HENRY MARTIN – SUNDERLAND & ENGLAND 1912-1922 -  ORIGINAL FOOTBALL POSTCARD

Excellent original sepia football postcard, unknown publisher, depicting HENRY MARTIN in half length pose wearing civvies. Postally unused, very slight knock to the upper right hand corner, otherwise in very good clean condition.

Henry Martin (5 December 1891 – 1974) was an English professional footballer who played as an outside left for Sunderland, Nottingham Forest and Rochdale. At Sunderland he won the Football League title and reached the Cup Final in 1913. He made one appearance for England in 1914, and was later the manager at Mansfield Town. He joined Sunderland as a professional in January 1912 and made rapid progress with the club.

His debut came at Anfield on 5 April 1912 when he scored in a 2–1 defeat by Liverpool. The following day he was on the scoresheet again in a 4–0 victory over Everton. The other three goals were scored by George Holley.

He was ever-present in 1912–13 helping Sunderland to win the 1913 Football League Championship. He contributed three league goals in the championship winning season, including another against Liverpool in a 7–0 victory, in which Charlie Buchan scored five. Sunderland narrowly missed out on the Double, losing the FA Cup final 1–0 to Aston Villa, who themselves were runners-up in the League.

The following year he made his debut for England against Ireland on 14 February 1914, when he was joined by his Sunderland colleague Francis Cuggy. The match was played at Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough and England were defeated 3–0. This was the first time that England had been beaten by Ireland on home soil.

His football career was then interrupted by the First World War. During the war he guested for Nottingham Forest and he took part in two of the victory internationals played at the end of the war but he was unable to break back into the full England side.

After the war he played for another three seasons for Sunderland, rarely missing a match before moving to his native county to join Nottingham Forest on a permanent basis. In his Sunderland career he played a total of 230 first team matches with 22 goals.

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