Bill SHORTHOUSE | 1953-1956 | PES Stats Database (Golden Era Backup)

SHORTHOUSE PES STATS | 1953-1956

electric_trigger Bill SHORTHOUSE | 1953-1956 Club: Wolves Era: 1953-1956, aged 31-34 Number: 3 Position: *SB, CB Nationality: English Foot: L Side: B Length: ? Weight: ? Attack: 63 Defence: 80 Balance: 83 Stamina: 90 Top Speed: 83 Acceleration: 84 Response: 83 Agility: 85 Dribble Accuracy: 75 Dribble Speed: 75 Short Pass Accuracy: 75 Short Pass Speed: 75 Long Pass Accuracy: 85 Long Pass Speed: 80 Shot Accuracy: 63 Shot Power: 82 Shot Technique: 63 Free Kick Accuracy: 66 Curling: 75 Header: 78 Jump: 85 Technique: 77 Aggression: 70 Mentality: 90 Keeper Skills: 50 Team Work: 86 Injury Tolerance: B Condition/Fitness: 8 Weak Foot Accuracy: 6 Weak Foot frequency: 6 *Sliding *Marking *Covering William (Bill) Shorthouse was born in Bilston on 27th May, 1922. joined Wolverhampton Wanderers in April 1946. Shorthouse joined a team that included Johnny Hancocks, Sammy Smythe, Jesse Pye, Jimmy Dunn, Jimmy Mullen, Billy Crook, Roy Pritchard, Billy Wright, Bert Williams, Bill Shorthouse and Terry Springthorpe. Initially a centre-half, he later moved to full-back. He is rememered along with Steve Bruce for being not capped for England when he had the talent to be. He was Billy Wright's vice-captain and man of few thrills. Wolves won the title in 1953-54 season. Shorthouse missed only two games that year. Bert Williams claimed that Shorthouse was ''straight-forward with no frills, but very hard and gave everything he'd got for the Wolves. He should have played for England.'' The football journalist, Ivan Ponting, wrote that ''Shorthouse... stood out as a hard man in a hard side, tackling like a runaway steamroller, positioning himself shrewdly, and passing simply and sensibly to team-mates blessed with skills more creative than his own... Above all, he was phenomenally dependable, which was reflected by his extraordinary record of never being dropped (his only absences came through injury or illness) from the moment he earned a regular place, during the 1947-48 season, until he bowed out, in his mid-thirties, in 1956-57.'' After playing in 376 cup and league games for the club Shorthouse retired from professional football in 1956 he became a coach, helping develop the young footballers of at Aston Villa as well as the England youth team. Shorthouse became a coach at Birmingham City after Stan Cullis was appointed manager of Birmingham City in December 1965. At the time the club was struggling in the Second Division. For a short period Shorthouse was a caretaker manager of the club after Cullis retired in March 1970. Bill SHORTHOUSE | 1953-1956 | PES Stats Database (Golden Era Backup)