William Thompson (5 January 1940 – 30 September 2011) was an English footballer who made 118 appearances in the Football League playing as a centre half for Newcastle United, Rotherham United and Darlington in the 1960s.
[2] He began his football career as a junior with Newcastle United, and made his first-team debut on 5 November 1960 in a 4–2 defeat away to Chelsea in the First Division.
Over a ten-year career with Newcastle disrupted by injury, he made 90 appearances in all competitions and scored once, in a 3–2 First Division defeat at Sheffield United in November 1965.
In January 1968, Thompson signed for Fourth Division club Darlington,[5] for whom he scored five goals from 30 league appearances over two-and-a-half seasons, after which he retired from football.
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