Gwynfor Jones (20 March 1935 – 13 November 2020) was a Welsh

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, who played in the Football League for

Wolverhampton Wanderers Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (), commonly known as Wolves, is a professional football club based in Wolverhampton, England, which compete in the . The club has played at Molineux Stadium since moving from Dudley Road in 1889. The club's ...

and

Bristol Rovers Bristol Rovers Football Club are a professional football club in Bristol, England. They compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. They play home matches at the Memorial Stadium in Horfield, they have been ...

Career

Jones began his playing career at

Caernarfon Town Caernarfon Town Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl Droed Tref Caernarfon) is a semi-professional Welsh football club based in Caernarfon, Gwynedd. The club is nicknamed "the Canaries" because of its yellow and green strip, a nickname that dates from ...

, before joining

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in 1955. He made his Wolves debut on 17 December 1955 in a 3–2 win over Black Country rivals

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. He never found many opportunities for first team football at Molineux though, and managed just 21 appearances over seven years. He did however appear during Wolves' league championship-winning seasons of

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and

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, and played in their 1959 Charity Shield victory. He joined

in 1962, where he went on to play over 150 league games over his four years there. He subsequently returned to his native Wales with

Porthmadog Porthmadog (; ), originally Portmadoc until 1974 and locally as "Port", is a Welsh coastal town and community in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd and the historic county of Caernarfonshire. It lies east of Criccieth, south-west of Blaenau Ff ...

Death

He spent his later years as a resident of Bryn Seiont Newydd Care Home in Caernarfon. He was suffering from dementia when he died, aged 85. He is buried with his late wife, Margaretta, in the graveyard of St Twrog’s Church in the village of Llandwrog where he was born.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Gwyn 1935 births 2020 deaths Sportspeople from Gwynedd Welsh men's footballers English Football League players Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players Bristol Rovers F.C. players Caernarfon Town F.C. players Porthmadog F.C. players Men's association football defenders People from Llandwrog