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Had another 1959 card reply,this time from former Wolves player Bill Slater.
Slater started his career as a 16-year-old amateur at Blackpool in 1944, and played in the 1951 FA Cup Final in which Blackpool lost to Newcastle United, becoming the last amateur to play in an FA Cup Final at Wembley. Another record he jointly holds is Blackpool's fastest-ever goal: eleven seconds into a game against Stoke City on 10 December 1949.
In December 1951 he moved to Brentford where he made 30 appearances, and then, in August 1952, joined Wolverhampton Wanderers as a part-time professional. He remained at Molineux until 1963, making 339 total appearances and scoring 25 goals. He won three Football League championships (1953–54, 1957–58, 1958–59), as well as being runners-up (1954–55, 1959–60). He also won an FA Cup (1960, against Blackburn Rovers, in the year he was voted Footballer of the Year). He also gained 12 caps for England, including four in the 1958 World Cup.
In July 1963, he returned to Brentford.
In 1982, Slater was awarded an OBE for his services to sport. A CBE followed in 1998.
Slater also represented Great Britain at the 1952 Summer Olympics
