Dave Wagstaffe

He was notably the first player to be shown a red card in the English Football League, sent off for Blackburn during a 1–0 defeat against Leyton Orient on 2 October 1976.

During his time in the United States, Wagstaffe was visited by boyhood friend Davy Jones, lead singer of The Monkees who he had played street football with as a boy.

Jack Kent Cooke, a cable television entrepreneur and owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team who had bought the LA Wolves franchise for $250,000, asked Wagstaffe to move to the United States and join his potential business as potential face of American soccer, but after returning to Wolverhampton, Wagstaffe decided against pursuing the opportunity.

[7][8] Whilst at Blackburn Rovers on 2 October 1976, Wagstaffe was the first player in English football to receive a red card.

Wagstaffe suffered a heart attack in April 2013,[14] and died at his home in Wolverhampton on 6 August 2013 after a short illness, aged 70.