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Billy Neale
Personal information
Full name	William Elwood Neale
Date of birth	20 May 1933
Place of birth	Wallsend, England
Date of death	October 2001 (aged 68)
Place of death	North Tyneside, England
Position(s)	Wing half
Senior career*
Years	Team
1950–195?	Sunderland
195?–1957	North Shields
1957–1958	Darlington
	North Shields
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

William Elwood Neale (20 May 1933 – October 2001) was an English footballer who played as a wing half in the Football League for Darlington, and in non-league football for North Shields. He was on the books of Sunderland without playing for their first team.^[1]^[2] He did contribute to the club's "A" team winning the 1950–51 Wearside League title and two other trophies. According to the Sunderland Echo, "right half Neale, although on the small side, used both feet, distributed the ball well, and was a bundle of energy all the way through" the final of the Monkwearmouth Charity Cup.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Billy Neale". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
^ "Darlington: 1946/47–1988/89 & 1990/91–2009/10". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
^ "Sunderland 'A' team's third trophy". Sunderland Echo. 8 May 1951. p. 9 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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