 In the 1937–1938 football season Toseland was part of the City team that were relegated from the first division despite scoring more goals than any other team.In 1938 he transferred to Sheffield Wednesday but only played fifteen times for his new team before the outbreak of war.Toseland continued to play amateur football after the war, signing for Mossley at the age of 41 and scored 12 goals in 49 appearances in the 1946–47 season, before retiring at the end of the season.