Stuart Shaw

Stuart Shaw
Personal information
Full name	Stuart Shaw^[1]
Date of birth	(1944-10-09) 9 October 1944^[1]
Place of birth	Liverpool, England^[1]
Playing position	Right-winger
Youth career
	Aintree Villa Colts
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1964–1966	Everton	3	(0)
1966–1967	Crystal Palace	0	(0)
1967–1969	Southport	67	(6)
1969–1970	Port Vale	3	(0)
	Morecambe
	Skelmersdale United
	South Liverpool
Total		73+	(6+)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Stuart Shaw (born 9 October 1944) is an English former footballer who played as a right-sided winger in the Football League for Everton, Crystal Palace, Southport, and Port Vale. 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.

Playing career

Shaw played for Aintree Villa Colts, before joining Harry Catterick's Everton. He played three First Division games for the "Toffees", as the Goodison Park outfit posted fourth and 11th-place finishes in the 1964–65 and 1965–66 campaigns. He dropped into the Second Division with Dick Graham's Crystal Palace, but did not make a league appearances at Selhurst Park in the 1966–67 season. He 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.

Sourced from Stuart Shaw profile at the English National Football Archive (subscription required)

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	0	0	0	0	0	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

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 263. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
↑ 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.

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