Personal information | |||
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Full name | John Plant[1] | ||
Date of birth | 23 March 1871 | ||
Place of birth | Bollington, England | ||
Date of death | early 1950 (aged 78) | ||
Place of death | Crewe, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Outside left | ||
Youth career | |||
Denton | |||
Bollington | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1890–1898 | Bury | ||
1898–1899 | Reading | ||
1899–1907 | Bury | ||
International career | |||
1900 | England | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
John Plant (23 March 1871 – early 1950) was an English international footballer, who played as an outside left.
Plant was born in Bollington, Cheshire on 23 March 1871.[1] He was the eldest of four children.[1] He worked as a labourer in an iron foundry.[1] He married and had two daughters.[1]
Plant spent his early career playing with local clubs Denton and Bollington.[1] He signed for Bury in 1890, and won the Football League Division Two title with Bury in 1894–95.[1] He spent the 1898–99 season with Reading, before returning to Bury, where he finished his career in 1907.[1] He was a member of Bury's FA Cup-winning teams in 1900 and 1903, scoring a goal in both finals.[1][2]
By 1911 he was working as a labourer in a cotton mill.[1] By 1939 he was a retired widower.[1] He died in early 1950, aged 78.[1]