Wilf Tranter

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Wilf Tranter
Personal information
Full name Wilfred Tranter
Date of birth (1945-03-05) 5 March 1945 (age 78)
Place of birth Pendlebury, Lancashire, England
Date of death 2 July 2021(2021-07-02) (aged 76)
Position(s) Half-back
Youth career
St Gregory's (Pendlebury)
Manchester Schoolboys
Lancashire Schoolboys
1961–1962 Manchester United
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1962–1966 Manchester United 1 (0)
1966–1969 Brighton & Hove Albion 47 (1)
1968 Baltimore Bays (loan) 12 (2)
1969–1972 Fulham 23 (0)
1972 St. Louis Stars (loan) 14 (0)
1972–? Dover Town ? (?)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Wilfred Tranter (born 5 March 1945) is an English former footballer who played as a half-back. Born in Pendlebury, Lancashire, he played for Manchester United, Brighton & Hove Albion, Fulham, Baltimore Bays and St. Louis Stars. He made his Football League debut for Manchester United two days after his 19th birthday on 7 March 1964, when regular centre-half Bill Foulkes missed the trip to West Ham United due to injury; Tranter was praised for his defensive handling of West Ham forward Johnny Byrne as Manchester United won 2–0. [1] It proved to be his only appearance for the club and he left for Brighton in May 1966. [1] He spent two-and-a-half years on the south coast, including a four-month loan spell with the Baltimore Bays in the North American Soccer League (NASL) between April and August 1968, before joining Fulham in January 1969. [1] At the end of his three-and-a-half-year stay in London, he went back on loan to the United States during the 1972 NASL season to play for the St. Louis Stars. [1]

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