Bert Llewellyn

Bert Llewellyn
Personal information
Full name Herbert Arthur Llewellyn[1]
Date of birth (1939-02-05)5 February 1939[1]
Place of birth Golborne, Lancashire, England[1]
Date of death 8 September 2016(2016-09-08) (aged 77)[2][3]
Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[4]
Position(s) Centre-forward
Youth career
Everton
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1956–1958 Everton 11 (2)
1958–1960 Crewe Alexandra 96 (47)
1960–1963 Port Vale 88 (42)
1963 Northampton Town 1 (0)
1964–1965 Walsall 17 (6)
1965–1968 Wigan Athletic 115 (96)
Total 327 (192)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Herbert Arthur Llewellyn (5 February 1939 – 8 September 2016) was an English footballer. A centre-forward, he scored 114 goals in 239 league and cup appearances in a nine-year career in the Football League.

He began his career at Everton in May 1956 and played eleven top-flight games before moving on to Crewe Alexandra in July 1958. He proved a prolific signing, hitting 51 goals in 96 league games, before he was sold on to Port Vale for a £7,000 fee in November 1960. He was sold to Northampton Town for £7,000 in February 1963 but soon found himself without a club after breaking his leg 11 minutes into his "Cobblers" debut. He returned to the game with Walsall in February 1964 before he signed with Cheshire County League side Wigan Athletic in the summer of 1965. He spent three seasons with the "Latics", bagging 140 goals in 185 games as the club won a succession of minor trophies.

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  2. ^ "Bert Llewellyn Passes Away". Everton FC. 8 September 2016. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
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  4. ^ Kent, Jeff (December 1991). Port Vale Tales: A Collection of Stories, Anecdotes And Memories. Witan Books. p. 280. ISBN 0-9508981-6-3.