Personal information | |||
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Full name | Stanley Charles Machent [1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 23 March 1921||
Place of birth | Chesterfield, England | ||
Date of death | 17 December 2012[2] | (aged 91)||
Place of death | Brimington, England | ||
Position(s) | Inside Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
–1938 | Chesterfield Ramblers | ||
1938–1947 | Sheffield United | 22 | (2) |
1939 | → Buxton (loan) | ||
1947–1949 | Chesterfield | 21 | (7) |
1949–1951 | Buxton | ||
1951 | Hereford United | ||
1951–1954 | Buxton | ||
Total | 43 | (9) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Stanley Charles Machent (23 March 1921 – 17 December 2012) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Sheffield United and Chesterfield and in non-League football for Buxton and Hereford United. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Machent left school at the age of fourteen, and was an apprentice builder before he started his career with local side Chesterfield Ramblers. [4] His form for the club alerted Chesterfield and Sheffield United, with Chesterfield offering him professional terms in 1938. [4] However, Sheffield United later offered him a better offer and he signed for the Blades. [4] In October 1939 he was loaned to Buxton, making his debut against Ashton National in a 4–3 win. [7] His early career at the club was cut short due to World War II and he played as a guest player for Chesterfield during the war. [4] He remained with United for nine years, making 22 appearances and scoring twice. [6] In November 1947 he joined Football League Second Division side Chesterfield for £6,000 plus Dick Culshaw. [4] Injury restricted him to just 17 games in his first season for the club, as he twice suffered a broken arm. [4] In the fourth game of the 1948–49 season he suffered a knee injury which kept him out for the rest of the campaign. [4] He was transfer-listed in 1949 and later dropped into non-league football re-joining Cheshire League side Buxton. [4] Whilst at Buxton he was part of the side that reached the third round of the FA Cup in 1951–52, beating Aldershot in the process. [4] In his second season for Buxton he scored an impressive 26 goals in 19 league games. [3] In July 1951 he signed for ambitious Southern League club Hereford United. [3] He struggled to compete for a place in the first team, only making two appearances and he mainly featured for the reserves. [3] He spent three months with the Bulls but left in October 1951 due to travel commitments. [3] He later returned to Buxton where he spent another three seasons. [3] From 1954 he served as player-coach to Chesterfield's 'A' side that competed in the Yorkshire League, before the team disbanded at the end of the 1954–55 campaign. [4]
His older brother, Arthur Machent, also played for Chesterfield in the 1930s. [4] During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force as a radio and radar operator with RAF Coastal Command, later becoming a warrant officer with No. 120 Squadron RAF, serving in Canada, Northern Ireland and The Bahamas. [2] After retiring from football he ran a shop in Chesterfield with his wife Vera, and later worked for the National Coal Board, and also as a maintenance joiner for the Derbyshire Health Authority. [2] He died on 17 December 2012 in Brimington, Derbyshire at the age of 91. [2]