Billy Green (footballer, born 1927)


William Green was an English footballer, who played as a defender.

Career

Green came up through the Wolverhampton Wanderers youth team, however did not make a senior appearance with the club. He would move to Walsall in 1949.
At Walsall, however, he would secure a first team spot, being an ever-present in two consecutive seasons for the club and making a total of 180 appearances.
In 1954 he would move to Wrexham spending three years at the club. Whilst there, in a match with Gateshead on 22 December 1956, where, during an altercation with Gateshead forward Bill Brown, he was punched unconscious by Brown. Green did not remember what had happened in a post-match interview.
He left Wrexham in 1957, going on to play for Wellington Town, Caernarfon Town and Pwllheli.
Green died in 1996.