Arthur Shallcross was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 association football manager who managed Stoke City

Stoke City F.C.

Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire that plays in the Premier League. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest club in the Premier League, and considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts...

 between 1919 and 1923.

Career

Shallcross played for his native Leek and was also a match referee before becoming Stoke manager in February 1919. He never really hit it off with the supporters, especially after transferring Charles Parker

Charlie Parker (footballer)

Charlie Parker was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Carlisle United, Stoke, Sunderland and on one occasion, for England, as a central defender.-Club career:...

 to Sunderland, but he did bring in Bob McGrory

Bob McGrory

Robert McGrory was a Scottish footballer who played as a defender. After starting his career at Dumbarton, he later moved to the English club Burnley where he made three appearances. In 1921, he moved to First Division side Stoke City where he made 511 appearances as a full-back. He later became a...

 from Burnley

Burnley F.C.

Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...

.

Under Shallcross the team had one or two good spells, yet only avoided relegation by the skin of their teeth in 1921, Twelve months later however he had turned things round completely as he led the potters to the First Division. Sadly from his point of view, results started to go wrong and relegation was suffered. This led to Shallcross resigning is march 1923. He was in charge of team affairs for 162 League games, of which only 56 were won. He died in Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent

Stoke-on-Trent , also called The Potteries is a city in Staffordshire, England, which forms a linear conurbation almost 12 miles long, with an area of . Together with the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme Stoke forms The Potteries Urban Area...

 in 1950 aged 74.

Career statistics

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	Win %
Stoke Stoke City F.C. Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire that plays in the Premier League. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest club in the Premier League, and considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts...	1 February 1919	31 March 1923	171	59	23	69