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Barry Butler (footballer, born 1934)

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in December 1954 spelled the end of his Wednesday career. Butler played just three more games in a Wednesday shirt – the final one as a centre-forward – before he was relegated to the reserves for the remaining two years of his time at Hillsborough. He played a total of 36 games for the club, scoring
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Butler, who played for Norwich until his death in a car crash in 1966, was often referred to as one of the best defenders in the league by opponents and is regarded as one of Norwich's greatest ever players. Butler also played for
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club paying South Bank £300 for his services. After working his way up the ranks in the "A" team and reserves he finally made his first team debut for the Owls on 2 January 1954 at the age of 19. Butler replaced the injured
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Butler was educated at Richard Hind secondary school in his hometown of Stockton. Whilst there he captained both the football and cricket teams. Upon leaving school Butler took a job as an apprentice electrical fitter at
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relinquished his playing duties to take up the job of managing the team on a permanent basis. Around the same time he earned his FA coaching badge, and later he was awarded the role of player-coach for the
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Butler would never take up his position as player-coach. On 9 April 1966, Butler was killed in a car crash at the age of 31, his car having collided with a bus late at night. His funeral was held at
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described him as "...probably the best centre-half who has ever played for the club...On the field he was a leader, a real leader. He was the man who kept the team going all the time."
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season. He played a total of 349 matches for the club including a consecutive run of 208 games which was only broken because of his appearance in an FA XI side.
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The match would be the start of a 19 consecutive game run in the first team for Butler, a sequence that ended in the 4–1 loss at home to
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to mark the club's centenary, Butler's widow attended to represent him. His son David also attended a Hall of Fame dinner at
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paid Sheffield Wednesday a transfer fee of £5,000 for Butler in August 1957, just after he had finished his service in the
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where he played in the works football team. He played for various minor clubs whilst at ICI including
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In 2002, when the club held an on-pitch reunion of former players prior to a match against
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The Wednesday Boys: A Definitive Who's Who of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club 1880–2005
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by Mark Davage, John Eastwood, Kevin Platt, published by Jarrold Publishing, (2001),
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season, he was a member of the Norwich team that embarked on one of the most famous
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along the way and narrowly lost the semi-final in a replay at St Andrews against
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in his honour, and has been voted for by the supporters every year since then.
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4–0 in a two-legged final. At the time Butler was considered to be the best
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Butler joined Sheffield Wednesday as a teenager in September 1952 with the
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games as the Owls reached the semi-finals, eventually being beaten 2–0 by
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side at the time, they reached the semi-finals, defeating, among others,
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Norwich City F.C. in 1959 with – from left, standing:
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Barry Butler (disambiguation)
Stockton-on-Tees
Sprowston
Norwich
Centre half
South Bank
Sheffield Wednesday
Norwich City

Roy McCrohan
Ralph Hunt
Ken Nethercott
Ron Ashman
Matt Crowe
Errol Crossan
Terry Allcock
Terry Bly
Jimmy Hill
Bobby Brennan
footballer
Norwich City
Sheffield Wednesday
ICI
Billingham
Northern League
Hillsborough
Cyril Turton
Division One
Burnley
Huddersfield Town

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