Henry Martin

Martin was born at Selston , Nottinghamshire and played his youth football with Sutton Junction F.C., based in Sutton-in-Ashfield . [ 2 ] He joined Sunderland as a professional in January 1912 and made rapid progress with the club. His debut came at Anfield on 5 April 1912 when he scored in a 2–1 defeat by Liverpool . [ 3 ] The following day he was on the scoresheet again in a 4–0 victory over Everton . The other three goals were scored by George Holley . [ 4 ] He was ever-present in 1912–13 helping Sunderland to win the 1913 Football League Championship. He contributed three league goals in the championship winning season, including another against Liverpool in a 7–0 victory, in which Charlie Buchan scored five. [ 5 ] Sunderland narrowly missed out on the Double , losing the FA Cup final 1–0 to Aston Villa , who themselves were runners-up in the League. The following year he made his debut for England against Ireland on 14 February 1914, when he was joined by his Sunderland colleague Francis Cuggy . The match was played at Ayresome Park , Middlesbrough and England were defeated 3–0. [ 6 ] This was the first time that England had been beaten by Ireland on home soil. [ 7 ] His football career was then interrupted by the First World War . During the war he guested for Nottingham Forest and he took part in two of the victory internationals played at the end of the war [ 8 ] but he was unable to break back into the full England side. After the war he played for another three seasons for Sunderland, rarely missing a match before moving to his native county to join Nottingham Forest on a permanent basis. In his Sunderland career he played a total of 230 first team matches with 22 goals. — Wikipedia