Lew Woodroffe

DOB: 29th October 1921

Position: Winger

Season of first appearance: 1953/54

Season of last appearance: 1953/54

Full Appearances: 14

Substitute: 0

Goals: 2

Also played for:

Manchester City (9,1), Clapton Orient (0), Watford (64,6) Hastings United and Canterbury City.

Player Profile:

Fast left winger born in Portsmouth who started his career with Manchester City but didn't feature in their first-team before the outbreak of World War II.

Lew featured twice as a guest player for Clapton Orient during the 1941/42 wartime season and when hostilities ceased he broke into Manchester City's senior side early in the 1946/47 campaign.

Lew made his City debut in a 3-1 win at Millwall in Division 2 on 14.9.46 watched by a crowd of 24,182 and his team-mates that day included famous goalkeeper Frank Swift. Lew went on to make a total of nine first-team appearances for City and scored once before leaving Maine Road at the end of the 1946/47 season.

In August 1947 he signed for Watford and Lew made his debut for the Hornets in a 3-2 home defeat against Brighton in Division 3 (South) on 23.8.47. He went on to make a total of 64 senior appearances for Watford and scored six times before being released by the club at the end of the 1950/51 campaign.

Lew then dropped into non-league football to join Hastings and he later had a spell with Canterbury before joining Margate in August 1953.

During the 1953/54 season Lew played 14 times and scored twice, one of his goals came on his debut - a 5-2 win at Bexleyheath & Welling on 31.10.53. He was a regular for several months but also spent a large portion of the campaign in the reserves.

Lew also spent the 1954/55 season playing exclusively for Margate's reserves, although not on a regular basis.

He left the club in March 1955 to take up a job with the Post Office in London.

Lew died aged 93 in 2015 and he had been living in Ferring, West Sussex.