Player Details

Chris Greene

Real Name: Christopher Greene
Normal Position: Wing Half
Born: 01/12/1911 (Dublin)
Died: 24/10/1975 (Coventry)

Heritage Number: 620
Debut Match*: 29/08/1933 v Accrington Stanley (1891) (Football League)
Last Match*: 03/11/1934 v Chesterfield (Football League)
* Qualifying Games

Chris Greene — they called him ‘Christy’ back in Ireland — was an electrical engineer by trade who encountered Jimmy Commins at Shelbourne, where he was one of six who either had played or would later play for Southport. He appeared in the private Haig Avenue trials at right-half in August 1933 and did so well that he made his début in the second game of the season and became a regular member of the team. He missed only one game the following campaign — a chill keeping him out of the side at Rotherham — before being transferred to Wolves for a useful fee. He only managed seven games at Molyneux (scoring two goals) and, after a further four games at Swansea, failed to make Bury’s League line-up at all. In 1938–39 it was reported that he was out of football through injury but had returned with Workington when war broke out. He spent a number of years as a prisoner-of-war in Egypt and after the cessation of hostilities a rift with his family took him to Coventry where he worked as an engineer with GEC. He lived in various men’s hostels in Coventry until his death in Walsgrave Hospital in his mid-sixties.

Profile reproduced with Permission from:
The Sandgrounders: The Complete League History of Southport F. C., by Michael Braham and Geoff Wilde (Palatine Books, 1995). ISBN 978-1-874181-14-9