# John Coshall

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{{short description|English footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = John Coshall
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| fullname = John William Macdonald Coshall
| birth_date = {{birth date|1901|1|21|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |title=John Coshall |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/person/pe849121/john-coshall/ |website=worldfootball.net |publisher=HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG |access-date=30 May 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
| birth_place = [Erith](/source/Erith), England
| death_date  = {{death year and age|1975|1901}}
| death_place = 
| position = [Left-back](/source/Left-back)
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| clubs1         = [Erith & Belvedere](/source/Erith_%26_Belvedere_F.C.)
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| years2         = 1928–1929
| clubs2         = [West Ham United](/source/West_Ham_United_F.C.)
| caps2          = 2
| goals2         = 0
| years3         = 
| clubs3         = [Cannes](/source/AS_Cannes)
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'''John William Macdonald Coshall''' (21 January 1901 – 1975) was an English [footballer](/source/Association_football) who played as a [left-back](/source/left-back) in the [Football League](/source/Football_League) for [West Ham United](/source/West_Ham_United_F.C.). He later played for French club [AS Cannes](/source/AS_Cannes).<ref name=Joyce2012>{{cite book| first=Michael| last=Joyce| title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939| year=2012| orig-year=2002| publisher=SoccerData| location=Nottingham| isbn=978-1-905891-61-0| page=66}}</ref>

Coshall joined West Ham United for the [1928–29](/source/1928%E2%80%9329_in_English_football) season, along with [Erith](/source/Erith_%26_Belvedere_F.C.) teammate Arthur Smith, after impressing during preseason games.<ref name=Hogg2005>{{cite book |last=Hogg |first=Tony |title=Who's Who of West Ham United |year=2005 |publisher=Profile Sports Media| isbn=1-903135-50-8 |pages=53}}</ref> He made two [First Division](/source/Football_League_First_Division) appearances for the east London club.<ref name=whs>{{cite web|url=http://www.westhamstats.info/westham.php?west=2&ham=150&united=John_Coshall| title=John Coshall| website=westhamstats.info|access-date=24 April 2018}}</ref> He went on to join [AS Cannes](/source/AS_Cannes), part of a contingent of British players in the [South of France](/source/South_of_France) around that time; contemporaries at the club with League experience were [Ted Donaghy](/source/Ted_Donaghy), [Stan Hillier](/source/Stan_Hillier) and [Willie Aitken](/source/William_Aitken_(footballer)).<ref>{{cite journal |last=Taylor |first=Matthew |year=2010 |title=Football's Engineers? British Football Coaches, Migration and Intercultural Transfer, c.1910–c.1950s |journal=Sport in History |volume=32 |issue=5 |pages=138–163 |doi=10.1080/17460261003617011 |s2cid=143758531 | quote=Cornelius's connections were doubtless significant in the move of two other former Erith and Belvedere players, Stan Hillier and John Coshall, to AS Cannes at around the same time}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Soccer History| issue=18|title=The French Menace; The Migration of British Players to France in the 1930s |pages=19–20}}</ref>

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Category:People from Erith
Category:English men's footballers
Category:Men's association football full-backs
Category:Erith & Belvedere F.C. players
Category:West Ham United F.C. players
Category:English Football League players
Category:AS Cannes players
Category:English expatriate men's footballers
Category:English expatriate sportspeople in France
Category:Expatriate men's footballers in France
Category:20th-century English sportsmen

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