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Colin Boulton Personal information Full name Colin Donald Boulton Date of birth September 12, 1945 Place of birth Cheltenham, England Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) Playing position Goalkeeper Youth career Charlton Kings Gloucester Police Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1964–1978 Derby County 272 (0) 1976 →Southampton (loan) 5 (0) 1978–1979 Tulsa Roughnecks 46 (0) 1979 Los Angeles Aztecs 12 (0) 1980–1981 Lincoln City 4 (0) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).Colin Donald Boulton (born in Cheltenham, 12 September 1945) was a football player who played as a Goalkeeper.
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Football career
Solid, dependable, ever present are among the things that were said about him. Boulton was the only Derby County player to take part in all 84-league games during the team's two Championship winning seasons.[1]
His career began at lowly Charlton Kings then he took to the beat by playing for Gloucester Police. Boulton was actually a Police Cadet in Cheltenham when he was noticed by Rams manager Tim Ward. Boulton arrived at the Baseball Ground in August 1964. His course to the first team was not always a smooth one, and it must have seemed to him that he was being overlooked as Brian Clough signed Rochdale keeper Les Green in 1968. It took another three seasons for Boulton to get his chance in the first team. Boulton kept 23 clean sheets during the Championship-winning 1971–72 season.[1]
In September 1976, Boulton joined Southampton on loan for a month, as manager Lawrie McMenemy had lost confidence in Ian Turner (who had helped "the Saints" win the FA Cup only a few months earlier) and reserve 'keeper Steve Middleton.[2] He played five games for The Dell club, winning two and losing two, including a 6–2 defeat at Charlton Athletic and victory at Wolverhampton Wanderers by the same scoreline; in his five games, he conceded 11 goals.[3]
Boulton went on to make 344 first team appearances for Derby County before a move to America where he played for Tulsa Roughnecks and Los Angeles Aztecs between 1979 and 1980.[1]
Boulton's final team was back in England, where he played for Lincoln City. However in his fourth game he sustained an injury that was to end his playing career.[1]
On 2 March 2009, it was announced that Boulton had been voted the greatest goalkeeper in Derby County's history.[4]
Later career
On retiring from football, he initially returned to his original career as a police officer, but by the mid 1990s, he was working for a Huddersfield-based sports company.[2]
Honours
References
- ^ a b c d "Rams Remembered....Colin Boulton - Derby County FC - Derby County-Mad". www.derbycounty-mad.co.uk. http://www.derbycounty-mad.co.uk/news/loadroll.asp?cid=ED31&id=55196. Retrieved 2008-05-11.
- ^ a b Holley, Duncan; Chalk, Gary (2003). In That Number – A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC. Hagiology. p. 486. ISBN 0-9534474-3-X.
- ^ In That Number – A post-war chronicle of Southampton FC. p. 138.
- ^ "Top keeper poll-winner Boulton thanks fans". therams.co.uk. http://therams.co.uk/stories/top-keeper-poll-winner-boulton-thanks-fans. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
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Categories:- 1945 births
- Living people
- People from Cheltenham
- Derby County F.C. players
- Southampton F.C. players
- Lincoln City F.C. players
- The Football League players
- Association football goalkeepers
- North American Soccer League players
- Tulsa Roughnecks players
- Los Angeles Aztecs players
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