Walter Rayner (born 1882) was a British football manager and player. He was

Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic Football Club is a professional association football club based in Charlton, south-east London, England. The team compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system. Their home ground is ...

's first full-time manager as a professional football team from June 1920, when the club played in the Southern League, to May 1925, when the club played in the

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. He became manager of Wigan Borough F.C. in October 1925. Rayner had been recruited by Charlton from

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, where he was a player-coach. He had also been a player-coach at

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During his career as a player, he played for

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In 1909, he was the reserve team captain at

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In February 1926, Rayner was suspended from Wigan after a dispute with a referee and opposing players, and was banned from football management following an enquiry into financial irregularities at Charlton.　After his career in football, he ran a hardware store in

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