1950–1958 Sheffield Wednesday Position Inside forward Years Team Height 1.73 m | 1948–1950 Sheffield Wednesday Role Football player Playing position Name Albert Quixall | |
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Date of birth (1933-08-09) 9 August 1933 (age 82) | ||
Place of birth Sheffield, England | ||
Albert Quixall (born 9 August 1933 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England), was an English footballer who played as an inside-forward.
Quixall started his career with Sheffield Wednesday, signing as an amateur in 1948 and turning professional in 1950. He made his debut in February 1951 as a 17-year-old centre forward and went on to play almost 250 League games, scoring 66 League and Cup goals with the Owls. He was in his prime with Sheffield Wednesday, and gained much media attention, becoming the Golden Boy of British football.
Quixall joined Manchester United in September 1958 for a then British record fee of £45,000, one of Matt Busby's key recruits in building a new team in the aftermath of the Munich air disaster, which had killed eight players and ended the careers of two others on 6 February that year. After seven games without a win for United, Quixall eventually helped the team go on a run of only two losses in 23 matches to end the season as runners-up in the First Division. Quixall's only medal with the club was the 1963 FA Cup. Altogether, he scored 56 goals in 184 games for the Reds.
Along with Johnny Giles and David Herd, he was dropped after Everton thrashed United 4–0 in the 1963 FA Charity Shield. However, he rarely featured in the 1963-64 season, last appearing for United on Boxing Day 1963.
He left the club at the end of the season, moving to Oldham Athletic for £7,000, spending two years at Boundary Park before finishing his professional career at Stockport County in 1967.
Quixall was capped five times for England between 1954 and 1955. He also made Schoolboy, Under-23 and 'B' appearances for his country, and played for a Football League representative side on four occasions.