[1] He started out with his hometown club Middlesbrough and made 55 league appearances for them before a transfer to Chelsea in September 1967.
[3] He later played for Sunderland and Norwich City,[1] and whilst at Norwich he played for the Baltimore Comets of the North American Soccer League in the 1974 and 1975 NASL summer seasons, making a total of 40 appearances.
[2] While at Norwich, he was a member of the team that reached the final of the League Cup in 1973.
[5] In 1992, it was revealed that South Africa national team manager Jeff Butler had been sacked from his post for passing off Geoffrey Butler's playing career as his own.
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