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Gil Merrick

1922 - 2010

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Gilbert Harold Merrick (26 January 1922 – 3 February 2010) was an English footballer and football manager. Considered one of the best goalkeepers in the UK during the mid-1950s, Merrick was one in a long line of great Birmingham City keepers which included the likes of Johnny Schofield and Harry Hibbs. Merrick spent his entire career at Birmingham City, playing more than 700 times between 1939 and 1960. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gil Merrick has received more than 78,806 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gil Merrick is the 5,753rd most popular soccer player (down from 5,125th in 2019), the 5,511th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,920th in 2019) and the 303rd most popular British Soccer Player.

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  • 79k

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  • 37.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Gil Merrick ranks 5,753 out of 16,880. Before him are Tuncay Şanlı, Gerson, Koen Casteels, Takumi Horiike, Darío Benedetto, and Stefano Okaka. After him are Marco van Ginkel, Bill Eckersley, Harumi Kori, Sérgio Oliveira, Kōji Nakata, and Rade Krunić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Gil Merrick ranks 394. Before him are Herb McKenley, Kathleen Booth, Herbert Goldstein, Bill Macy, Joan Caulfield, and Bert I. Gordon. After him are Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Lamont Johnson, Frank Spellman, Norman Lear, and Stanford R. Ovshinsky. Among people deceased in 2010, Gil Merrick ranks 402. Before him are Shoya Tomizawa, Malcolm Allison, Isabella Abbott, Dorothy Janis, Zbigniew Wassermann, and Janet Simpson. After him are Dorothy Height, Adele Mara, John Dankworth, Lamont Johnson, June Havoc, and Ellis Clarke.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gil Merrick ranks 5,511 out of 7,765. Before him are Colley Cibber (1671), Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852), William Regal (1968), Russell T Davies (1963), George MacKay (1992), and Roy Evans (1948). After him are Bill Eckersley (1925), Gary Brabham (1961), Oliver Parker (1960), Kathy Kirby (1938), Yasmin Le Bon (1964), and Ann Packer (1942).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Gil Merrick ranks 303. Before him are Alan Mullery (1941), John Stones (1994), Mark Noble (1987), Henry Cockburn (1921), Scott Carson (1985), and Roy Evans (1948). After him are Bill Eckersley (1925), Tony Waiters (1937), Alan Kennedy (1954), Steve Sumner (1955), Allenby Chilton (1918), and Ian St John (1938).

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