Peter Hart (footballer)

{{short description|English footballer}}

{{For|other people named Peter Hart|Peter Hart (disambiguation)}}

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{{Infobox football biography

| name = Peter Hart

| image =

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| fullname = Peter Osborne Hart

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|8|14|df=y}}

| birth_place = Mexborough, England

| death_date =

| height = 5 ft 11 in{{cite book |title=Rothmans Football Yearbook 1987–88 |editor-first=Peter |editor-last=Dunk |publisher=Queen Anne Press |location=London |date=1987 |page=376 |isbn=978-0-356-14354-5}}

| position = Defender

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Huddersfield Town

| years1 = 1974–1980 | clubs1 = Huddersfield Town | caps1 = 210 | goals1 = 7

| years2 = 1980–1990 | clubs2 = Walsall | caps2 = 390 | goals2 = 12

| totalcaps = 600

| totalgoals = 19

}}

Peter Osborne Hart (born 14 August 1957) is an English former footballer who played mainly as a defender. He made 600 appearances in the Football League playing for Huddersfield Town and Walsall.{{cite web |url=http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player3/peterhart.html |title=Peter Hart |work=UK A–Z Transfers |publisher=Neil Brown |accessdate=18 October 2009}}

Hart holds the record for the youngest debutant for Huddersfield Town, having made his debut aged 16 years and 229 days against Southend United in 1974.{{cite web |url=http://www.football-league.co.uk/features/where-are-they-now-peter-hart-20090108_2249035_1504992 |title=Where Are They Now: Peter Hart |publisher=The Football League |date=8 January 2009 |accessdate=17 October 2009}} He played for Huddersfield in the final of the 1974 FA Youth Cup, and captained the club to the Fourth Division title in 1980. He then moved to Walsall, helped them reach the semi-final of the 1983–84 Football League Cup, and captained the side to promotion to the Second Division via the play-offs in 1988. The final game at Walsall's Fellows Park ground was Hart's testimonial match against West Bromwich Albion.{{cite web |url=http://www.saddlers.co.uk/page/PastGrounds/0,,10428,00.html |title=Former Grounds |publisher=Walsall F.C |accessdate=17 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312083509/http://www.saddlers.co.uk/page/PastGrounds/0%2C%2C10428%2C00.html |archivedate=12 March 2009 |df=dmy-all }} After retiring from football he was ordained as a minister of the Church of England and became vicar of St Luke's Church in Cannock.{{cite web |url=http://www.lichfield.anglican.org/news&newsID=303 |title=Football urged to develop "fair trade" ethics |date=4 June 2006 |publisher=Diocese of Lichfield |accessdate=17 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716060446/http://www.lichfield.anglican.org/news%26newsID%3D303 |archivedate=16 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }} In November 2017 he became vicar of St John the Baptist church in Armitage.{{Cite web|url=https://brateamministry.org/meet-the-team|title=Meet the Team|publisher=Brereton, Rugeley & Armitage Team Ministry|accessdate=14 January 2019}}