Full name William Samuel Booth Name Bill Booth Playing position | Place of birth Hove, England | |
Date of birth (1920-07-07)7 July 1920 Date of death 18 February 1990(1990-02-18) (aged 69) | ||
Place of death Eastbourne, England | ||
William Samuel Booth (7 July 1920 – 18 February 1990) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion and Port Vale.
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Playing career
Booth played for his local side Hove Penguins and Brighton & Hove Albion, before joining First Division club Wolverhampton Wanderers. He was unable to break into their first team at Molineux and moved to Port Vale in the Third Division South in February 1939.
After ten consecutive games for the "Valiants" in 1938–39, he was given a free transfer to league rivals Cardiff City. He later guested for Birmingham City and Leeds United during the war, before moving permanently back to Brighton & Hove Albion after the war. Don Welsh's "Seagulls" finished bottom of the Third Division South in 1947–48 and had to apply for re-election, before rising to sixth place in 1948–49. He then moved into non-league football with newly founded Southern League club Hastings United.