Malcolm Butler (footballer)

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Malcolm Butler

Personal information
Full name	Malcolm Partridge Butler
Date of birth	(1913-08-06)6 August 1913
Place of birth	Belfast, Northern Ireland
Date of death	December 1987 (age 75)
Height
Position(s)	Full Back
Youth career
	Elmgrove
	Belfast Celtic
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1935–1939	Blackpool	25	(0)
1947–1948	Accrington Stanley	32	(0)
Total		57	(0)
International career
1939	Ireland	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Malcolm Partridge Butler (6 August 1913 - December 1987) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a full back in The Football League for Blackpool and Accrington Stanley. He also won one cap for Ireland.

Club career

Belfast-born Butler left Belfast Celtic to sign for Blackpool in January 1935. His four-year career with the club was ended by the outbreak of the Second World War.

During the war he guested for both Chelsea and Brighton, playing around his time as a Flight-Lieutenant navigator in the Royal Air Force.

In July 1947 he signed with Accrington Stanley, and captained the club to a sixth-place finish in the Football League Third Division North before retiring in May 1948.

International career

On 15 March 1939, he played for Ireland in their 3–1 defeat to Wales. It was the country's last match before World War II.

Post-retirement

After leaving the game he became a licensee in Blackpool.