Ray Garbutt

Life and career Garbutt was born in 1925 in Middlesbrough. After the war he played football for South Bank East End and was on Middlesbrough's books as an amateur He was unable to break through to City's first team, and at the end of the season joined Spennymoor United of the North Eastern League.

He signed for Watford of the Third Division South in 1950, and made his Football League debut on 30 August in a 1–0 defeat away to Reading. In ten months with the club, he scored 8 goals from 23 appearances before being swapped for Brighton & Hove Albion's centre forward Cyril Thompson. He fell out with the club over money, and left at the end of the season having played only eight times; Workington retained his registration for several years.

After football, Garbutt worked in the licensed trade and as a fitter for GEC. A keen golfer, he won the County Durham Seniors Championship and qualified for the Senior Open Championship in 1990. Garbutt died in Middlestone Moor, County Durham, in 1994 at the age of 69.