Philip Anthony Driver (born 10 August 1959) in
Huddersfield
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, England, is an English retired professional
footballer
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who played as a winger for
Wimbledon and
Chelsea
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in
the Football League
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.
Driver was a keen amateur
cricket
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er and played
minor counties cricket
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for
Hertfordshire from 1983 to 1986, making seventeen appearances in the
Minor Counties Championship
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and two appearances in the
MCCA Knockout Trophy
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.
References
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External links
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St Albans City F.C. Statistics
1959 births
Living people
Cricketers from Huddersfield
English men's footballers
Men's association football wingers
Bedford Town F.C. players
Wimbledon F.C. players
Chelsea F.C. players
St Albans City F.C. players
English Football League players
Maidstone United F.C. (1897) players
English cricketers
Hertfordshire cricketers
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