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Frank Saul
Personal information
Full name Frank Lander Saul
Date of birth (1943-08-23) 23 August 1943 (age 81)
Place of birth Canvey Island, Essex, England
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
Canvey Island
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1960–1968 Tottenham Hotspur 116 (37)
1968–1970 Southampton 50 (2)
1970–1972 Queens Park Rangers 43 (4)
1972–1976 Millwall 96 (4)
Dagenham
Total 305 (47)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Frank Lander Saul (born 23 August 1943) is an English former professional footballer who played most of his career as a forward for Tottenham Hotspur.

Playing career

Having started as a youth with Canvey Island F.C., he signed for Spurs in 1960, and was one of 17 players used by the club in the Double winning side of 1960–61. Before being involved in the swap with Southampton for Martin Chivers in 1968. Saul was valued at £45,000 as makeweight in a deal worth £125,000. Saul scored in the 1967 FA Cup Final against Chelsea. Saul joined Queens Park Rangers in 1970 and played 43 league games scoring 4 goals before moving to Millwall in 1972.

When Saul was sent off against Burnley at Turf Moor on 4 December 1965, he was the first Spurs' player to be sent off in a League match since 27 October 1968.

Later life

After quitting football, Saul worked as a builder in Essex.

Honours

Tottenham Hotspur

References

  1. "Frank Saul". Barry Hugman's Footballers.
  2. The Double squad Retrieved 28 August 2008
  3. Maxwell, Ian. "Football Trivia". www.soccerhistory.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
  4. Where are they now ? Retrieved 29 August 2008
  5. Vernon, Leslie; Rollin, Jack (1977). Rothmans Football Yearbook 1977–78. London: Brickfield Publications Ltd. p. 491. ISBN 0354 09018 6.
  6. "1967/68 Charity Shield". footballsite.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2020.


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