Samuel Burton (10 November 1926 – 8 October 2020) was an English professional

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who played his entire career as a

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for

Swindon Town Swindon Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The team, known as the "Robins", currently compete in , the fourth level of the English football league system. Founded as Swindon A ...

, making 463 appearances in

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and 509 in all first-team competitions. Only John Trollope,

Maurice Owen Maurice Owen (4 July 1924 – 8 July 2000) was an English professional footballer who scored 150 goals in 555 appearances in the Football League playing for Swindon Town. Early life Born in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Owen served as a Chindit in Bur ...

and Fraser Digby played more times for the club. As of October 2018, Burton was still making appearances at Swindon Town's Former Players' Association events, at the age of 91. He died in October 2020 at the age of 93. He had been diagnosed with cancer 12 weeks prior and suffered from dementia.

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