Bill Slater obituary

A key player in the great 1950s Wolverhampton Wanderers side that won three league titles and an FA Cup

The footballer Bill Slater, who has died aged 91, was a key member of the great Wolverhampton Wanderers side of the mid-to-late 1950s that won three league titles and then an FA Cup. He also played with distinction for England in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden.

A Wolves player for more than a decade, from 1952 until 1963, Slater made more than 300 appearances for the club, first as an inside-forward and latterly as a cool and authoritative centre-half, winning the First Division title in 1954, 1958 and 1959 and, as skipper, the FA Cup against Blackburn Rovers in 1960, when he was voted the football writers’ footballer of the year.

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