fullname death_date death_place caps birth_place goals position birth_date article_title name
samuel chessell 14 march 1996 shirebrook , england 256 shirebrook , england 7 full-back 9 july 1921 sammy chessell
 sammy chessell
sammy chessell

samuel `` sammy '' chessell -lrb- 9 july 1921 -- 14 march 1996 -rrb- was an english footballer who played for mansfield town as a right-back .
a native of nearby shirebrook , he joined mansfield in 1942 as a forward , and played 62 wartime matches for the stags , scoring ten goals .
when the war came to an end , chessell , by now converted to a full-back , played his first `` official '' match for mansfield on 17 november 1945 against gainsborough trinity in the fa cup .
he scored his first peacetime goal for the club in a league match against leyton orient near the end of the 1946 -- 47 season .
chessell was ever-present in the 1950 -- 51 season , forming a fine full-back partnership with don bradley , when mansfield finished second in division three north and reached the fifth round of the fa cup .
he suffered a broken leg on christmas day 1951 against hartlepools united , but recovered in time for his testimonial against derby county in april 1952 .
chessell left mansfield in august 1954 , having played 281 peacetime games for the club , scoring seven goals .
he later settled in his home village of shirebrook where he worked at the local colliery .
he died in march 1996 , aged 74 .
