Bedford Jezzard

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Bedford Jezzard
Personal information
Full name Bedford Alfred George Jezzard
Date of birth 19 October 1927
Place of birth    Clerkenwell, England
Date of death    May 21, 2005 (aged 77)
Playing position Forward
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1948–1957 Fulham 306 (154)   
National team
1954–1955 England 002 00(0)
Teams managed
1958–1964 Fulham

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Bedford Alfred George Jezzard, (born Clerkenwell, London October 19, 1927 – May 21, 2005), was a football player, spending all of his career as a striker at Fulham, during the 1940s and 1950s. He holds the club's post-war record for league goals scored in a season - 38 in 1953–54. He also won two England caps in 1954 and 1955. His Fulham career lasted only from 1948 to 1957, due to an irreversible injury. During his time at Fulham, he was picked for the London XI in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.

A one-club man, "Beddy" Jezzard later managed Fulham from 1958 until 1964, taking them back into the First Division. He became discontented with the changes in football culture in the mid-1960s - essentially the abolition of the maximum wage (through teamates Jimmy Hill and Johnny Haynes), which led to the concentration of power in the hands of the richer clubs - and retired to run a pub.

He died in May 2005 at the age of 77, and had been ill with Multi-infarct dementia for some time before his death.

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