Arthur Turner (Tottenham Hotspur football manager)

Last updated March 11, 2019

Arthur Turner (died 1949) was a lifelong employee of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club who served in a number of capacities from 1906 when he joined as Secretary of the Club.

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as Tottenham or Spurs, is a professional football club in Tottenham, London, England, that competes in the Premier League. Wembley Stadium will be the club's home ground for the 2018–19 season until the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium opens in 2019. Their former home of White Hart Lane had been demolished to make way for the new stadium on the same site. Their training ground is on Hotspur Way in Bulls Cross in the London Borough of Enfield. Tottenham have played in a first (home) strip of white shirts and navy blue shorts since the 1898–99 season. The club's emblem is a cockerel standing upon a football, with a Latin motto Audere est Facere.

Career

On the resignation of Fred Kirkham in 1908 the Directors of the club decided not to appoint new manager. However, Turner took responsibility in the main for running the side until December 1912 when Peter McWilliam was appointed manager.^[1]

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Turner remained at the Club and ensured its continuance during the First World War.

Once again, in August 1942 Turner took over as Manager and steered the Club through the remaining period of the Second World War and the most difficult time in its history. Although the Football League had been suspended during the war years a fixture list of cup competitions and ‘friendlies’ was fulfilled in the main due to Turner’s efforts to ensure a full team was always fielded. His record as a manager during this period reads:- Played 49, Won 27, Drew 11, Lost 11.^[2]

In 1946 he was succeeded as Manager by Joe Hulme. Arthur continued to serve the Club until his death in 1949, a period totalling some 43 years.

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[1] "Arthur Turner - biog on THFC site".

[2] "Arthur Turner - Stats on topSpurs site".