Footballers who have played league football for PNE & Southampton since 1888
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925) ORMEROD Brett (PNE signed Jan 2006 35 apps 9 gls) (Soton 98 apps 12 gls)
382) ROWLEY Dick (PNE signed 1931/32 51 apps 14 gls) (Soton 104 apps 52 gls)
351) WARD Frank (PNE signed 1927/28 208 apps 3 gls) (Soton 27 apps 0 gls)
492) WAYMAN Charlie (PNE signed Sept 50 157 apps 105 gls) (Soton 100 apps 73 gls)
697) WILLIAMS Oshor (PNE signed Aug 86 39 apps 12 gls) (Soton 7 apps 0 gls)
702) WORTHINGTON Frank (PNE signed Feb 87 23 apps 3 gls) (Soton 34 apps 4 gls)
PROFILE Charlie Wayman
Charles Wayman was born in Bishop Auckland on 16 May 1922. Wayman like many started his working life in the local coalfield, but, after excelling in the Chilton Colliery football team he moved up to non-League Spennymoor United, he asked Newcastle United for a trial, which earned him a contract in September 1941.
During the war he served as an able seaman in the Royal Navy before returning to essential work in the mines Wayman scored 35 goals in 71 games for the Magpies in unofficial war time competitions as well as a guest for Portsmouth briefly.
When football resumed after the war, Wayman was Second Division Newcastle's first-choice inside-left, making his senior debut in an FA Cup tie against Barnsley in January 1946. The following autumn Wayman led the forward line.
His first game at centre-forward, against Newport County at St James' Park, was to prove eventful. After missing a first minute penalty, he netted four times, then contributed significantly to a double hat-trick for a debutant Len Shackleton as Newport were thrashed 13-0, a Football League record.
Quick both in movement and anticipation a lethal finisher and accomplished ball player he was instantly effective, scoring four hat-tricks that season. One of them was in the 4th round of the FA Cup, against Southampton, helping Newcastle to win 3-1 after the Saints had taken the lead.
The 1946/47 season saw Wayman scored 34 goals in 46 outings but Newcastle narrowly failed to gain promotion. But when Wayman had a mild disagreement with the trainer Norman Smith on the eve of an FA Cup semi-final against Charlton the club took a dim view of perceived insubordination and was controversially dropped for the match and the Magpies lost 4- 0.
There was turbulence at the club; other players were threatening strike action over a housing dispute. But the truth of Wayman's disagreement never came out publicly, his relationship with Newcastle never recovered and in October 1947 he was sold to Southampton, also of Division Two, for a club record fee of £10,000. Wayman had scored 32 goals in 47 appearances for the Magpies.
It was a transfer which upset many supporters, but it caused to move Jackie Milburn to centre-forward, a position he excelled as the Magpies lifted the FA Cup three times in the early 1950's.
Wayman's move to the south coast, where he had been promised "a strawberries- and-cream life style" was a vivid contrast to his gritty north-eastern upbringing. Wayman was seen as the catalyst for the future success of a rapidly improving side which included the full-back Alf Ramsey and the dynamic inside-forward Ted Bates. who later became Southampton 's manager.
Sadly for the Saints, Wayman's 17 goals in 27 appearances could not haul them out of the Second Division as in those days only the top two were promoted.
The 1947-48 season saw Southampton take third place, four points behind second place Newcastle and seven behind champions Birmingham .
The following season saw them as racing certainties to be promoted, with Wayman scoring 32 goals including a five-goal spree at home to Leicester City in October 1948 which is still a Southampton record today. In the end an injury caused him to miss the last five games. Southampton won no more games, finished in third place again, a point behind West Brom and two behind the champions Fulham.
The Saints finished fourth by goal average in 1949/50 with both Sheffield clubs finishing above Southampton on 52 points with Tottenham as Champions. Wayman had scored 24 goals from 36 appearances including a hat-trick against Hull.
With his family not settling in the south, Wayman wanted a move back to the north. Thus in September 1950 he was transferred to Preston £10,000 plus Eddy Brown. Wayman had scored 73 goals in 100 appearances for Southampton.
Wayman made his debut for PNE in a 1-0 defeat at Birmingham on 9 September 1950. Wayman was top scorer for PNE in 1950/51 with 27 league goals. This included scoring all four goals as at QPR as PNE won 4-1 on Christmas Day. The following month Wayman scored at hat-trick in a 4-0 win at Grimsby and in the season that Preston won the Second Division title, five points above Manchester City Wayman had also scored a brace in seven different matches.
Wayman finished top scorer again the following season with 24 league goals including a hat-trick at Arsenal in a 3-3 draw.
The 1952/53 season saw Preston finish runners up to Arsenal for the First Division title as for the third season in a row Wayman was the top scorer with 23 league goals. Wayman also scored consecutive hat-tricks as PNE beat Middlesbrough 3-0 on 3 January and Wolves 5-2 in the FA Cup a week later.
The 1953/54 season saw Wayman as top scorer for PNE again with 25 goals and was the only player in the entire football league to have scored 20 or more goals in each of the last six seasons. Wayman scored an hat-trick in the 6-2 win against Sunderland. Wayman also scored in every round of the FA Cup, as he hit the net seven times from his eight appearances, including one in the 3-2 defeat against West Brom in the Final at Wembley.
The opening game of the 1954/55 season saw Wayman score a hat-trick in the 5-0 win against Manchester City which also marked his hundredth league goal for the Whites. His next match he scored a brace as PNE thrashed Cardiff 7-1. His sixth goal of the season was in his last match for PNE as Preston lost 2-1 at home to Chelsea on 15 September 1954. Then in a shock move Wayman returned to his North East roots to join Second Division Middlesbrough, Wayman had scored 105 goals in 157 appearances for PNE.
Wayman was joint top scorer for Middlesbrough in the 1954/55 season with 16 goals, and scored another 15 in the 1955/56 season. But because of injury, goals ceased to flow, and in December 1956 he was sold to Darlington in the Third Division North. Wayman had scored 31 goals in 55 appearances for Middlesbrough.
Wayman scored eight goals in 16 matches for Darlington in 1956/57. The following season, though able to make only seven appearances, he scored six times before hanging up his boots.
Throughout his career he scored 250 goals in 382 appearances.
Wayman later coached briefly, served as a brewery representative and retired to the north-east. He was married with four sons and two daughters.
Charles Wayman died on February 28th 2006.