Ken Todd

About

Kenneth Todd (born 24 August 1957) is an English former footballer who scored 11 goals in 52 games in the English Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Port Vale, and Portsmouth in the late 1970s. Despite being bought for £37,000 by Vale and £20,000 by “Pompey”, he dropped into the Southern League with Fareham Town and Waterlooville.

Todd began his career at Sammy Chung’s Wolverhampton Wanderers, having been scouted by Joe Mycock, who lived opposite his school in Staindrop. He joined the club as an apprentice on his 15th birthday after a trial in the summer of 1972, despite advances from Middlesbrough and Birmingham City, as he was impressed by the club providing him with tickets for the 1972 UEFA Cup final against Tottenham Hotspur. He was a member of the 1976 FA Youth Cup side that were beaten 5–0 on aggregate in the final by Black Country derby rivals West Bromwich Albion. He made his debut for the senior team on 6 November 1976, in a 3–1 victory over Millwall at Molineux. He went on to make a further four appearances, scoring one goal against Hereford United, as Wolves won promotion as champions of the Second Division in 1976–77…