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David JACK 1923-1928Name: David Bone Nightingale JackNickname: "-" Country: :  England Club: Bolton Wanderers Position: ★ SS, CF | WF (Optional) Side: RF/BS Age: 24-29 years (04/04/1899) Height: 179 cm Weight: 77 kg Attack: 90Defence: 37Balance: 80Stamina: 81Top Speed: 84Acceleration: 80Response: 83Agility: 87Dribble Accuracy: 90Dribble Speed: 84Short Pass Accuracy: 80Short Pass Speed: 74Long Pass Accuracy: 75Long Pass Speed: 72Shot Accuracy: 86Shot Power: 83Shot Technique: 88Free Kick Accuracy: 65Curling: 70Header: 82Jump: 84Technique: 87Aggression: 88Mentality: 75Goalkeeper Skills: 50Team Work: 82Injury Tolerance: BCondition: 7Weak Foot Accuracy: 5Weak Foot Frequency: 5Consistency: 7Growth type: Standard/Lasting CARDS:P05 – Mazing Run P14 – Dummy Runner P15 – Free Roaming S01 – Marauding S05 – 1-touch Play SPECIAL ABILITIES: Scoring - 1-Touch Pass - Dribbling Attack/Defence Awareness Card: Attack Minded ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ David JACK 1929-1932Name: David Bone Nightingale JackNickname: "-" Country: :  England Club: Arsenal Position: ★ SS, CF | WF (Optional) Side: RF/BS Age: 30-33 years (04/04/1899) Height: 179 cm Weight: 74 kg Attack: 91Defence: 41Balance: 81Stamina: 79Top Speed: 83Acceleration: 81Response: 85Agility: 86Dribble Accuracy: 88Dribble Speed: 82Short Pass Accuracy: 78Short Pass Speed: 74Long Pass Accuracy: 77Long Pass Speed: 73Shot Accuracy: 89Shot Power: 83Shot Technique: 88Free Kick Accuracy: 68Curling: 72Header: 83Jump: 85Technique: 87Aggression: 90Mentality: 73Goalkeeper Skills: 50Team Work: 80Injury Tolerance: BCondition: 7Weak Foot Accuracy: 5Weak Foot Frequency: 5Consistency: 7Growth type: Standard/Lasting CARDS:P05 – Mazing Run P14 – Dummy Runner P15 – Free Roaming S01 – Marauding S05 – 1-touch Play SPECIAL ABILITIES: Reaction – Scoring - Positioning - 1-Touch Pass - Dribbling Attack/Defence Awareness Card: Attack Minded David Jack was one of England’s most celebrated inside‑forwards of the interwar period, renowned for his consistency and goal-scoring pedigree. He began his career at Plymouth Argyle before making his name at Bolton Wanderers, where he scored 144 league goals in 295 appearances and helped secure two FA Cups in 1923 and 1926. Notably, he became the first player ever to score at Wembley in the famous “White Horse Final” of 1923. In 1928 he made a then-world‑record move to Arsenal for over £10,000, where he played a central role in Herbert Chapman’s revolutionary W‑M system. Jack scored 124 goals in 208 matches for the Gunners, finishing as their top scorer in 1928–29 and helping them win three league titles and the 1930 FA Cup. Those achievements with Arsenal made him the first player to win FA Cup as well as reach more than 100 league goals with two different top-tier clubs in England – and was capped nine times for England. Jack’s playstyle epitomised the classic inside‑forward: a technically accomplished, intelligent attacker who thrived in linking midfield and attack. Renowned for his dribbling, deft body swerves, and ability to unbalance defenders, Jack combined creativity with a clinical edge. His timing, positional awareness, and ability to exploit space made him more than just a prolific goalscorer — he was a vital creative presence whose guile and close control enabled him to unlock stubborn defences and adapt seamlessly to the evolving tactical demands of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Quote: Jimmy Greaves: ‘Old-timers tell me that Jack was one of the most gifted and technically perfect players of all time, who deserved many more international caps. He was a tall, slim inside-right who always put skill before strength, and was his own man both on and off the pitch. Veteran Arsenal fans still go into raptures over a goal he scored against Aston Villa in 1931, when he beat five men including the goalkeeper before slotting the ball home. Observers swear he touched the ball only three times as he swerved and feinted past a line of deceived defenders. He was famous for his cool, clinical manner, but I discover he shared a bad habit with me—he liked to puff a cigarette before and after a match.’ 