Whether he was training as a teacher (which included a placement as an assistant master in Wimbledon) or playing football as an amateur, Frank Monk seemed to be in perpetual transit between London and his home-town of Salisbury.

And when not thus engaged, he was winning honours at swimming, cricket and athletics, including the Salisbury marathon in 1909.

In the midst of all that, he did well to make 19 Southern League appearances for Southamptonin 1910-11, plus another in the FA Cup, mainly at centre-half but occasionally upfront.

He also won four amateur caps for England that season. After a brief diversion to Glossop, for a couple of games in the Football League’s Division II, he spent most of that season not getting a game for Fulham in that division – with a diversion to The Dell for a one-game finale. His career as an amateur in the professional game was now over, but he was called up, in the summer of 1912, to be a non-travelling reserve to the England squad that went to Stockholm for the Olympic Games, while he turned out for an England XI, the following season, in an exhibition match in Ghent.

Meanwhile, he had become a teacher at All Hallows’ Boys School in Tottenham and would confine his football to the occasional trip with the English Wanderers such as a tour to Hungary in January 1912. In the 1930s, he produced books on aircraft and flying, at a rate of roughly one a year. By 1939 he was teaching at Meadow Lordship Rd school in Chelmsford.