Ken Wagstaff

Career Wagstaff was born in Langwith, Nottinghamshire. he was signed by Mansfield Town F.C's then-manager Raich Carter after playing in Mansfield's youth league. Carter put him in the first team squad and he made his league debut on 30 August 1960. In his first game with Mansfield's first squad, the team won, scoring 2–1 over Rochdale.

Wagstaff scored 31 goals in the 1965–66 promotion season and went on to score 173 goals for Hull City in 378 appearances. In the 1970s, Wagstaff joined the Sunshine George Cross Football Club in Melbourne Australia as a player-coach. After a career-ending knee injury, Wagstaff spent a short period on the club's coaching staff.

Author John Maffin wrote a biography about Wagstaff, Waggy: The Ken Wagstaff Story. Wagstaff co-operated with the author and the book was published in 2002 with a second edition published in 2004.

In 2005, as part of Hull City's club centenary celebrations, Wagstaff was voted by supporters as the "best Hull City player of all time".

After retiring from his football career, Wagstaff ran The Golden Ball pub (since demolished) and then bought The Marlborough club, affectionately known as "Waggies". He has since sold the club and retired, In 2006, he participated in the Sport Relief Mile in Hull to raise money for marginalised people, and in 2007, he took part in a charity golf tournament at Bridlington Belvedere Golf Club.

Wagstaff's wife Eileen died from breast cancer in August 2007. In February 2008, Wagstaff and his family raised money to start a lifestyle centre in her memory at the Princess Royal Hospital in Saltshouse Road, east Hull. The centre would provide breast cancer patients with diet and lifestyle advice.

After a brief stint during 2009 running the Roos Arms, a village pub in Roos, East Riding of Yorkshire he has since completely retired to spend more time with his family and now lives in Hull.

Honours Hull City Third Division: 1965–66 Watney Cup runner-up: 1973