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English footballer

Tommy Hassell
Personal information
Full name Thomas William Hassell
Date of birth (1919-04-05)5 April 1919
Place of birth Eastleigh, England
Date of death April 1984 (aged 64–65)
Place of death Hove, England
Position(s) Inside left
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
19??–1946 Southampton 0 (0)
1946–1950 Aldershot 114 (16)
1950–1951 Brighton & Hove Albion 11 (4)
1951–1954 Folkestone Town
1954–1958 Lewes
1958–19?? Bexhill Town
Newhaven
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Thomas William Hassell (5 April 1919 – April 1984) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside left in the Football League for Aldershot and Brighton & Hove Albion.

Life and career

Hassell was born in Eastleigh, Hampshire, in 1919. He joined Southampton as a youngster, and played for them in the wartime competitions, as well as making guest appearances for a variety of other clubs, but moved on to Aldershot before the Football League resumed in 1946. In a four-year spell, Hassell made 114 appearances in the Football League Third Division South for Aldershot. He spent the 1950–51 season as a part-time professional with another Third Division club, Brighton & Hove Albion, for which he had played during the war, and then spent another three years with Folkestone Town. In 1954, he resumed amateur status and acted as player-coach of Sussex County League club Lewes for four seasons, and then played for Bexhill Town and Newhaven.

He returned to Albion as assistant trainer from 1964 to 1967. Outside football, Hassell worked in the Brighton railway workshops as a fitter. He died in Hove, Sussex, in 1984.

References

  1. ^ "Tommy Hassell". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  2. ^ Carder, Tim; Harris, Roger (1997). Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Hove: Goldstone Books. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-9521337-1-1.
  3. "Lewes choose an ex-pro to be their player-coach". Sussex Express. 23 July 1954. p. 7.
    "Will player-coaches be key to success in coming season". Sussex Express. 22 August 1958. p. 12.


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