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Arthur Turner (footballer, born 1921)

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on 31 August 1950. Turner made 36 appearances in Colchester's inaugural Football League season, scoring twelve goals, but injury restricted him to only nine further appearances, and he retired from football in the summer of 1951, although he did subsequently return to the Southern League with
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to be played this season; to make up for the lack of quality matches, all FA Cup rounds from round one up to and including the quarter-finals were made two-legged ties (rather than the traditional single matches) with the aggregate score determining who went through to the next round.
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in which 33 spectators were killed as a result of overcrowding. Charlton won the semi-final to set up a Cup Final against
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who was endeavouring to build a side capable of obtaining election from the
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born Turner was a 22-year-old RAF officer who played part-time for
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Turner scored Colchester's first Football League goal at
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The Who's Who of Colchester United: The Layer Road Years
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who never played a League game for his club, since the
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Footballers from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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Cup – The Complete Story 483:The Complete Record of The FA Cup 308:that Colchester (then managed by 732:Southern Football League players 727:English Football League players 506:Lloyd, Guy; Holt, Nick (2005). 288:In 1947, Turner was signed for 221:Following the cessation of the 717:Colchester United F.C. players 712:Charlton Athletic F.C. players 598:31 August 1950. Archived from 16:English footballer (1921–2019) 1: 658:"Southern League Cup Honours" 423:"U's mourn prolific striker" 748: 722:Oxford United F.C. players 697:People from Poplar, London 562:"The U's History: The 50s" 702:English men's footballers 640:"Southern League Honours" 170: 80: 68: 57: 42: 34: 449:"Arthur Turner obituary" 393:. 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Poplar, London
Centre forward
Charlton Athletic
Colchester United
Headington United
footballer
centre forward
Charlton Athletic
1946 FA Cup Final
FA Cup Final
League's
Colchester United
Second World War
1945–46
FA Cup
the main competition
Poplar
Charlton Athletic
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Preston North End
Brentford
Bolton Wanderers
semi-final
Burnden Park disaster
Derby County
Bert Turner
Colchester United
Ted Fenton
Southern League
the Football League

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