Editing Johnny Haynes (section)

==Playing career==

The son of a post office engineer, Haynes was born in [[Kentish Town]] and supported Arsenal as a boy. He signed for [[Fulham F.C.|Fulham]] as a 15-year-old amateur in 1950 when Fulham were in a three-season spell in the [[Football League First Division|First Division]]. He was loaned to then non-League [[Wimbledon F.C.|Wimbledon]]. He made his senior debut aged 18 in the 1952 Boxing Day visit of Southampton to Fulham, then in their first season back in the [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]].<ref name=ind/>

Haynes made his debut for [[England national football team|England]] in October 1954, scoring a goal in a 2–0 victory over [[Northern Ireland national football team|Northern Ireland]] in [[Belfast]]. He first captained England in 1960 and played for them in two [[FIFA World Cup|World Cups]].<ref name=BBC/>

He was one of many signatories of a letter to ''The Times'' on 17 July 1958 opposing "the policy of apartheid" in international sport and defending "the principle of racial equality which is embodied in the Declaration of the Olympic Games".<ref>Brown and Hogsbjerg, ''Apartheid is not a game'', 16</ref>

Haynes played in his first of two FA Cup semi-finals in [[1957–58 FA Cup|1958]]. Fulham were eliminated in a replay by the remnants of [[Manchester United]]'s [[Busby Babes]] team that had been devastated by the [[Munich air disaster]] the month before. United were the first top-division team Fulham played in that cup run. Fulham were promoted to the top division after finishing runners-up behind [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.|Sheffield Wednesday]] in 1959. In the [[1959–60 in English football|1959–60 season]], Fulham finished 10th in the First Division, which was their highest league position until finishing 9th in the [[2003–04 Premier League|2003–04 Premier League season]]. Following the abolition of the £20 [[maximum wage]] in 1961, he became Britain's first footballer to earn £100 per week. He played in a second FA Cup semi-final in [[1961–62 FA Cup|1962]], losing in a replay to Burnley. In 1961, during the English off-season, he played abroad in the [[Eastern Canada Professional Soccer League]] with [[Toronto City]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Jose|first=Colin|title=On-Side - 125 Years of Soccer in Ontario|publisher=Ontario Soccer Association and Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum|year=2001|location=Vaughan, Ontario|pages=207}}</ref>

In August 1962 on [[Blackpool]] [[promenade]], the sports car in which he was returning late to his hotel was blown by a gust of wind into the path of another vehicle. Haynes suffered broken bones in both feet and a badly injured knee. He recounted that the police officer who attended the incident reassured him by saying "Don't worry son, you've only broken your legs". He missed almost the entire season and, when he returned to the Fulham side, was not quite the same player. Prior to the accident, he had captained England 22 times, and, being only 27, was expected to lead them in the [[1966 FIFA World Cup]], but he was never again selected for the national team.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1501005/Johnny-Haynes.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Johnny Haynes | date=20 October 2005}}</ref>

Fulham were relegated in 1968. Haynes then had a single spell in football management, taking charge of Fulham for eighteen days in November that year after the dismissal of [[Bobby Robson]] as player-manager, but Haynes never had any ambition to go into coaching. That season, Fulham endured a second successive relegation. His last appearance for Fulham's first team was on 17 January 1970 in a [[Football League Third Division|Third Division]] home match against [[Stockport County F.C.|Stockport County]].{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} In total, he made 657 appearances for Fulham and scored 157 goals.<ref name=ind/>

In 1970, Haynes announced his retirement, aged 35, and joined [[Durban City]], playing one season and winning South Africa's 1970–71 [[National Football League (South Africa)|National Football League]]. This was his only winner's medal in senior football.<ref name=ind>{{cite web | url =https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/johnny-haynes-320776.html | work = [[The Independent]]|date=20 October 2005 | department = Obituaries |title = Johnny Haynes }}</ref> During the [[1972–73 in English football|1972–73 season]], Haynes made three league appearances for [[Non-League football|non-League]] club [[Wealdstone F.C.|Wealdstone]].<ref>{{NFT player|pid=18008|accessdate=8 June 2019}}</ref>