Bill Asprey

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Bill Asprey
Personnel
Surname William Asprey
birthday September 11, 1936
place of birth WolverhamptonEngland
position Defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1953-1966 Stoke City 304 (23)
1966-1967 Oldham Athletic 83 0(3)
1967-1968 Port Vale 31 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1979-1980 Oxford United
1984-1985 Stoke City
1 Only league games are given.

William "Bill" Asprey (born September 11, 1936 in Wolverhampton ) is an English football player and coach. Asprey was born in Wolverhampton in 1936 . In his career he played 304 games for Stoke City between 1953/54 and 1965/66 . With whom he won the Second Division in 1963 and reached the final in the League Cup a year later . Other stations as a player were Oldham Athletic and Port Vale . After training as a coach, he began working as a coach in Southern Rhodesia and on the Coventry City staff . His first "real" head coach station was Oxford United . Asprey was presented in July 1979, but was released at Christmas due to lack of success. Eventually he returned to Stoke City where he initially acted as assistant coach to Richie Barker and finally replaced him in 1984. Due to health problems, however, he resigned from office after just one season.