Peter Rutley

DOB: 19th May 1946

Position: Midfielder

Season of first appearance: 1969/70

Season of last appearance: 1969/70

Full Appearances: 65

Substitute: 2

Goals: 5

Also played for:

Exeter City (18,0), Leicester City (0), Wimbledon, Poole Town.

Player Profile:

Versatile Poole-born player who began his career with Exeter in 1963 before moving on to Leicester in August 1965.

In October 1965, Leicester loaned Peter to Wimbledon for a month and he made two appearances there before returning to Filbert Street.

Peter then had two spells on loan at Poole during the 1967/68 and 1968/69 seasons and scored twice for them against Margate during 1968/69 as a makeshift striker.

In the summer of 1969, Peter joined Margate and made his debut playing as a midfielder in a 3-3 draw at Hereford on 9.8.69, the opening day of the 1969/70 Southern League campaign. Peter went on to make a total of 67 appearances (two as sub) during the season, mostly in midfield but sometimes as a centre-back. The local press described him as being "a quiet unassuming type of player" and "stout-hearted". On 15.11.69, Peter was in the Margate side that were thrashed 7-2 by visitors Aldershot in the FA Cup 1st Round.

He scored five goals during the season and several of them were spectacular efforts. Peter fired home a rasping volley from the edge of the penalty area in a 3-1 win over Canterbury on 1.12.69, a 35-yarder during a 5-1 win over Ramsgate on 2.2.70 and then struck from 25 yards in a 6-2 win at home to Ashford on 16.3.70.

Prior to the start of the 1970/71 campaign, Peter played in a couple of Margate's friendlies and he also appeared in a couple of early season reserve team games. However, in August 1970 he left the club having had his contract cancelled by mutual consent and returned home to Somerset.

By 1978, he was living in Poole once again and Peter was still there in 2012.