Arthur Turner

Date Hired : November 1954 Resigned : September 1958 First Game : xx-xx-xxxx (H - xxxx) Last Game : xx-xx-xxxx (H - xxxx) Success Rate : xx.xx%

Comments Arthur Turner spent 13 years with the Blues, nine as a player and four as a manager. Born at Woolstaston, near Shrewsbury, on All Fools Day 1909, he had a trial with West Brom before signing professional forms for Stoke City in November 1930. A reliable, well built center-half, Turner made more than 300 first-team appearances for the Potters, playing in the same team as Stanley Matthews., Freddie Steele and Joe Johnson and won a Second Division championship medal in 1933 and was later named reserve for England. He joined Birmingham just before the war and made over 160 wartime appearances, skippering the side which won the League South and reached the FA Cup Semi-Final. Turner signed for Southport and took up his first managerial appointment with Crewe Alexandra in 1949. After a spell as assistant manager at Stoke, he returned to St.Andrews as manager and within six months saw Birmingham clinch the Second Division title with a last-gasp win at Doncaster. The following season, he took the side he had inherited to a Wembley Cup Final. During his four years at St.Andrews, Turner did well in the transfer market. Among his signings were Dick Neal, Harry Hooper, Mike Hellawell, Bryan Orritt and Brian Taylor, plus youngsters like Malcolm Beard, Winston Foster, Terry Hennessey and Colin Withers. He enjoyed considerable success with Oxford United, whom he steered into the Football League in 1962 and into Division Two before handing over to Ron Saunders in 1969. Turner continued in football for a few years, acting as chief scout for Rotherham United and Sheffield Wednesday until soon before his death in the 1980s. Managerial Career Competition Played Won Lost Drawn For Against Perf % League 79 33 14 32 144 136 50.6% FA Cup xx 33 xx xx xx xx xx.x% League Cup xx xx xx xx xx xx xx.x% Other xx xx xx xx xx xx xx.x%