Ken Coote
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kenneth Alexander Coote | ||
| Date of birth | 19 May 1928 | ||
| Place of birth | Paddington, England | ||
| Date of death | 2 August 2003 (aged 75) | ||
| Place of death | Isleworth, England | ||
| Playing position | Full back, utility player | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Alperton Old Boys | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Wembley | |||
| 1949–1964 | Brentford | 514 | (14) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Kenneth Alexander "Ken" Coote (19 May 1928 – 2 August 2003) was an English football full back and utility player. He is best known for his 14 years as a player at Brentford, for whom he tops the all-time appearances list with 559 and was also captain of the club. In 2013, Coote placed second in a Football League 125th Anniversary poll of Brentford's best ever captains.
Coote began his career as a youth at Alperton Old Boys, a team managed by the father of future England manager Ron Greenwood. He moved on to join Middlesex Senior League side Wembley as an amateur and impressed enough to spend two weeks on trial at Division One side Burnley in the spring of 1949.
Ron Greenwood, then playing for Division Two side Brentford, knew of Coote and recommended to manager Jackie Gibbons that Brentford sign him. Coote duly signed for the Bees and made his debut for the club in a 4–1 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur at Griffin Park on the opening day of the 1949–50 season. He began his Brentford career as an inside left and scored his first goal for the club after 20 seconds of an eventual 4–1 defeat to Blackburn Rovers in September 1949. Coote's Brentford career failed to ignite until player-manager Tommy Lawton selected him as left half for a match versus Notts County in March 1953. Coote gave a strong performance in a 5–0 victory which eased the club's fears of relegation to Division Three.
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