Phil Parkes (footballer, born 1950)
Phil Parkes at the Boleyn Ground 11 September 2010
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Philip Benjamin Neil Frederick Parkes | ||
| Date of birth | 8 August 1950 | ||
| Place of birth | Sedgley, England | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1968–1970 | Walsall | 52 | (0) |
| 1970–1979 | Queens Park Rangers | 344 | (0) |
| 1979–1990 | West Ham United | 344 | (0) |
| 1990–1991 | Ipswich Town | 3 | (0) |
| Total | 743 | (0) | |
| National team | |||
| 1972–1975 | England U23 | 6 | (0) |
| 1974 | England | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Philip Benjamin Neil Frederick Parkes (born 8 August 1950, Sedgley, Staffordshire, England) is a former football goalkeeper.
He was a pupil at Dormston School from September 1961 to December 1965.
Beginning his football career at Walsall, turning professional in 1968, he made over 50 appearances in the Black Country before moving to London, signing for Queens Park Rangers for £15,000 in June 1970. His QPR debut was on Saturday 22 August 1970 in a 3–1 defeat at home to Leicester City.
Parkes was part of the QPR team that reached the last eight of the FA Cup in 1974 and were League runners-up to Liverpool in 1976. Many observers consider that side, managed by Dave Sexton, the finest team never to have won the League. His club career at QPR spanned 344 league appearances (406 in all competitions). He gained his only England cap during this period, against Portugal in 1974.
Parkes was sold to West Ham United in 1979 for £565,000, a world record for a goalkeeper at the time. It is reported that Sexton, who by then was manager of Manchester United, put in six bids for the player but saw them all turned down. It was only the half-million-pound bid from West Ham United that QPR chairman Jim Gregory could not resist. Upon John Lyall's signing of Parkes it was thought that he was a huge risk due to the severity of the condition of his knees but his signing was to pay off as Parkes was to remain first choice keeper for the next ten years. Despite this longevity, however, he only ever gained one piece of silverware, when West Ham beat Arsenal 1–0 to win the 1980 FA Cup Final.
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