Malcolm Butler | |
Fullname: | Malcolm Partridge Butler |
Birth Date: | 6 August 1913 |
Birth Place: | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Death Date: | December 1987 (age 75) |
Position: | Full Back |
Height: | 5 ft 8 in[1] |
Youthclubs1: | Elmgrove |
Youthclubs2: | Belfast Celtic |
Years1: | 1935–1939 |
Caps1: | 25 |
Goals1: | 0 |
Years2: | 1947–1948 |
Clubs2: | Accrington Stanley |
Caps2: | 32 |
Goals2: | 0 |
Totalcaps: | 57 |
Totalgoals: | 0 |
Nationalyears1: | 1939 |
Nationalteam1: | Ireland |
Nationalcaps1: | 1 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Malcolm Partridge Butler (6 August 1913 – December 1987) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a full-back in The Football League for Blackpool and Accrington Stanley. He also won one cap for Ireland.
Belfast-born Butler left Belfast Celtic to sign for Blackpool in January 1935.[2] His four-year career with the club was ended by the outbreak of the Second World War.
During the war he guested for both Chelsea and Brighton, playing around his time as a Flight-Lieutenant navigator in the Royal Air Force.
In July 1947 he signed with Accrington Stanley, and captained the club to a sixth-place finish in the Football League Third Division North before retiring in May 1948.
On 15 March 1939, he played for Ireland in their 3–1 defeat to Wales.[3] It was the country's last match before World War II.
After leaving the game he became a licensee in Blackpool.