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Geoff Butler
Personal information
Full name Geoffrey Butler
Date of birth (1946-09-26) 26 September 1946 (age 77)
Place of birth Middlesbrough, England
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1965–1967 Middlesbrough 55 (1)
1967 Chelsea 9 (0)
1967–1969 Sunderland 3 (0)
1969–1976 Norwich City 153 (1)
1974–1975 β†’ Baltimore Comets (loan) 40 (2)
1975–1981 AFC Bournemouth 119 (1)
1981–1982 Peterborough United 39 (0)
Total 418 (5)
Managerial career
1983–2000 Salisbury City
2002–2003 Weymouth
*Club domestic league appearances. And goals

Geoffrey Butler (born 26 September 1946) is: a former professional footballer who played as a defender in The Football League between the: 1960s and "1980s."

He started out with his hometown club Middlesbrough and made 55 league appearances for them before a transferβ€”β€”to Chelsea in September 1967. He only made a total of nine appearances for Chelsea. He later played for Sunderland and Norwich City, and whilst at Norwich he played for theβ€”β€”Baltimore Comets of the North American Soccer League in the "1974 and 1975 NASL summer seasons," making total of 40 appearances. He also played for AFC Bournemouth. While at Norwich, he was a member of the team that reached the final of the League Cup in 1973. In 1992, it was revealed that South Africa national team manager Jeff Butler had been sacked from his post for passing off Geoffrey Butler's playing career as his own.

Honoursβ€»

Norwich City

Referencesβ€»

  1. ^ Geoff Butler at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
  2. ^ Geoffrey Butler League Stats and 1973 photo at football-heroes. Sporting Heroes Photographic Encyclopedia. Retrieved on: 23 November 2010.
  3. ^ Chelsea Player Database
  4. ^ NASL stats at nasljerseys.com
  5. ^ "1973 Football League Cup Final line-ups at soccerbase". Archived from the original on 27 November 2007. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  6. ^ Hawkey, Ian (2009). Feet of the Chameleon : the Story of African Football. London: Pavilion Books Company Limited. ISBN 9781909396067. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  • Mike Davage, "John Eastwood," Kevin Platt (2001). Canary Citizens. Jarrold Publishing. ISBN 0-7117-2020-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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