As a youngster, he played football for local team Cuxton, and was on the books of Charlton Athletic,[1] before enlisting in the Grenadier Guards.

With the crowd behind him roaring and swaying like human breakers, one saw Beby leaping up, fisting out, diving down, most amazingly keeping the ball out of the net, most cleverly getting it away when surrounded by blue shirts.

[14] After a few weeks playing for Kent-based club Ashford Town, Beeby returned to the Football League in October with Bristol Rovers.

Palace were drawn to play away to Exeter City on 24 January 1934, but were due to face Arsenal in the fourth round of the FA Cup three days later.

He introduced shirt numbering, which had not previously been used in Greece,[20] and set the team up to play in the WM formation, the system then generally used in Britain.

[24] By the start of the 1954–55 season, he was working as trainer and coach of Faversham Town; it was reported that "although his time at Salters Lane was relatively short, it was noted there were already signs of better football.