Ken Faulkner

Ken Faulkner
Personal information
Full name Kenneth Gordon Faulkner
Date of birth (1923-09-10)10 September 1923
Place of birth Smethwick, England
Date of death 2000[1] (aged 77)
Place of death Birmingham,[1] England
Playing position Forward
Youth career
Smethwick Highfield
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1943–1947 Birmingham City 2 (0)
Oldbury United

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Kenneth Gordon Faulkner (10 September 1923 – 2000) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Birmingham City.[2]

Faulkner was born in Smethwick, Staffordshire. Capped by England at schoolboy level, he had a successful trial with Birmingham City during the Second World War.[3] Faulkner, a forward, played for Birmingham in the 1944–45 season of wartime competition,[4] and also made guest appearances for Coventry City and Port Vale.[5] He made his debut in the penultimate game of the 1946–47 Second Division season, playing at outside right in a 2–0 win at Millwall. The last game of that season proved to be his last for the club;[6] he was released in the 1947 close season and joined Oldbury United.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "England & Wales deaths 1837–2007 Transcription". Kenneth Gordon Faulkner. Birth date: 10 Sep 1923. Death quarter: 4. Death year: 2000. District: Birmingham. County: Warwickshire. District number: 0611B. Register number: B19B. Entry number: 210. Date of registration mm/yy: 1200. Retrieved 21 July 2015 via Findmypast. (subscription required (help)).
  2. "Birmingham City : 1946/47–2007/08". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
  3. 1 2 Matthews, Tony (1995). Birmingham City: A Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-85983-010-9.
  4. Matthews, p. 239.
  5. Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 99. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.
  6. Matthews, p. 182.
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