Geoffrey "Geoff" Sleight (born 20 June 1943 in

Barnsley Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has ...

, England) is an Australian former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a winger. He joined

Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers Football Club () is a professional football club based in Horwich, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in . The club played at Burnden Park for 102 years from 1895 after moving from their original home at Pike's ...

after leaving school, and made his debut against

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in September 1961. Sleight made just two appearances for the first-team before being released. He went on to play for

Wigan Athletic Wigan Athletic Football Club () is an English professional association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The team competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1932, ...

, Buxton and

Mossley Mossley (/ˈmɒzli/) is a town and civil parish in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, in the upper Tame Valley and the foothills of the Pennines, southeast of Oldham and east of Manchester. The historic counties of Lancashire, Cheshire ...

, where he briefly acted as caretaker manager in November and December 1976, winning four of his five matches in charge.Managers
Mossley A.F.C. After

Howard Wilkinson Howard Wilkinson (born 13 November 1943) is an English former footballer and manager. Despite having a low-profile playing career, Wilkinson embarked on a successful managerial career. He won the First Division championship in 1992 with Leeds ...

was appointed as permanent manager, he left to join

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, before returning to Mossley in 1978. He soon moved onto become player-manager at Frickley Athletic, and guided the team to promotion to the Football Conference in 1980. After retiring, Sleight later became chief scout for

at Leeds United between 1993 and 1996. Sleight also represented the

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on two occasions, including an appearance in their first ever World Cup qualifying game against

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. North Korea won the match 6–1.

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