Geoff Butler

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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*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1965–1967 Middlesbrough 55 (1)
1967 Chelsea 9 (0)
1967–1969 Sunderland 3 (0)
1969–1976 Norwich City 153 (1)
1974–1975Baltimore Comets (loan) 40 (2)
1975–1981 AFC Bournemouth 119 (1)
1981–1982 Peterborough United 39 (0)
Total418(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. [1]

He started out with his hometown club Middlesbrough and made 55 league appearances for them before a transfer to Chelsea in September 1967. [2] He only made a total of nine appearances for Chelsea. [3] He later played for Sunderland and Norwich City, [1] and whilst at Norwich he played for the Baltimore Comets of the North American Soccer League in the 1974 and 1975 NASL summer seasons, making a total of 40 appearances. [4] He also played for AFC Bournemouth. [2] While at Norwich, he was a member of the team that reached the final of the League Cup in 1973. [5] 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. [6]

Honours

Norwich City

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References

  1. 1 2 Geoff Butler at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database
  2. 1 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.