Philip Benjamin Neil Frederick "Phil" Parkes is a former football goalkeeper. He was a pupil at Dormston School from September 1961 to December 1965. Beginning his football career at Walsall, turning professional in 1968, he made nearly 100 appearances in the Black Country before moving to London, signing for Queens Park Rangers for �15,000 in June 1970. His QPR debut was on Saturday 22 August 1970 in a 3?1 defeat at home to Leicester City. Parkes was part of the QPR team that reached the last eight of the FA Cup in 1974 and were League runners-up to Liverpool in 1976. Many observers consider that side, managed by Dave Sexton, the finest team never to have won the League. His club career at QPR spanned 344 league appearances. He gained his only England cap during this period, against Portugal in 1974. Parkes was sold to West Ham United in 1979 for �565,000, a world record for a goalkeeper at the time. It is reported that Sexton, who by then was manager of Manchester United, put in six bids for the player but saw them all turned down. It was only the half million pound bid from West Ham United that QPR chairman Jim Gregory could not resist. 

August 8th, 1950 in Wolverhampton (Age 73)