Keith Robert Newton was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 international football

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er who played as a defender

Defender (association football)

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 in The Football League

The Football League

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 in the 1960s and 1970s.

Newton was born 1941 in Manchester

Manchester

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. He started his career with Blackburn Rovers in the 1960-61 season and he went on to play over 300 League games for them before transferring to Everton

Everton F.C.

Everton Football Club are an English professional association football club from the city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football...

 in 1969-70.

He made 12 appearances for Everton in the latter half of the 1969-70 season, in which Everton won the championship

Football League First Division

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Newton moved to Burnley

Burnley F.C.

Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...

 for the 1972-73 season, making his league debut on 12 August 1972 against Carlisle United. He made a total of 209 league appearances for Burnley, his last coming in the 1977-78 season.

Newton won his first cap

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 for England in February 1966. He played 27 times for England until 1970 including three matches at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico

Mexico

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He died at the age of 56 after a long battle with lung cancer.