fullname years death_date death_place clubs birth_place caps goals nationalteam height position nationalcaps nationalyears birth_date article_title name nationalgoals
william thomas jones -- 1903 -- 1919 -- 1921 1921 -- -- 13 july 1941 chirk , wales druids town chirk manchester city southend united aberdare athletic wrexham oswestry chirk , wales ?? ?? 281 ?? 18 7 ?? ?? 69 0 2 wales 5 ft 6 in m 2 on inside forward 20 1905 -- 1920 28 june 1882 lot jones
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william thomas jones -lrb- baptised 28 june 1882 , died 13 july 1941 -rrb- , also known as william `` lot '' jones and billy lot jones , was a welsh footballer who played as a forward .
jones was born in chirk , denbighshire , the son of elizabeth jones -lrb- 1864 -- -rrb- and grandson of lot jones -lrb- 1831 -- -rrb- , a coal miner and labourer .
he was treated as a son of his grandfather , lot .
his biological uncle was the footballer , di jones .
as a youth he worked as a pit miner and was one of several footballers to emerge from the area around the start of the 20th century , along with billy meredith and george wynn .
he signed for manchester city in january 1903 from rushton druids , but did not establish himself immediately .
he made only a single appearance in his first full season , scoring a goal in a 2 -- 1 defeat to west bromwich albion in april 1904 , and by the time he received his next opportunity he had been at the club for two years .
from january 1905 until the end of the 1905 -- 06 season jones played in around half of his club 's matches .
in the 1906 close season a financial scandal engulfed the club , resulting in the suspension of 17 senior players and several club officials , none of whom were permitted to play for the club once their suspensions ended .
jones was not implicated in the scandal , but with few experienced team-mates remaining , his team plunged from title contenders to relegation candidates .
the first match after the suspensions was particularly eventful .
manchester city fielded five debutants against woolwich arsenal , in a match played in stifling heat .
the conditions caused several city men to collapse , and by half time only eight remained .
arsenal eased to a 4 -- 1 win .
by the final whistle jones was one of only six manchester city players left .
the following match was a club record 9 -- 1 defeat at everton , though over the course of the season enough points were gained to secure first division survival .
by now jones was a first team regular .
in 1906 -- 07 he scored 11 goals in 27 league matches .
playing at inside-left , jones formed a lasting left sided partnership with jimmy conlin , backed up by jimmy blair at left-half .
during a successful 1907 -- 08 season in which manchester city equalled their previous best of third in the league , jones was given a benefit match .
middlesbrough provided the opposition , and jones received # 835 after expenses .
the following season manchester city were relegated to the second division , though with jones as captain they made an immediate return , winning the second division championship in 1910 .
this made jones the second city captain -lrb- after billy meredith -rrb- to win a trophy .
he continued to play for manchester city until competitive football ceased due to the first world war , at which point he volunteered for the 23rd -lrb- service -rrb- battalion , royal fusiliers , `` sportmen 's battalion '' when league football resumed in 1919 , jones was transferred to southend united .
in total he played for manchester city 301 times , and scored 76 goals between 1903 and 1914 .
he also won 20 caps and scored six goals for the wales national football team .
