Roger Ernest Morgan (born 14 November 1946) is an English former

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who played as a winger in

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for

Queens Park Rangers Queens Park Rangers Football Club, commonly abbreviated to QPR, is a professional association football club based in Shepherd's Bush, West London, England. The team currently compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English f ...

and

Tottenham Hotspur Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Tottenham (, , , ) or Spurs, is a professional Association football, football club based in Tottenham, North London, England. The club itself has stated that it should always ...

Career

Born in

Walthamstow Walthamstow ( or ) is a town within the London Borough of Waltham Forest in east London. The town borders Chingford to the north, Snaresbrook and South Woodford to the east, Leyton and Leytonstone to the south, and Tottenham to the west. At ...

, London, Morgan came through the ranks at

to make his debut in a 2–2 draw against Gillingham on 3 October 1964. He scored QPR's first ever goal at

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, their first goal in the 1967 Football League Cup Final against

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, which QPR won 3–2 with further goals from

Rodney Marsh Rodney William Marsh (born 11 October 1944) is an English former footballer and football coach; he later worked as a broadcaster. A forward, he won nine caps for England between 1971 and 1973, scoring one international goal. Brought up in the ...

and

Mark Lazarus Mark Lazarus (born 5 December 1938) is an English retired professional association football, footballer. He played as a right winger and made more than 400 Football League appearances, scoring over 100 goals. A prominent Jewish player, he initi ...

to overturn a two-goal deficit. In total, Morgan played 180 league games for QPR scoring 39 goals before joining

in 1969 for a fee of £110,000. Injury forced his early retirement in 1973. He spent 18 years at

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as Football in the Community Manager. Roger Morgan coached David Beckham as a youngster. Morgan's identical twin brother

Ian Ian or Iain is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin, which is derived from the Hebrew given name ( Yohanan, ') and corresponds to the English name John. The spelling Ian is an Anglicization of the Scottish Gaelic forename ''Iain''. This name is a po ...

also played for QPR. They adopted different hairstyles in order to tell them apart when playing in the same team.

References

1946 births Living people English identical twins Footballers from the London Borough of Waltham Forest People from Walthamstow English men's footballers England men's under-23 international footballers Men's association football midfielders English Football League players Queens Park Rangers F.C. players Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players English football managers West Ham United L.F.C. managers West Ham United F.C. non-playing staff English twins {{England-footy-midfielder-1940s-stub