Spencer Kettley

Spencer Kettley

Welshman Spencer was stationed at Bletchley and was turning out for Newbury Town as the war drew to a close and was picked up by Luton in August 1944 as the club attempted to rebuild.

Despite being regarded as a wing-half, it was at inside-forward that Spencer made his only League appearance for the Hatters in a 1-2 home defeat at the hands of Leicester in October 1946.

Spencer filled a variety of positions for the reserve side over that 1946/47 campaign but ‘did not seem to have recovered completely from (war) service in the tropics.’ Spencer proved everyone wrong though by continuing to play football at non-League and parks level until he was 54!

After a career in the shoe trade, Spencer lived in retirement in Desborough until his death in 2010.