Trevor Roberts | |
Birth Date: | 25 February 1942 |
Birth Place: | Caernarfon, Wales |
Death Date: | June 1972 (aged 30) |
Death Place: | Cambridge, England |
Position: | Goalkeeper |
Youthclubs1: | Liverpool University |
Years1: | 1963–1965 |
Clubs1: | Liverpool |
Caps1: | 0 |
Goals1: | 0 |
Years2: | 1965–1970 |
Clubs2: | Southend United |
Caps2: | 171 |
Goals2: | 0 |
Years3: | 1970–1972 |
Clubs3: | Cambridge United |
Caps3: | 36 |
Goals3: | 0 |
Totalcaps: | 207 |
Totalgoals: | 0 |
Trevor Roberts (25 February 1942 – June 1972) was a Welsh professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He made a total of 207 appearances in the Football League for Southend United and Cambridge United before dying of a brain tumour at the age of 30.
Roberts began his career as a youth player at Liverpool, combining his playing there with studying for a degree in geography at Liverpool University,[1] He then played in the Football League for Southend United and Cambridge United between 1965 and 1972, making 207 appearances.[2]
In 1968 Roberts recovered from lung cancer.[1] In February 1972 he was admitted to hospital with a brain tumour and died in June 1972 in a nursing home, at the age of 30.[3] [4]