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Full name | Ronald Deryk George Springett | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 22 July 1935 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Fulham, London, England | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 12 September 2015 | (aged 80)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Kingston upon Thames, England | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
Victoria United | |||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1953–1958 | Queens Park Rangers | 88 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1958–1967 | Sheffield Wednesday | 345 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1967–1969 | Queens Park Rangers | 45 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Total | 478 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1959–1966 | England | 33 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1963 | England (representative) | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1960–1966 | The Football League XI | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Ronald Deryk George Springett[2] (22 July 1935 – 12 September 2015) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
He began his career with QPR in 1953 where he made 147 appearances over two spells. He had a nine-year spell with Sheffield Wednesday between 1958 and 1967 and amassed 384 appearances for them before returning to QPR to finish his career.
He earned 33 caps for England between 1959 and 1966 and was part of the squad that won the 1966 FIFA World Cup.