sentences:  In a career that spanned 23 seasons, he made his final appearance for Sheffield United against Portsmouth at Bramall Lane on 1 January 1948 when he was 39 years old.Overall, he made 367 (344 league) appearances and scored 110 goals (101 league) in all competitions, 
  in a career exclusively with United.Pickering had trained as an accountant, and he cut his formal links with the soccer world taking a hotel in Bournemouth.