I agree with everything that Mark Byford says in his comprehensive article about Terry Paine, although I would add that when he scored a hat-trick for England against Northern Ireland in 1963 he became the first outside right to hit a hat-trick for England for 26 years and in that same year he scored England's opening goal in a 2-1 victory against the Rest of The World. 

Terry Paine deserves the honour of having a pavilion named after him but I thought it worth mentioning that Ted Drake is another footballing legend who started his career at Winchester City.

Ted was born in Southampton, but played for Winchester while working as a gas meter reader before joining Southampton in 1931, making his debut in November of that year and went on to score 48 goals in 74 games for the club (netting 20 or more in both 1932/33 and 1933/34) before signing for Arsenal in March 1934 for a fee of £6,500 which was a lot of money in those days.

In Ted's first full season with the Gunners he scored 42 goals in 41 league games which remains to this day the best haul in a single season by an Arsenal player and his goals helped Arsenal win the football league championship that season.

Ted had scored four goals on four separate occasions in the record breaking 1934/35 season, but he surpassed those achievements in December 1935 when he scored all seven goals in Arsenal's 7-1 win against Aston Villa which remains to this day the highest number of goals scored by one player in a game in soccer’s top flight and is a record unlikely to ever be broken. In this historic game against Aston Villa Ted had another effort which hit the cross bar with him thinking the ball had crossed the line, although the referee disagreed. Later in the 1935/36 season Ted would go on to score the only goal in the FA Cup final against Sheffield United.

Ted was Arsenal's top scorer from 1934/35 to 1938/39 inclusive although the Second World War somewhat curtailed his playing career. Nevertheless he also scored six goals in five full international appearances for England and helped Arsenal win the football league championship again in 1937/38. Ted's record of 139 goals in 184 games for the Gunners puts him joint fifth in the Arsenal all time list, but Thierry Henry, Ian Wright, Cliff Bastin and John Radford the four players above him all had a lower average of goals per game than Ted.

When his playing career ended Ted began his managerial career with the likes of Hendon and Reading before becoming manager of Chelsea in the summer of 1952. Ted begun to recruit players from the lower leagues and the amateur game and in his third season Chelsea were Division 1 champions for the first time in their history and Ted himself again made history by becoming the first person to win soccer's top flight as both a player and a manager.

After this success it was a further 50 years before Chelsea won the league championship again. 
Ted was also a keen cricketer and played 16 matches for Hampshire, in the first of which he scored 45 runs and shared a stand of 95 with Phil Mead.
 
Malcolm Clarke,
Leigh Road,
Eastleigh

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