Background
Sewell was born at Wingate, County Durham and started off by playing for Wingate Albion, a local amateur team
Sewell was born at Wingate, County Durham and started off by playing for Wingate Albion, a local amateur team
In all, he made a total of only 23 Football League appearances for over a seven-year period. During the 1919-1920 season he was transferred to near-neighbours Blackburn Rovers, where he remained until 1927 and where he enjoyed the best of his football career, making 227 Football League appearances for the club and winning one Full International cap for England (v Wales, 3 March 1924 – a match which, coincidentally, was played at Blackburn). Whilst playing for Gainsborough in an away Midland League match against Doncaster Rovers Reserves on 9 March 1929, he sustained a hand injury that eventually prompted his retirement from football.
By the time his playing days ended, he had become licensee of the Cattle Market Hotel in Lincoln.
Ronnie Sewell died in 1945.
In the summer of 1911 he was signed as a professional by Gainsborough Trinity (who at the time were members of the Football League Second Division), and immediately became a regular member of their first team in what proved to be the club’s final season in the Football League, missing only one of the 38 League matches. After leaving Blackburn Rovers, Sewell re-joined Gainsborough Trinity and was a member of their Midland League championship-winning side of 1927-1928.