Trevor_Roberts_(footballer)

Trevor Roberts (footballer)

Trevor Roberts (footballer)

Welsh footballer

Trevor Roberts (25 February 1942 – June 1972) was a Welsh professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He made a total of 207 appearances in the Football League for Southend United and Cambridge United before dying of a brain tumour at the age of 30.

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Career

Roberts began his career as a youth player at Liverpool, combining his playing there with studying for a degree in geography at Liverpool University,[1] He then played in the Football League for Southend United and Cambridge United between 1965 and 1972, making 207 appearances.[2]

Death

In 1968 Roberts recovered from lung cancer.[1] In February 1972 he was admitted to hospital with a brain tumour and died in June 1972 in a nursing home, at the age of 30.[3][4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Ex Reds Keeper Dies". Liverpool Echo. 2 June 1972. p. 1.
  2. [2]
    "Profile". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  3. [3]
    "Death notices – Rest in Peace – 1960s and 1970s". Nigel's Webspace – Galleries of English Football Cards 1965/66 – 1979/80. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  4. [4]
    "The Southend United Miscellany" (PDF). Shrimpers Trust. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
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