Segar Bastard

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Segar Bastard
Personal information
Full name Segar Richard Bastard
Date of birth January 25, 1854
Place of birth    Bow, London, England
Date of death    March 20, 1921 (age 67)
Place of death    England
Playing position Outside right/Forward
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1873-87 Upton Park
Trojans
Leyton		    
National team
1880 England 1 (0)

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

Segar Richard Bastard[1] (January 25, 1854 – March 20, 1921) was an English amateur football player and referee.

Born in Bow, London, Bastard played for the now-defunct Upton Park football club, between 1873 and 1887; he also played for Trojans and Leyton[2] and occasionally guested for the Corinthians. Like many of his contemporaries, he was both a player and a referee at the same time, unlike the modern day, where referees are neutrals with no playing connections.[3] He refereed the 1878 FA Cup final between Wanderers and Royal Engineers at the Kennington Oval,[3] before refereeing the first ever England v. Wales match, at the Oval on January 18, 1879.[4]

Bastard's debut as an international player came after his debut as a referee; he played for England as an outside right against Scotland on March 13, 1880; Scotland won 5-4 in a match that saw England mount a late rally to come back from 5-2 down.[4] That was Bastard's only match for England.[5]

A solicitor by profession,[2] he was noted for his gambling; he was also a keen fan of horseracing and is one of the first footballers known to have owned a racehorse.[3] He died aged 67, in 1921.[5]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Some historical texts refer to him as Segal Bastard but census records indicate his first name was spelt with an "r". Reference: 1881 census search. Retrieved on January 16, 2006.
  2. ^ a b Peter Hamersley. Upton Park Football Club - Players: 1866 to 1887. East of London Family History Society.
  3. ^ a b c Paul Simpson; Ray Spiller (1997). Four Four Two: Football Intelligence. London: Pan Books, pp. 50-51. ISBN 0-330-34976-7. 
  4. ^ a b Alan Brown. England: 1872-1880 matches. RSSSF. Retrieved on January 16, 2006.
  5. ^ a b England's Players - Bach to Byrne. England Football Online. Retrieved on January 16, 2006.
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