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Geoff Wright

English footballer

Geoffrey Derrick Wright (1 March 1930, 2011) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Walsall. He was on the books of Sheffield Wednesday, Aston Villa and Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic without playing league football for any of them, and also appeared for Rugby Town, Nuneaton Borough and Hinckley Athletic.

His father, Steve Wright, played league football for Bolton Wanderers, Norwich City and Brighton & Hove Albion in the 1920s. Wright died in Leicester in 2011, at the age of 81.

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