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Wallsend Boys Club is an English youth football club based in Wallsend, North Tyneside. The club is well known for producing professional footballers; more than 65 players from the club have gone on to play professionally.^[1]^[2]^[3] They also have an adult team that plays in the {{English football updater|WallseBC}}.

History

The club was founded in 1904 by the employees and directors of Swan Hunters Shipyard in order to provide recreational activities for the apprentices and young people in the area and initially specialised in boxing.^[1] The original club premises were a series of wooden huts on Station Road, erected by workers from the shipyard. A fire destroyed the original premises and work commenced on the current club building in 1964, which was opened on 16 December 1966.^[4]

Club activities in the early days were mainly snooker, trampolining, judo, table tennis, cross country running and football. Various fund raising activities were held, including a "pram push" across England and a 24-hour relay race from Wallsend to Edinburgh Castle and back.^[4]

In 1975, the club opened seven days a week and formed a separate sub-committee for 11-a-side football. Over the years, the 11-a-side representative teams have won hundreds of trophies in local and national competitions.^[4] The club has gained a formidable reputation for the early development of many professional footballers.^[4]

In 2008, the club was awarded the Freedom of the City of North Tyneside, in recognition of what the deputy mayor called the club's "factory line of talent", and for its community work.^[5]

In June 2011, the club opened its first football centre, prior to which they had to play on park and local authority pitches.^[2] The facility, for which negotiations began in 2006,^[6] which is situated next to Wallsend Sports Centre on Rheydt Avenue,^[7] has:

It was funded by grants of £850,000 from the Football Foundation, £150,000 from The FA and £301,000 from North Tyneside Council with the club itself raising £114,000 towards the scheme.^[2]

The Station Road headquarters of the club was demolished in the February and March 2012, following high winds in January which damaged one of the walls of the building.^[8]

Former players

International representation

The club has had a representative at four of the six FIFA World Cup finals since 1986, with the two exceptions coming in 1994, when the England national football team did not qualify, and 2002. In 1986 and 1990 Peter Beardsley starred for England.^[10] In 1998 Alan Shearer was England captain.^[11] Michael Carrick made appearances for England in both the 2006 and 2010 tournaments.^[12] Fraser Forster was in the 2014 squad but did not make an appearance.

Alan Thompson received one full cap for England in 2004, and Fraser Forster did the same in 2013, while numerous other former players have made youth or B international appearances.

References

1. ^¹{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/newcastle-united/8851076/No-end-in-sight-to-Wallsend-production-line.html | title=No end in sight to Wallsend production line | publisher=Daily Telegraph | date=26 October 2011 | accessdate=7 December 2011 | author=White, Jim}}
2. ^¹²{{cite web|title=World famous Wallsend Boys’ Club officially opens its first football facility|url=http://www.northumberlandfa.com/News/2011/06/WorldFamousWallsendBoysClubOfficiallyOpensItsFirstFootballFacility.htm|publisher=Northumberland FA|accessdate=7 December 2011|date=29 June 2011}}
3. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2366285/Wallsend-still-building-for-the-future.html|title=Wallsend still building for the future|publisher=Daily Telegraph|date=6 Oct 2005}}
4. ^¹²³{{cite web|title=Wallsend Boys Club heritage|url=http://www.wallsendboysclub.org/aboutus.html|work=Our History|publisher=Wallsend Boys Club|accessdate=7 December 2011}}
5. ^{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7242220.stm|title=Honour for Shearer's youth club|publisher=BBC News|date=13 Feb 2008}}
6. ^{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4809882.stm|title=Expansion hope for football club|date=15 March 2006|publisher=BBC News}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=Wallsend Boys move to new home|url=http://www.wallsendboysclub.org/uploads/News/wallsend_move_new_home.html|publisher=Wallsend Boys Club|accessdate=7 December 2011|date=21 March 2006}}
8. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.newsguardian.co.uk/news/local/end-of-era-as-club-is-reduced-to-rubble-and-memories-video-1-4300171|title=End of era as club is reduced to rubble and memories|date=1 March 2012|publisher=News Guardian|accessdate=6 July 2012}}
9. ^{{cite web|title=Ex-players|url=http://www.wallsendboysclub.org/uploads/News/updatedex-players.htm|archive-url=https://archive.is/20130416025251/http://www.wallsendboysclub.org/uploads/News/updatedex-players.htm|dead-url=yes|archive-date=16 April 2013|publisher=Wallsend Boys Club|accessdate=7 December 2011}}
10. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2326979/Peter-Beardsley-indebted-to-his-Wallsend-roots.html|title=Peter Beardsley indebted to his Wallsend roots|publisher=Daily Telegraph|date=29 Nov 2007}}
11. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/wallsend-boys-benefit-as-shearer-hands-16316m-to-charity-421766.html|title=Wallsend Boys benefit as Shearer hands £1.6m to charity|publisher=The Independent|date=27 Oct 2006}}
12. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1293532/Sunderland-make-7m-Manchester-United-midfielder-Carrick.html|title=Sunderland make £7 million move for Manchester United midfielder Carrick|publisher=Daily Mail|date=10 July 2010}}

History

Former players

International representation

References

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