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Ernie Butler
Personal information
Full name Ernest Butler
Date of birth (1919-05-13)13 May 1919
Place of birth Box, Wiltshire, England
Date of death 31 January 2002(2002-01-31) (aged 82)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Box
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1946–1953 Portsmouth 222 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ernest Butler (13 May 1919 – 31 January 2002) was an English footballer.

He signed for Portsmouth from Bath City and served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War and was a guest goalkeeper for Tranmere Rovers when stationed on Merseyside .[1] Whilst at Portsmouth he won back-to-back Football League Championships.

References

Specific
  1. ^ "Pompey mourn Butler". BBC Online. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
  • Ernie Butler at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Transfer Database