Source: TheGuardian
Jackie Sewell obituary
Footballer who commanded a world-record transfer fee in the 1950sFor four years in the 1950s, Jackie Sewell, who has died aged 89, was the most expensive footballer in Britain, having moved from his first league club, Notts County, to Sheffield Wednesday for a record £34,500 midway through the 1950-51 season.A quick, clever and incisive inside-forward, Sewell scored half a dozen First Division goals in 10 games, which almost saved Wednesday from relegation; they eventually went down by the narrowest of margins, on goal average. The following season he scored 22 goals in 35 Second Division matches to bring them back up to the top flight, and his feats with Wednesday earned him his first England call-up, against Ireland in November 1951. The next summer he scored England’s first goal in a famous 3-2 friendly victory over Austria. Yet he would win only six international caps in all, and his misfortune was that two of them came against the brilliant Hungarians, who thrashed England 6-3 at Wembley in November 1953 and 7-1 in Budapest the following May. He was the last surviving member of the England team from the 1953 Hungary game. Continue reading......read full article
