Tom Forman | |
Fullname: | Thomas Forman |
Birth Date: | 26 October 1879 |
Birth Place: | Basford, Nottingham, England |
Position: | Outside left |
Years1: | 1900–1902 |
Years2: | 1903 |
Years3: | –1907 |
Years4: | 1907–1910 |
Years5: | 1910–1911 |
Clubs1: | Nottingham Forest |
Clubs2: | Manchester City |
Clubs3: | Sutton Town |
Clubs4: | Barnsley |
Clubs5: | Tottenham Hotspur |
Clubs6: | Sutton Junction |
Caps1: | 5 |
Goals1: | 0 |
Caps2: | 0 |
Goals2: | 0 |
Caps4: | 126 |
Goals4: | 16 |
Caps5: | 8 |
Goals5: | 1 |
Thomas Forman (26 October 1879 – after 1911) was a professional footballer who played for Nottingham Forest, Manchester City, Sutton Town, Barnsley, Tottenham Hotspur and Sutton Junction.[1]
Forman began his career at Nottingham Forest where he played in five matches between 1900 and 1902.[2]
In 1903 he joined Manchester City without playing a first team match.
After a spell with non-League club Sutton United the outside left signed for Barnsley.[3] Between 1907 and 1910, Forman appeared in 136 games and found the net on 18 occasions for the Yorkshire club; he appeared in both matches of the 1910 FA Cup Final in which he collected a losers' medal.
In 1910 he joined Tottenham Hotspur, featuring in a further eight matches and scoring a single goal before ending his career at Sutton Town.[4] [5] His solitary goal on his Lilywhites debut in a 6-2 victory over Middlesbrough at White Hart Lane in February 1911 in the old First Division.[6]
Forman served as a lance bombardier in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War.[7]