fullname years death_date clubs caps birth_place goals nationalteam position nationalcaps nationalyears birth_date article_title name nationalgoals
daniel robert clapton 1953 -- 1962 1962 -- 1963 1963 -- 1970 16 june 1986 arsenal luton town corinthians -lrb- sydney -rrb- 207 10 stepney , london , london 25 0 england winger 1 1958 22 july 1934 danny clapton
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danny clapton

daniel robert `` danny '' clapton -lrb- 22 july 1934 -- 16 june 1986 -rrb- was an english footballer .
born in stepney , london , clapton first started out as an amateur with leytonstone before joining arsenal in august 1953 .
he made his debut in a 1-0 win over chelsea on december 25 , 1954 , and by the end of the 1954-55 he was arsenal 's first choice right-winger , taking arthur milton 's place .
he became a near ever-present for arsenal for the next four seasons -lrb- aside from 1957-58 , where he was out injured for a third of the season -rrb- , helping arsenal to third place in 1958-59 , their highest league position in six years .
clapton was also called up for england , playing a solitary international match against wales on november 26 , 1958 at villa park , which finished 2-2 .
arsenal played a friendly match later that day against juventus at highbury , and clapton played in that match as well , alongside team-mate jack kelsey , who earlier in the day had been in goal for wales .
after arsenal signed jackie henderson and alan skirton , clapton had to be content with sharing the right wing position in 1959-60 and 1960-61 .
arsenal then signed johnny macleod in the summer of 1961 , and clapton lost his place in the side altogether -lrb- only playing five matches in 1961-62 -rrb- and was sold to luton town in september 1962 .
in all he played 225 matches for arsenal , scoring 27 goals .
clapton 's spell at luton was uneventful ; he later moved to australia to play for sydney side corinthians .
he returned to england in 1970 and later ran a pub in hackney .
his younger brother dennis was also a footballer , but never achieved the same success , making only five league appearances for arsenal and northampton town .
he died aged 51 , in 1986 .
