Statistics
Squads	Apps	comp. apps	Mins.		goals ave.min	comp. goals	Capt.	Disc.
8	8	4	720	7	103 min	2	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.

Jimmy Windridge - Match History
Club: Chelsea F.C. - 8 full appearances F.A. International Select Committee - 8 full capsx
Age 25
1	92	15 February 1908 - Ireland 1 England 3, Solitude Ground, Belfast	BC	AW	Start	il
2	93	16 March 1908 - Wales 1 England 7, Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff		AW	Start 25	il
3	94	4 April 1908 - Scotland 1 England 1, Hampden Park, Glasgow		AD	Start 74	il
4	95	6 June 1908 - Austria 1 England 6, Cricketer Platz, Wien	tour	AW	Start 21, 38	il
5	96	8 June 1908 - Austria 1 England 11, Hohe Warte Stadion, Wien		AW	Start 6	il
6	97	10 June 1908 - Hungary 0 England 7, Millenáris Sportpálya, Buda-Pesth		AW	Start 30	il
7	98	13 June 1908 - Bohemia 0 England 4, Stadión Letná, Praha		AW	Start 38	il
Age 26
8	99	13 February 1909 - England 4 Ireland 0, Horton Park Avenue, Bradford	BC	HW	Start	il

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