Rodger Wylde was born on 8 March 1954 and is an English former professional footballer who played for Sheffield Wednesday, Oldham Athletic, Sporting CP, Sunderland, Barnsley and Stockport County.
12 Facts About Rodger Wylde
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Rodger Wylde's career lasted from 1972 to 1989, during which time he played 370 English league games, scoring 139 goals.
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Roger Rodger Wylde joined Sheffield Wednesday as an apprentice straight from school in July 1971 and made his debut for the club on 18 November 1972 against Middlesbrough, he scored his first goal two weeks later on 2 December against Millwall.
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Rodger Wylde continued to score goals regularly over the following two seasons and became a crowd favourite with Wednesday supporters who gave him the nickname "Oscar".
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Rodger Wylde was sold by manager Jack Charlton midway through that season, with Wylde playing his final game on 16 February 1980 and moving to Oldham Athletic as a replacement for Vic Halom.
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Rodger Wylde continued his good goalscoring form at Oldham finishing top scorer in each of his three full seasons there, in total scoring 51 league goals in 113 appearances.
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Rodger Wylde was very much a fringe player with Sporting and his chances in the first team were limited.
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Rodger Wylde spent three seasons at Barnsley playing 52 league games scoring 19 goals.
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Rodger Wylde has now been physio at Stockport for 24 years, an unusually long time, serving under eleven different managers to date.
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Rodger Wylde left Stockport to become the 'Head of Sports Science and Medicine' at Chesterfield on 8 July 2014, replacing Jamie Hewitt.
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In February 2022, Rodger Wylde became Physio at EFL Championship club Peterborough United.
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Rodger Wylde was always a big music fan especially of progressive rock.