Edmund Crawford
{{short description|English footballer and manager}}
{{for|the Scottish landscape and marine painter|Edmund Thornton Crawford}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Edmond Crawford
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1906|10|31|df=y}}
| birth_place = Filey, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1977|12|13|1906|10|31|df=y}}
| death_place = London, England
| position = Forward
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| years3 = 1922–1923
| years4 = 1929–1931
| years5 = 1931–1932
| years6 = 1932–1933
| years7 = 1933–1945
| clubs1 = Scarborough
| clubs2 = Scarborough Penguins
| clubs3 = Filey Town
| clubs4 = Filey Town
| clubs5 = Halifax Town
| clubs6 = Liverpool
| clubs7 = Clapton Orient
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| caps6 = 8
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| goals6 = 4
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| manageryears1 =
| manageryears2 = 1950–1951
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| manageryears4 = 1953–1954
| manageryears5 = 1956–1957
| managerclubs1 = Degerfors IF
| managerclubs2 = Bologna
| managerclubs3 = Livorno
| managerclubs4 = AEK Athens
| managerclubs5 = Barnet
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Edmond Crawford (31 October 1906 – 13 December 1977) was an English footballer and football manager.
Playing career
Crawford started his career as an amateur when joining his two brothers at Filey Town in February 1922. He moved to Scarborough Penguins in 1923, then to Scarborough before returning to Filey Town for two seasons in 1929, where he set a local league record by scoring 141 goals in 73 matches. His first professional contract was at Halifax Town in 1931. He then signed for Liverpool where he scored 4 goals in 8 matches.{{cite web|url=http://www.lfchistory.net/player_profile.asp?player_id=588|title=Edmund Crawford Profile|work=LFCHistory.net|access-date=2009-04-05}} In 1933, he joined Clapton Orient, where he ended his playing career. He played his last 6 years with an undiagnosed broken ankle.{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article1029531.ece|title=Storyteller supreme who lit up the coaching world|work=Brian Glanville, The Times|access-date=2009-04-05 | location=London | date=2003-11-29}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
Coaching career
After the World War II, he started his coaching career in Sweden with Degerfors IF. He then went to Italy, at Bologna, as George Raynor told him there was a job. He then went to Livorno, AEK Athens and Barnet, and also later assisted at Crewe Alexandra.
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Category:English men's footballers
Category:Men's association football forwards
Category:Halifax Town A.F.C. players
Category:Liverpool F.C. players
Category:Leyton Orient F.C. players
Category:Watford F.C. wartime guest players
Category:English football managers
Category:Bologna FC 1909 managers
Category:US Livorno 1915 managers
Category:AEK Athens F.C. managers
Category:Footballers from North Yorkshire
Category:Scarborough F.C. players
Category:English expatriate football managers
Category:Expatriate football managers in Sweden
Category:Expatriate football managers in Greece
Category:Expatriate football managers in Italy
Category:English expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Category:English expatriate sportspeople in Italy