William Norman McCourt Uprichard (20 April 1928 – 31 January 2011[2]) was a football player for Arsenal, Portsmouth, Swindon Town and Northern Ireland.
[3] Uprichard was born in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, and as a teenager played both soccer and Gaelic football.
He never played an Arsenal first-team game, with Ted Platt and George Swindin being higher in the pecking order.
He played in the 1958 World Cup Finals in Sweden alongside Billy Bingham, Jimmy McIlroy and Danny Blanchflower.
Despite sustaining a broken hand and an ankle injury, he kept the Czechoslovakia attack at bay in a play-off win which secured Northern Ireland a quarter-final berth.