Herbert Chapman Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Herbert Chapman (January 1, 1878 - January 6, 1934) was an English association football player and manager, born in Sheffield.After a non-league footballing career, he turned professional in 1901 with Northampton Town F.C, playing for a series of clubs in an unremarkable career. He returned to Northampton as player-manager in 1907.
In 1912 he joined Leeds City F.C as secretary and presided over a sequence of financial irregularities that resulted in the dissolution of the club in 1919. Fortunate to escape the life-ban that engulfed other servants of the club, Chapman spent a brief spell as manager of a coking plant in Selby before taking the manager's role at Huddersfield Town F.C in 1920. Between 1920 and 1925, when he left for Arsenal F.C, Chapman led the most successful period in Huddersfield's history.
At Arsenal, Chapman implemented a strategy, developed by player Charlie Buchan, that ruthlessly exploited a recent change to the offside law. By the time he died suddenly in 1934 of an infection, Chapman had made Arsenal the dominant side in England.
Chapman was an innovator in areas outside football tactics being an early advocate of floodlights and numbered shirts among many others.