Stuart Shaw (footballer)

Stuart Shaw
Personal information
Full name	Stuart Shaw
Date of birth	9 October 1944 (age 80)
Place of birth	Liverpool, England
Position(s)	Right winger
Youth career
	Aintree Villa Colts
Senior career*
Years	Team
1964–1966	Everton
1966–1967	Crystal Palace
1967–1969	Southport
1969–1970	Port Vale
	Morecambe
	Skelmersdale United
	South Liverpool
Total
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Stuart Shaw (born 9 October 1944) is an English former footballer who played as a right-sided winger in the Football League for Everton, Southport, and Port Vale. He also made one senior appearance for Crystal Palace in the FA Cup. He later played Northern Premier League football with Morecambe, Skelmersdale United and South Liverpool. He won promotion out of the Fourth Division with Port Vale in 1969–70.

Career

Shaw played for Aintree Villa Colts before joining Harry Catterick's Everton. He played three First Division games for the "Toffees" in the 1964–65 and 1965–66 seasons. The Goodison Park club finished fourth and eleventh. Stuart dropped into the Second Division with Dick Graham's Crystal Palace in December 1966, but did not make a league appearance at Selhurst Park in the 1966–67 season and departed in March 1967.^[2] He made one appearance as a substitute in the FA Cup third round as Palace lost 0–3 away to Leeds United.^[3]

Shaw spent the 1967–68 and 1968–69 seasons with Southport, and scored six goals in 67 Third Division appearances under the stewardship of Billy Bingham and Don McEvoy. He left Haig Avenue and joined Gordon Lee's Port Vale in July 1969.^[1] He made his debut at Vale Park in a goalless draw with Peterborough United on 9 August, but was sidelined after breaking his rib in the match.^[1] He recovered to play four further games that season, as the "Valiants" won promotion out of the Fourth Division.^[1] He was given a free transfer to Northern Premier League side Morecambe in May 1970.^[1] He later played for Skelmersdale United and South Liverpool in the Northern Premier League, and then non-League sides Howard Sports and Fleetwood Hesketh.

Sources:^[3]^[4]

Club	Season	Division	League		FA Cup		Other		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Everton	1964–65	First Division	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	1965–66	First Division	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
	Total		3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
Crystal Palace	1966–67	Second Division	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Southport	1966–67	Fourth Division	13	1	0	0	0	0	13	1
	1967–68	Third Division	25	1	3	0	1	0	29	1
	1968–69	Third Division	29	4	0	0	3	0	32	4
	Total		67	6	3	0	4	0	74	6
Port Vale	1969–70	Fourth Division	3	0	2	0	0	0	5	0
Career total			73	6	6	0	4	0	83	6

Port Vale

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 263. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0. ASIN 0952915200.
^ "Stuart Shaw". Holmesdale Online. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b Purkiss, Mike; Sands, Nigel (1990). Crystal Palace: A Complete Record 1905–1989. The Breedon Books Publishing Company. pp. 226–7. ISBN 0907969542.
^ Stuart Shaw at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)
^ Kent, Jeff (1990). "Surviving on a Shoestring (1969–1979)". The Valiants' Years: The Story Of Port Vale. Witan Books. pp. 227–257. ISBN 0-9508981-4-7.