{{short description|Welsh footballer}} {{distinguish|Keith Weber}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Use British English|date=December 2012}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Keith Webber | image = | fullname = Keith James Webber | height = 5 ft 9+1/2 in<ref name="robins"/> | birth_date = {{birth date|1943|1|5|df=y}} | birth_place = Cardiff, Wales | death_date = {{death date and age|1983|9|26|1943|1|5|df=y}} | death_place = Marford, Wrexham, Wales | position = Forward | years1 = 1959–1960 | years2 = 1960–1963 | years3 = 1963–1964 | years4 = 1964–1966 | years5 = 1966–1969 | years6 = 1969–1971 | years7 = 1971–1972 | years8 = 1972–? | years9 = ?–1973 | years10 = 1973–1974 | years11 = 1974–? | clubs1 = Barry Town | clubs2 = Everton | clubs3 = Brighton & Hove Albion | clubs4 = Wrexham | clubs5 = Doncaster Rovers | clubs6 = Chester | clubs7 = Stockport County | clubs8 = Morecambe | clubs9 = Northwich Victoria | clubs10 = Oswestry Town | clubs11 = Rhyl | caps1 = 23 | caps2 = 4 | caps3 = 35 | caps4 = 73 | caps5 = 65 | caps6 = 74 | caps7 = 40 | goals1 = 0 | goals2 = 0 | goals3 = 14 | goals4 = 33 | goals5 = 18 | goals6 = 14 | goals7 = 7 | nationalyears1 = | nationalteam1 = | nationalcaps1 = | nationalgoals1 = | managerclubs1 = | manageryears1 = | club-update = | ntupdate = }} '''Keith Webber''' (5 January 1943 – 26 September 1983) was a Welsh footballer.
==Playing career== Webber began his playing days with Barry Town before signing for Everton as a 17-year-old in 1960.<ref name="robins">{{cite book | first=Gareth M|last= Davies|last2= Jones|first2= Peter | title=The Racecourse Robins | year=1999|page=324|publisher=Davies and Jones|isbn=0-9524950-1-5}}</ref> He scored on his first-team debut for the Goodison Park club in a Football League Cup tie against Walsall,<ref name="robins"/> but he was to make just four appearances in The Football League for them before moving to Brighton & Hove Albion in April 1963 in a £9,000 deal.<ref name="robins"/>
After a year at Brighton and then a two-year stint at Wrexham, Webber moved to Doncaster Rovers in June 1966 before joining Chester in June 1969.<ref name="robins"/> In his two-year spell at Sealand Road, Webber helped Chester reach the 1970 Welsh Cup final before losing to Cardiff City, a fate he had also suffered when playing for Wrexham five years earlier.<ref name="robins"/>
Webber ended his professional career with Stockport County in 1971–72 before going on to play in Non-League football for Morecambe, Northwich Victoria, Oswestry Town and Rhyl.<ref name="robins"/>
==Work and Death== After finishing his professional playing career, Webber became an insurance salesman and then the licensee of the Grosvenor Arms pub in Handbridge, Chester and later the White Lion in Buckley.<ref name="robins"/> Unfortunately, ill health left to him leaving the licensed trade and he took up a position with a finance company.<ref name="robins"/>
Webber died aged just 40 from a heart attack at his home in Marford, Wrexham<ref name="robins"/> while watching television on 26 September 1983.<ref name="what">{{cite web|url= http://cards.littleoak.com.au/rip_notices/rip_1980.html|title= Death Notices 1983|publisher = Nigel's Webspace| accessdate=2009-05-29}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Webber, Keith}} Category:1943 births Category:1983 deaths Category:Footballers from Cardiff Category:Welsh men's footballers Category:English Football League players Category:Men's association football forwards Category:Barry Town United F.C. players Category:Everton F.C. players Category:Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players Category:Wrexham A.F.C. players Category:Doncaster Rovers F.C. players Category:Chester City F.C. players Category:Stockport County F.C. players Category:Morecambe F.C. players Category:Northwich Victoria F.C. players Category:Oswestry Town F.C. players Category:Rhyl F.C. players Category:20th-century Welsh sportsmen