Joe Birch
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use British English Template:Infobox football biography Joseph Birch (6 July 1904 – 4 December 1980) was an English professional footballer who made more than 200 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic and Fulham.[1] He played as a full back.
Birch was born in Hednesford, Staffordshire. He played non-league football for Cannock Town and Hednesford Town before joining Birmingham in 1928.[2] Birch played his only game for Birmingham in the First Division on Boxing Day 1928 in a 6–2 defeat at Bolton Wanderers, just before the club paid £4,000 for the services of Huddersfield Town full back Ned Barkas.[3] He played for Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic in the Third Division South before moving on to Fulham. In his first season Birch contributed to their winning the Third Division South title and consequent promotion,[2] and in seven seasons with the club he played 185 league games.[1] They awarded him a benefit match against fellow west London club Queens Park Rangers in 1937.[4] He finished off his career with Colchester United, with whom he won the championship of the Southern League in the 1938–39 season.[2]
Birch died in Colchester, Essex, in 1980 at the age of 76.[2]
Honours
Fulham
- Third Division South champions: 1931–32
Colchester United
- Southern League champions: 1938–39
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- 1904 births
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- Footballers from Hednesford
- English men's footballers
- Men's association football fullbacks
- Hednesford Town F.C. players
- Birmingham City F.C. players
- AFC Bournemouth players
- Fulham F.C. players
- Colchester United F.C. players
- English Football League players
- Southern Football League players
- Cannock Town F.C. players
- 20th-century English sportsmen