Bill Luckett

Coaching career After retiring from playing at the age of 34, Luckett joined Cowes Sports as a player-coach, remaining with the Isle of Wight club up to the start of World War II. During the war, he joined the Royal Air Force where he became a Physical Training instructor at RAF Ford. Whilst at Ford, he spotted the potential of Eric Day and recommended him to the Saints.

After the war, Luckett returned to The Dell, spending seven years as the trainer for the reserve and "A" teams. He then had a brief spell, from September 1954 to January 1955 as manager at Andover.

He was the landlord of the Salisbury Arms at Christchurch before the war, and after the war was the landlord of the Juniper Berry in Southampton. He continued to play Sunday football into his 60s, turning out for the Ordnance Survey in 1964.

In his retirement, Luckett lived in Shirley, Southampton where he died in July 1985.