Peter Leonard Bullock (born 17 November 1941) is an English former

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who played as an

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. He scored 53 goals in 199 appearances in

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playing for

Stoke City Stoke City Football Club is a professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, which competes in the . Founded as Stoke Ramblers in 1863, it changed its name to Stoke in 1878 and then to Stoke City in 1925 after Stoke ...

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Southend United Southend United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. As of the 2022–23 season, the team competes in the National League, the fifth tier of English football. Southend are known as ...

Colchester United Colchester United Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Colchester, Essex, England. The team competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1937, the club spent its earl ...

Exeter City Exeter City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Exeter, Devon, England. The team play in , the third tier of the English football league system. Known as "the Grecians", the origin of their nickname is subject to ...

and

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Career

Bullock was born in

Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of . In 2019, the city had an estimated population of 256,375. It is the largest settlement ...

and began his career with

. He made his debut for Stoke in a 4–1 defeat away at Swansea Town on 19 April 1958 at the age of 16 years and 163 days becoming the club's youngest player, he also scored Stoke's goal thus becoming youngest goalscorer. He scored five goals in 13 appearances in 1958–59 but injury kept him out of the entire 1959–60 season. He returned to the side in 1960–61 under new manager

Tony Waddington Anthony Waddington (9 November 1924 – 21 January 1994) was an English football manager at both Crewe Alexandra and Stoke City. Waddington had a seven-year playing career with Crewe Alexandra before becoming a coach at Stoke City. He progre ...

playing in 19 matches scoring five goals. He scored five goals again in 1961–62 and was sold to First Division

for a fee of £10,000. He was never able to live up to his potential at Birmingham and after making 28 appearances in four years he left for

. Bullock did not stay long at

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quickly moving to local rivals

with whom he gained promotion from the Fourth Division in 1965–66. He scored 15 goals in 1966–67 as the "U's" finished in 13th position, but relegation was suffered in 1967–68 and Bullock joined

in August 1968. He spent just three months at Exeter before returning to

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

and played for non-league Stafford Rangers. He made a short return to professional football playing seven matches for

before retiring.

Personal life

Bullock comes from a footballing family. His elder brother Brian was an amateur with

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and Stoke City, and younger brother

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had a long playing career before going into management. His son

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played for

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while Mickey Bullock was manager there.

Career statistics

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bullock, Peter 1941 births Living people Footballers from Stoke-on-Trent English men's footballers Men's association football forwards Stoke City F.C. players Birmingham City F.C. players Southend United F.C. players Colchester United F.C. players Exeter City F.C. players Stafford Rangers F.C. players Walsall F.C. players English Football League players