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Sir Frederick Joseph Wall (14 April 1858 – 25 March 1944) was an English football administrator.

Career

Wall became Secretary of the Football Association, a position he held from 1895 to 1934. He was knighted in the 1930 New Year's Honours List.

Notably, Wall refused on behalf of the FA to offer wartime financial compensation to famed Anglo-Irish coach Jimmy Hogan, on the basis of the latter's perceived co-operation with the Central Powers during the First World War (Hogan had coached Hungarian side MTK Budapest whilst interned as an enemy alien during the conflict).

After retiring as FA Secretary, he was a director of Arsenal from 1934 to 1938. Wall credited the Royal Engineers with being the first side to play the modern passing football style known as the Combination Game. He credited the Corinthians with bringing about the later developments in the passing game.

References

1. "No. 33587". The London Gazette. 11 March 1930. p. 1574.
2. "How total football inventor was lost to Hungary". The Guardian. 22 November 2003. Retrieved 5 May 2008.
3. "Arsenal non-players". Archived from the original on 14 December 2002.
4. Wall, Sir Frederick (2005). 50 Years of Football, 1884-1934. Soccer Books Limited. ISBN 1-86223-116-8.
5. Cox, Richard (2002) The encyclopaedia of British Football, Routledge, United Kingdom
6. 50 Years of football 1884–1934, originally published 1935; reprint 2006 by Soccer books limited, page 10

External links

• Works by or about Frederick Wall at Wikisource

• 1858 births
• People from Battersea
• 1944 deaths
• Arsenal F.C. directors and chairmen
• Association football executives
• Knights Bachelor
• Association football people awarded knighthoods
• English knights