 He spent most of his career with Wigan Athletic, having been brought up at Espanyol.HMS Sandwich (1679)

HMS "Sandwich" was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in May 1679 at Harwich.At the battle of Barfleur, she failed to anchor during the flood tide at evening and as a result was swept through the French fleet taking several raking shots with the captain Antony Hastings being killed.