Maurice Setters – SkyBlueArchive

Position

Midfielder

Nationality

Place Of Birth

Honiton

Date Of Birth

December 16, 1936

Date Of Death

November 20, 2020 (83)

Games Played

Per Game

Games Started

1.0

Per Game

Minutes

5009

84.9

Per Game

Goals

0.1

Per Game

Assists

0.02

Per Game

Noel Cantwell made Maurice Setters one of his first signings in November 1967. With City marooned at the foot of the table Cantwell needed a replacement for the injured George Curtis and his old Manchester United teammate was the ideal man. A rugged wing-half who was one of the hardest men in football his inspiration leadership helped City to avoid relegation in 1967-68 and he played on until the emergence of Jeff Blockley. The bandy-legged Setters was not a tall man but could leap with the best and in City’s crucial game at the Dell in May 1968 he gave a typical fighting display to foil Ron Davies, one of the division’s top strikers, and finished the game with a blood stained shirt.
Setters had made his name at West Brom following a £4,000 move from Exeter City in 1955 and he went on to play over 200 games for the Baggies in the next five years as well as winning 11 England under-23 caps and being a reserve for the full England squad for the 1958 World Cup finals. Matt Busby signed him for Manchester United in 1960 as part of the post-Munich rebuilding and the crew-cutted enforcer tightened a fragile United defence in almost 200 games. Setters played in the victorious 1963 FA Cup final team but the emergence of Nobby Stiles meant he was surplus at Old Trafford and in 1964 he joined Stoke. Tony Waddington converted him to a centre-half and it was in this position that he would flourish at Highfield Road. He arrived with a reputation for being sent off but in 59 games for the Sky Blues only saw red once, for a late tackle on Liverpool’s Alun Evans which the Liverpool man retaliated.
In February 1970 Maurice signed for Charlton but shortly afterwards he moved into management with Doncaster Rovers. A great pal of Jack Charlton he was number two to Big Jack at first Sheffield Wednesday and later for almost ten years with the Republic of Ireland.

Sent off (1)
1968-69
22 April 1969 v Liverpool H, fighting with Alun Evans

FA Cup (England)

1969-1970

103′

1967-1968

135′

238′

0 (0)

Football League First Division (England)

1969-1970

662′

1968-1969

1499′

2 (0)

1967-1968

2250′

1 (0)

4411′

3 (0)

League Cup (England)

1968-1969

360′

0 (0)

Totals:

5009′

3 (0)