By the time he arrived, aged 31, at Southern League Southampton, Edgar Chadwick had nothing to prove.

Having been in at the 1888 inception of the Football League, with Everton, he had won a Championship medal and two FA Cup runners-up medals in his 300 appearances for them, before joining Burnley for their relegation season of 1899-1900. What’s more, he had won seven England caps in three different forward positions – from centre-forward to outside-left.

His two seasons at The Dell would be spent almost entirely at inside-left, but whatever his position, he was renowned for heading towards the by-line and cutting in parallel to it, drawing the goalkeeper to his near post, and then hooking the ball into the far corner of the net – a party-trick that had earned him the nickname of “Hooky”.

Joining the Saints entailed a renewal of the left-wing partnership Edgar had enjoyed with Alf Milward at Everton – and on three occasions for England. They played together in almost every game as the Saints again won the Southern League in 1901, the only blemish on their season being a First Round home defeat in the FA Cup by, of all teams, Everton. Alf departed at the end of that season, but with Albert Brown arriving to serve as a goal-machine at centre-forward, Edgar was able to add a third runners-up medal to his collection, when Southampton lost the 1902 FA Cup Final to Sheffield United.

His next five years were spent back in the Football League – with Liverpool, Blackpool, and Glossop, in turn – once he had paid Burnley, who still held his Football League registration, £35 for his release. After a further season in the Lancashire Combination with Darwen, he retired.

He then sandwiched a college coaching appointment between two spells in Holland, during each of which he was involved both at club level and as head coach to the national team. He twice took Holland to the Olympic Games. In 1908 in London, they lost 4-0 to Great Britain in their opening match, but they fared much better in Stockholm in 1912. After a Dutch swansong in Rotterdam, he came home and reverted to the initial family trade as a baker in Blackburn. In 1923, however, he was on a short-list of two for the managerial vacancy at Blackpool but lost out to Major Frank Buckley, previously of Footballers’ Battalion fame (see Edward Bell’s profile). Having failed to get the job, he continued to enjoy the game as a spectator and was a regular visitor to the away dressing room when the Saints were in the north-west, traveling from his Blackpool home.