Moss: Amos

WW2 Guest: 1942-1943 (Leeds United War-time Guest Player Details)

Wing Half

Born: Aston, Birmingham: 28-08-1921

Debut: v Doncaster Rovers (a): 17-10-1942

Height & Weight: Unknown

Moss signed for First Division Aston Villa in May 1939 from Birmingham Boys’ Club, after being on their books as an amateur from 1937 and never played a game before World War Two. Moss played with Villa during World War Two and made seven appearances. He also guested for Leeds United, Wrexham and Clapton Orient during the War period. He played with Leeds United in the 1942-43 Football League Northern Section and made his debut at Left Half on 17th December 1942 in a 2-2 away draw and went on to play three games at Left Half and one at Right Half in the First Championship. He also played four games in the Second Championship campaign with three games at Right Half and one at Centre Half. After the War he made his debut for Villa in 1946-47 when he made eight appearances and while never really establishing himself as a Villa regular he played often enough to make one hundred and two League appearances in which he scored five goals and played seven F.A. Cup ties. He left Villa in 1956 to join Non-League Kettering Town and later played with other Non-League clubs Wisbech Town, Kidderminster Harriers and Rugby Town. He suffered in comparison to his more illustrious Father, Frank “Snowy” Moss (Senior), who played five times for England and played almost three hundred games for Villa in fifteen years, but lost the first World War Years, and his elder brother Frank, Junior, who had over three hundred games with Villa in a similar period to Amos. He died in Birmingham on 8th April 2004.