Richard Waters (footballer)

Richard Waters
Personal information
Date of birth (1945-05-18)18 May 1945[1]
Place of birth Gateshead,[1] County Durham, England
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Blyth Spartans
1965 Darlington 2 (0)
Gateshead
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Richard E. Waters[2] (born 18 May 1945) is an English former footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League for Darlington, and in non-league football for Blyth Spartans and Gateshead.[1][3] As a 19-year-old amateur standing in for Ray Snowball, Waters played twice in the Fourth Division in March 1965, in a 2–1 defeat at home to Torquay United and a 3–0 loss away to Chesterfield.[4]

  1. ^ a b c "Richard Waters". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  2. ^ Tweddle, Frank (2000). The Definitive Darlington F.C. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-899468-15-7.
  3. ^ "Darlington: 1946/47–1988/89 & 1990/91–2009/10". Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Players Database. Neil Brown. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  4. ^ Tweddle, Definitive Darlington, p. 67.