'Forward, Arsenal!' wrote: Buchan's departure left a void in the strategic as well as playing sense and Herbert Chapman knew that he had no alternative but to find one as near his counterpart as possible....Finally, only one man measured up to the requirements: twenty-nine-year-old David Jack, the elegant English inside-right of Bolton Wanderers. Tall and graceful, he dribble as though the ball was magnetised to the flow of his body. He used to swerve by a sway of the shoulders towards an opponent and then go straight on, high-stepping disdainfully over his bewildered and stumbling foe.... By 1928 he was accepted as one of the greatest inside-forwards of all time and an automatic choice for England. Quote: His primary skill was to run directly at an opponent and swerve so far so quickly that he appeared to give himself enormous space. In one match for Arsenal against Aston Villa it was reported that in spite of touching the ball not more than three times, he beat four players, then the goalkeeper, before scoring. His stamina was never questioned although his dislike of hard training was well known. He served Chapman well in the tactics the great man evolved. Quote: He was one of Arsenal’s greatest By JOHN MACADAM
The ball came through the middle of the Highbury field. A tall, dark-haired, lissom inside forward fastened on behind it.
With fantastic body swerves and a couple of taps with his foot to keep the ball going, he beat an entire defence and scored a goal that will be talked about as long as Cup ties are talked about.
The player was David Jack, his team was Arsenal, and the opponents were Aston Villa. The year was 1931.
David Jack, “the suavest ball-player I ever saw,” died in St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, yesterday, at the age of 60.
Dr. B. N. Jack—few of us in those days ever got around to knowing that the initials signalled David Bone Nightingale—was one of the ornaments of a Golden Age of Soccer.
The line-up Certainly Arsenal’s forward line of those days was the greatest that has ever been assembled for a single League club. It was: Joe Hulme, David Jack, Jack Lambert, Alex James, Cliff Bastin.
One has only to think of them and their contemporaries to realise that we shall be lucky to see their like again… Such as Billy Walker (Villa), Joe Smith (Bolton), Charles Buchan (Sunderland), Clem Stephenson (Huddersfield), and Jimmy Seed (Spurs). England selectors had no inside-forward problems in those days.
Joe Hulme and Cliff Bastin survive from that fabulous Arsenal forward line — and great wingers they were, in an age of great footballers. But no League club ever had a pair of inside forwards like David Jack and Alex James. James had his sudden darts through and, then, long ball hit without warning to either wing.
The body-swerve Jack, with his perfect poise and body swerve, looked like two players with a ball at each of four feet, and was the perfect complement to the mercurial James.
What Arsenal would be prepared to pay today to revert to the line-up of Hulme, Jack, Lambert, James, and Bastin is highly contestable—what is, beyond the millions, is they got David Jack from Bolton Wanderers for £10,000.
He scored the first goal of the first Wembley Cup Final when Bolton beat West Ham.
David won three Cup Final medals and one as runner-up. He was capped nine times for England, and managed Southend, Middlesbrough, and Shelbourne in Dublin.
Despite fading health and a cruel cancer, he still had his smile and his strength of character to the end. 'Time Transfer' wrote: David Jack was another Arsenal player who also turned out for England, a cultured, stylish forward, who turned up to the ground wearing spats! Quote: Fast, clever and a consistent goal-scorer. Is a star sprinter, hurdler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jackhttps://afchistory.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/arsenal-legend-david-jack-dies-on-this-day-10th-september-1958/?https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-jack-the-jewel-of-highbury-1180416.htmlhttps://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/gunners-greatest-players-49.-david-jack?https://www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/title/19823/https://bergkampesque.com/2020/05/22/arsenal-best-attackers-ever-no7-one-of-the-finest-inside-rights-ever-seen/?utm_source=chatgpt.comhttps://spartacus-educational.com/BOLTONjack.htmhttps://www.greensonscreen.co.uk/gosdb-players2.asp?pid=421https://www.ebay.ca/itm/155773901397?zarsrc=30&utm_source=zalo&utm_medium=zalo&utm_campaign=zalo
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