Seasiders and Whites

Last updated : 04 August 2013 By @pnemad

No.

Player

PNE apps

PNE goals

779

 CRAIG ALLARDYCE

1

0

889

MARLON BROOMES

77

0

149

ARTHUR BROWN

23

7

413

ALBERT BUTTERWORTH

14

4

853

DARREN BYFIELD

6

1

503

LES CAMPBELL

70

7

1006

CLARKE CARLISLE

27

3

569

RAY CHARNLEY

25

7

554

TONY COLEMAN

5

1

785

MIKE CONROY

69

24

155

LAWRENCE COOK

4

0

553

BILL CRANSTON

99

2

290

BOBBY CRAWFORD

407

18

862

ROB EDWARDS

197

5

717

TONY ELLIS

189

86

847

DAVID EYRES

130

25

731

MIKE FLYNN

162

8

244

WILF GILLOW

7

1

208

BENNY GREEN

75

23

758

COLIN GREENALL

29

1

471

WILLIE HALL

7

0

92

LAURENCE HALSALL

58

7

688

PHIL HARRINGTON

2

0

302

GEORGE HARRISON

284

72

886

COLIN HENDRY

2

0

918

MATT HILL

117

0

594

MEL HOLDEN

82

27

574

GERRY INGRAM

124

44

749

MATT JACKSON

5

0

841

MICHAEL JACKSON

283

19

934

JASON JARRETT

20

1

895

SIMON LYNCH

46

3

634

ANDY McATEER

291

10

366

JIM MCCELLAND

55

22

434

JIMMY MCINTOSH

31

3

449

WILLIE McINTOSH

99

54

262

BILLY MERCER

121

0

513

GORDON MILNE

90

3

274

JAMES MITCHELL

29

0

548

KIT NAPIER

1

0

928

ADAM NOWLAND

14

3

419

FRANK O'DONNELL

101

48

420

HUGH O'DONNELL

148

34

933

BRETT ORMEROD

68

14

842

PARKINSON

104

8

722

PATTERSON

67

20

80

TOM PRATT

156

49

270

PETER QUINN

100

10

347

ALEC REID

201

50

770

BARRY SIDDALL

1

0

374

BILLY TREMELLING

230

12

432

DICKIE WATMOUGH

26

4

756

NEIL WHITWORTH

6

0

378

GEORGE WOLF

49

0

 

Player Profile – Albert Butterworth

Albert Butterworth was born in Ashton-under-Lyne on 20 March 1912; the winger started his career with Manchester United but didn’t make a league appearance for the club.

For the 1932/33 season Butterworth joined First Division Blackpool and made his Blackpool debut in a 2-1 home defeat to Arsenal. His first goals came on his sixth appearance with a brace in a 4-1 home win over Liverpool on 26 November. Butterworth scored in his next match with the only goal in a win at Huddersfield. Butterworth made 13 league appearances during the season which saw Blackpool relegated to Division Two.

The following season he made 9 league appearances with 2 goals, both coming in a 4-home victory over Fulham on 4 September.  His last appearance for Blackpool came in a 2-2 draw at home to Millwall on 10 February; Butterworth had netted 5 goals in 22 matches for the Seassiders.

Butterworth joined First Division Preston and made his Lilywhite debut in a 3-1 home win over Blackburn on 10 November 1934 but had to wait until 4 May 1935 for his next appearance in a 0-0 draw at West Brom.

His first goal for PNE came in his second appearance of the 1935/36 campaign with a 5-1 defeat at Aston Villa on 14 September. A week later came his second goal with a 2-0 home win over Wolves. Butterworth’s scored on his final match for Preston in a 4-2 defeat at Brentford on 26 December to take his total to 4 goals in 14 League appearances for PNE.

For the 1936/37 season Butterworth joined Third Division side Bristol Rovers and made his debut on 14 November with a 2-0 defeat at Luton. A week later he scored on his home debut with a 5-1 victory against Cardiff.  This was his most productive in front of goal in his career with 6 goals from 28 appearances.  The 1937/38 season he made the same number of appearances as the previous season but with 2 goals.

The 1938/39 season saw him make his most appearances in his career with 39, scoring a further 4 goals and to take his Rovers league tally to 13 goals in 95 matches. Butterworth made appearances in the 1939/40 season which was abandoned due to the outbreak of WWII.

For his next appearance for Bristol Rovers he had to wait until 1945/46 with 4 FA Cup matches. The second match of that campaign saw him score a brace in a 4-1 win over non-league Swindon on 24 November to give Rovers a 4-2 aggregate win in Round One. His next match saw him score a further brace but lost 4-2 at non-league Bristol City His final match a week later was the second leg Round Two a week later with a 2-0 defeat against Bristol City.

Albert Butterworth died in 1991.