Brian Wood (footballer)

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Full name Brian Thomas Wood Name Brian Wood		Place of death Saxtead, England
Date of birth (1940-12-08)8 December 1940 Date of death 5 July 2014(2014-07-05) (aged 73)
Place of birth Hamworthy, England Playing position Central Defender

Brian Thomas Wood (8 December 1940 – 5 July 2014) was an English footballer who played as a central defender.

Career

Born in Hamworthy, Wood made a total of 476 appearances in The Football League for West Bromwich Albion, Crystal Palace, Leyton Orient, Colchester United and Workington. After leaving Workington, he became a scout for Preston North End, a job he combined with managing the Willis Faber and Dumas sports club in Ipswich.

After suffering dementia and Parkinson's disease, Wood died in a care home in Saxtead, Suffolk on 5 July 2014.

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