Rodney Slack
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Rodney Slack | ||
| Date of birth | 11 April 1940 | ||
| Place of birth | Farcet, Cambridgeshire | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1958-1960 | Leicester City | ||
| 1960–1962 | Queens Park Rangers | ||
| 1962-1970 | Cambridge United | ||
| 1962 | → Corby Town (loan) | ||
| 1963 | → Brentwood Town (loan) | ||
| 1970-1973 | Bury Town F.C. | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Rodney Slack (born 1940)[1][2] is an ex-professional goalkeeper who played for Cambridge United from the 1962 - 70. He won supporters footballer of the year 4 times at the abbey, 1962–63, 1964–65, 1965–66 and 1967-68. He never received his fourth crown despite being voted by the supporters and was subsequently sacked after he helped them win promotion to the football league. He is now regarded as the best goalkeeper to wear the colours of 'Black and Amber' and his a legend at the club.
Rodney Slack, United's best and most popular goalkeeper of their first non-League era, was born in 1940. He was on the short side for a keeper, just under 5'10', but his athleticism, bravery and unusually long arms and huge hands more than compensated, and he was voted Supporters' Player of the Year four times in the 1960s. His speciality was saving penalties, one season stopping seven out of nine faced. When United gained admittance to the Football League in 1970, however, manager Bill Leivers released him as he considered he would not quite be up to standard.[3] Bizarrely Slack found out about his sacking by accidentally knocking that days paper out a letter box, picked it up and on the back page was, "SLACK SACKED!" before he'd even been told by Cambridge United. Rodney went on to become president of the Cambs Colts.
Club career
Leicester City
Understudy to Gordon Banks
Queens Park Rangers
He was there for 1 and a half years