Keith Webber
{{short description|Welsh footballer}}
{{distinguish|Keith Weber}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2012}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Keith Webber
| image =
| fullname = Keith James Webber
| birth_date = {{birth date|1943|1|5|df=y}}
| birth_place = Cardiff, Wales
| death_date = {{death date and age|1983|9|26|1943|1|5|df=y}}
| death_place = Marford, Wrexham, Wales
| position = Forward
| years1 = 1959–1960
| years2 = 1960–1963
| years3 = 1963–1964
| years4 = 1964–1966
| years5 = 1966–1969
| years6 = 1969–1971
| years7 = 1971–1972
| years8 = 1972–?
| years9 = ?–1973
| years10 = 1973–1974
| years11 = 1974–?
| clubs1 = Barry Town
| clubs2 = Everton
| clubs3 = Brighton & Hove Albion
| clubs4 = Wrexham
| clubs5 = Doncaster Rovers
| clubs6 = Chester
| clubs7 = Stockport County
| clubs8 = Morecambe
| clubs9 = Northwich Victoria
| clubs10 = Oswestry Town
| clubs11 = Rhyl
| caps1 = 23
| caps2 = 4
| caps3 = 35
| caps4 = 73
| caps5 = 65
| caps6 = 74
| caps7 = 40
| goals1 = 0
| goals2 = 0
| goals3 = 14
| goals4 = 33
| goals5 = 18
| goals6 = 14
| goals7 = 7
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}}Keith Webber (5 January 1943 – 26 September 1983) was a Welsh footballer.
Playing career
Webber began his playing days with Barry Town before signing for Everton as a 17-year-old in 1960.{{cite book | first=Gareth M|last= Davies|last2= Jones|first2= Peter | title=The Racecourse Robins | year=1999|page=324|publisher=Davies and Jones|isbn=0-9524950-1-5}} He scored on his first-team debut for the Goodison Park club in a Football League Cup tie against Walsall, but he was to make just four appearances in The Football League for them before moving to Brighton & Hove Albion in April 1963 in a £9,000 deal.
After a year at Brighton and then a two-year stint at Wrexham, Webber moved to Doncaster Rovers in June 1966 before joining Chester in June 1969. In his two-year spell at Sealand Road, Webber helped Chester reach the 1970 Welsh Cup final before losing to Cardiff City, a fate he had also suffered when playing for Wrexham five years earlier.
Webber ended his professional career with Stockport County in 1971–72 before going on to play in Non-League football for Morecambe, Northwich Victoria, Oswestry Town and Rhyl.
Work and Death
After finishing his professional playing career, Webber became an insurance salesman and then the licensee of the Grosvenor Arms pub in Handbridge, Chester and later the White Lion in Buckley. Unfortunately, ill health left to him leaving the licensed trade and he took up a position with a finance company.
Webber died aged just 40 from a heart attack at his home in Marford, Wrexham while watching television on 26 September 1983.{{cite web|url= http://cards.littleoak.com.au/rip_notices/rip_1980.html|title= Death Notices 1983|publisher = Nigel's Webspace| accessdate=2009-05-29}}
References
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Category:Footballers from Cardiff
Category:Welsh men's footballers
Category:English Football League players
Category:Men's association football forwards
Category:Barry Town United F.C. players
Category:Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players
Category:Wrexham A.F.C. players
Category:Doncaster Rovers F.C. players
Category:Chester City F.C. players
Category:Stockport County F.C. players
Category:Morecambe F.C. players
Category:Northwich Victoria F.C. players