Stan Rickaby

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| name = Stan Rickaby

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| full_name = Stanley Rickaby

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1924|3|12}}

| birth_place = Stockton-on-Tees, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2014|2|08|1924|3|12}}

| death_place = Perth, Australia

| height =

| position = Right-back

| youthyears1 = 1940–1941

| youthclubs1 = South Bank

| youthyears2 = 1941–1946

| youthclubs2 = Middlesbrough

| years1 = 1946–1950

| clubs1 = Middlesbrough

| caps1 = 10

| goals1 = 0

| years2 = 1950–1955

| clubs2 = West Bromwich Albion

| caps2 = 189

| goals2 = 2

| years3 = 1955–1960

| clubs3 = Poole Town (player-manager)

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| years4 = 1960–1961

| clubs4 = Weymouth

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| years5 = 1963–1964

| clubs5 = Newton Abbot Spurs

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| nationalyears1 = 1953

| nationalteam1 = England

| nationalcaps1 = 1

| nationalgoals1 = 0

}}

Stanley Rickaby (12 March 1924 – 8 February 2014){{cite web |title=England players: Stan Rickaby |url=http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamPlyrsBios/PlayersR/BioRickabyS.html |website=englandfootballonline |date=12 May 2016|accessdate=3 October 2018}} was an English footballer who played as a right-back.

Career

Rickaby was born in Stockton-on-Tees. He began his career with South Bank in 1940 and in July of the following year joined Middlesbrough as an amateur. He turned professional with Boro in July 1946. In February 1950 he signed for West Bromwich Albion for a fee of £7,500. He made his only appearance for England on 11 November 1953, in a 3–1 win against Northern Ireland at Goodison Park.{{Englandstats|ref=y|access-date=3 October 2018}} A leg injury sustained in the 1954 FA Cup semi-final against Port Vale meant that Rickaby missed the final, but he nevertheless received a winner's medal, having played in all the previous rounds of the competition. He took up the role of player-manager at Poole Town in the Southern Football League in June 1955, where he was sacked from the manager position in December 1959 and replaced by the former Real Madrid manager Michael Keeping.Keeping Gets Poole Job, Daily Mail (London), 21 January 1959, p. 9. After this he moved to Weymouth. Rickaby transferred to Newton Abbot Spurs in August 1963 before retiring as a player a year later.{{cite book | last = Matthews | first = Tony | title = The Who's Who of West Bromwich Albion | publisher = Breedon Books | year = 2005 | page = 195 | isbn = 1-85983-474-4}}

Later life

Rickaby moved to Australia in the late 1960s to work with Aboriginal communities and published his autobiography in 2002.

Death

He died on Saturday 8 February in Perth, Western Australia from natural causes at the age of 89. News of his death only reached the United Kingdom on 3 March 2014.[http://www.westannouncements.com.au/obituaries/thewest-au/obituary.aspx?n=stanley-rickaby&pid=169618227 Obituary] As a tribute to Rickaby, a minute's applause took place prior to West Bromwich Albion's home game against Manchester United on 8 March.{{cite news|first=Giles|last=Mole|title=West Bromwich Albion v Manchester United: live| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/10681288/West-Bromwich-Albion-v-Manchester-United-live.html| publisher=Daily Telegraph| date=8 March 2014 | accessdate=11 March 2014}}