Jimmy Whitehouse

Position
Forward
Nationality
Place Of Birth
West Bromwich
Date Of Birth
September 19, 1934
Date Of Death
May 26, 2022 (87)
Games Played
58
-
Per Game
Games Started
58
1.0
Per Game
Minutes
5250
90.5
Per Game
Goals
19
0.3
Per Game
Assists
0
0
Per Game
Notes
Stats
Matches
Transfers
Gallery
Internationals

A tall, blond scheming inside forward who was a star of Coventry’s famous 1963 FA Cup run when, as a Third Division club, they reached the sixth round in a blaze of glory. Jimmy scored nine goals in six FA Cup games to add to his nine league goals and played some of the best football of his career but it was not sufficient to win promotion for the club. The concertinaed cup run had taken too much out of the players and City slipped to finish fourth.

During the close season Jimmy suffered a painful stomach muscle injury and when he recovered he couldn’t win his place back from Ernie Machin and played only nine more games in Sky Blue. In March 1964 manager Jimmy Hill sold him to Millwall for £4,500.

Jimmy Hill signed Jimmy on a free transfer from Reading, where he had a five-year career scoring 67 goals in over 220 games. Born at Greets Green in the Black Country he joined his local team West Brom and had six years at the Hawthorns but never quite made the first team. The Baggies were one of the top teams in the country in the mid 1950s and Jimmy had to move to Reading to make a name for himself.

The stay at Millwall was brief – he played less than a season before moving on to non-league football with first Hillingdon Borough and later Hastings United and Andover. He worked for an engineering company in Reading after hanging up his boots and later indulged his love of betting by becoming an on-course bookmaker and he could often be found at Oxford or Reading dog-tracks.

Football League Third Division (England)
1963-1964
Coventry City
9
9
810′
3 (0)
1962-1963
Coventry City
37
37
3330′
9 (0)
46
46
0
4140′
0
0
0
12 (0)
0
0
League Cup (England)
1963-1964
Coventry City
1
1
90′
1962-1963
Coventry City
2
2
180′
1 (0)
3
3
0
270′
0
0
0
1 (0)
0
0
FA Cup (England)
1962-1963
Coventry City
9
9
840′
6 (0)
9
9
0
840′
0
0
0
6 (0)
0
0
Totals:
58
58
0
5250′
0
0
0
19 (0)
0
0
Date
For
Against
H/A
Result
Football League Third Division 1963-1964
Football League Third Division 1963-1964
Coventry City
Mansfield Town
A
L 3:2
90`
Coventry City
Hull City
H
D 2:2
90`
Coventry City
Luton Town
H
D 3:3
90`
Coventry City
Reading
A
D 2:2
90`
2
Coventry City
Millwall
H
W 3:0
90`
Coventry City
Barnsley
A
D 1:1
90`
1
Coventry City
Walsall
H
W 1:0
90`
Coventry City
Shrewsbury Town
A
D 0:0
90`
Coventry City
Mansfield Town
H
L 0:3
90`
League Cup 1963-1964
League Cup 1963-1964
Coventry City
Rotherham United
A
L 4:2
90`
Football League Third Division 1962-1963
Football League Third Division 1962-1963
Coventry City
Reading
A
L 4:1
90`
Coventry City
Carlisle United
A
W 0:1
90`
Coventry City
Brighton & Hove Albion
H
D 1:1
90`
Coventry City
Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic
H
L 1:2
90`
1
Coventry City
Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic
A
D 1:1
90`
Coventry City
Halifax Town
H
W 5:4
90`
1
Coventry City
Wrexham
A
L 5:1
90`
Coventry City
Crystal Palace
H
W 1:0
90`
Coventry City
Queens Park Rangers
H
W 4:1
90`
Coventry City
Northampton Town
A
D 0:0
90`
Coventry City
Colchester United
H
D 2:2
90`
Coventry City
Barnsley
H
W 2:0
90`
1
Coventry City
Peterborough United
H
D 3:3
90`
1
Coventry City
Peterborough United
A
W 0:3
90`
Coventry City
Notts County
A
D 1:1
90`
Coventry City
Carlisle United
H
W 3:2
90`
1
Coventry City
Brighton & Hove Albion
A
D 2:2
90`
Coventry City
Halifax Town
A
W 2:4
90`
Coventry City
Wrexham
H
W 3:0
90`
1
Coventry City
Hull City
H
D 2:2
90`
Coventry City
Bristol City
H
W 4:2
90`
1
Coventry City
Northampton Town
H
D 1:1
90`
Coventry City
Barnsley
A
L 2:1
90`
Coventry City
Bristol City
A
D 1:1
90`
1
Coventry City
Reading
H
W 2:1
90`
Coventry City
Bradford Park Avenue
A
D 0:0
90`
Coventry City
Port Vale
A
L 2:1
90`
Coventry City
Bradford Park Avenue
H
W 3:1
90`
Coventry City
Shrewsbury Town
H
D 0:0
90`
Coventry City
Watford
A
L 6:1
90`
Coventry City
Millwall
A
D 3:3
90`
Coventry City
Watford
H
W 3:1
90`
Coventry City
Southend United
H
L 2:3
90`
Coventry City
Swindon Town
H
W 2:0
90`
1
Coventry City
Colchester United
A
D 0:0
90`
Coventry City
Swindon Town
A
L 4:1
90`
Coventry City
Notts County
H
W 2:0
90`
FA Cup 1962-1963
FA Cup 1962-1963
Coventry City
Manchester United
H
L 1:3
90`
Coventry City
Sunderland
H
W 2:1
90`
Coventry City
Portsmouth
A
W 1:2
90`
1
Coventry City
Portsmouth
H
D 2:2
120`
2
Coventry City
Portsmouth
A
D 1:1
90`
Coventry City
Lincoln City
A
W 1:5
90`
1
Coventry City
Millwall
H
W 2:1
90`
1
Coventry City
Millwall
A
D 0:0
90`
Coventry City
Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic
H
W 1:0
90`
1
League Cup 1962-1963
League Cup 1962-1963
Coventry City
Portsmouth
A
L 5:1
90`
Coventry City
Swansea Town
H
W 3:2
90`
1
Club Out
Club In
Transfer Date
Fee
Club Out / Club In
Transfer Date / Fee
Coventry City
Millwall
Sun, 01 Mar, 1964
Coventry City
Millwall
Sun, 01 Mar, 1964
Reading
Coventry City
Wed, 01 Aug, 1962
Reading
Coventry City
Wed, 01 Aug, 1962