Albert Nightingale

Albert Nightingale (10 November 1923 – 26 February 2006) was a professional footballer who played as an inside forward. He played in the Football League for Sheffield United, Huddersfield Town, Blackburn Rovers and Leeds United, making 346 league appearances in total. He won promotion to the First Division with Leeds United in the 1955–56 season, but retired from injury after playing once during the following season through injury.

Life and career Early life Nightingale was born in Thrybergh, South Yorkshire, England on 10 November 1923, He is the uncle of fellow footballer Lol Morgan, who he played alongside at Huddersfield Town. He played wartime football with Sheffield United, Rotherham United, Following the end of wartime football, he made 62 league appearances for Sheffield United, in which he scored 15 goals. with Nightingale having been transfer listed by Sheffield United at his request. He was a popular player amongst the fans during his three-and-a-half years with Huddersfield, across which he made 119 appearances and scored 20 goals for the club. He continued to live in Huddersfield following his transfer to Blackburn, and handed in a transfer request in September 1953 season, having struggled to settle in at the club.

Leeds United Nightingale signed for Leeds United in October 1952, for a fee of £10,000. The fee made him the club's most expensive transfer at the time of his signing. He made his debut for the club on 11 October, scoring Leeds' goal in a 2–1 away defeat to Sheffield United on 11 October, and went on to score 8 goals in 27 matches across the 1952–53 season.

He played Leeds' opening match of the 1956–57 season, but suffered a knee injury which he was hospitalised for, and did not play again.

After football After the end of his playing career, he worked as a storeman in an electrical company and then he became a green-keeper at Woodsome Hall Golf Club until retirement. with Richard Ulyatt of the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer writing in 1952 that "if penalties had been given every time he had been tackled just outside the penalty area and had fallen just inside it, opponents would be inclined to let him alone". Nightingale told the Yorkshire Evening Post in 1994 that he was "always known for diving" and that "I got a few penalties in my time, and to be right some of them should not have been".