Kelvin Leslie Clarke (born 16 July 1957) is an English former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played in

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as a defender for

Walsall Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a market town and administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located ...

. Clarke was born in

Willenhall Willenhall is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, Walsall district, in the county of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England, with a population taken at the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 Census of 49,587. It is ...

, the fourth of five brothers ( Frank, Allan,

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and Wayne) who all went on to play League football. He was signed by

as an apprentice, and turned professional in July 1975. He made nine league appearances, without scoring, before an ankle injury forced his retirement in 1978.

References

1957 births Living people Sportspeople from Willenhall English men's footballers Men's association football defenders Walsall F.C. players English Football League players {{England-footy-defender-1950s-stub