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Danny
Clapton |
Arsenal FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 1 L 0 F 2:
A 2
50% successful
1958
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Daniel Robert Clapton |
|
Birth |
22 July 1934 in
Aldgate, London [registered in
Stepney, London, September 1934]. |
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Marriage |
to Gabrielle I.
Ballard
[registered in Hackney, London, June 1964]. |
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Death |
16 June 1986
in Hackney, aged
51 years 329 days
[registered in Hackney, London, June 1986]. |
|
Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &
 |
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Club Career |
|
Club(s) |
Played football in
Hackney before joining Leytonstone FC. Arsenal FC signed him in August
1953. After 207 league appearances and 25 goals,
he was transferred to Luton Town FC in September 1962 for £6000
transfer fee. He remained for just one season,
making no more than ten league appearances. |
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Club honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
Football League
(one appearance) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5'
9", 10st.
2lbs [1969]. |
|
Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
|
Player number |
775th
player to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Outside-right |
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Only match |
No. 328, 26 November 1958,
England 2 Wales 2, a British Championship match at Villa Park, Birmingham, aged
24 years
127 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1958-59; |
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Team honours |
British Championship shared 1958-59; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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Had been a Smithfield
meat porter prior to turning professional. Went to Australia in late 1964
and assisted Corinthians FC in Sydney. He returned in 1970 to run a pub in
Hackney. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.65. |
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