Steve Wright

Life and career Wright was born in Leicester in 1893. He played representative football for Leicester Schools, alongside future Bolton team-mate and Scotland international Alex Donaldson. During the First World War, Wright served with the Leicestershire Regiment and the Royal Army Medical Corps.

After the war, amid interest from "several first-class clubs", Wright signed for Bolton Wanderers of the Football League First Division. He spent something over two seasons with the club, as backup for Jimmy Seddon, before moving on to Norwich City of the Third Division South in July 1922 for a £750 fee. Until then he had played as a centre half,

After four years with Dundalk, Wright went back to England to take up the post of trainer to Lincoln City Lincoln finished in the top four of the Third Division North three times in the four seasons that Wright trained them, and according to the Lincolnshire Echo, he "proved a popular and efficient trainer, and tributes to the fit condition of the players have been paid on many of the grounds on which City have appeared." He joined Ipswich Town, newly elected to the Football League, as trainer in July 1938, but left them again soon afterwards.

The following year, Wright was recommended by Stanley Rous, secretary of the Football Association, to their Norwegian counterparts for a three-month appointment as trainer-coach of SK Strong's football department and technical adviser to other teams in Oslo and elsewhere.

Wright's son, Geoff, played league football for Walsall in the 1950s.

Wright died in his native Leicester in 1959 at the age of 66.