Richard Sloley

Richard W. Sloley was an English amateur footballer.

Career

Sloley played as an inside right in the Football League for Aston Villa. He was capped by England at amateur level and represented Great Britain at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
After the Olympics, Sloley joined Ealing Association, becoming Club president. In 1928, Sloley proposed a new amateur club, Argonauts, to be an English version of the Scottish Queen's Park. The Argonauts had an arrangement to play at Wembley Stadium, which was otherwise only being used for internationals and the FA Cup final, but, after the Argonauts' application to join the Football League was refused, Sloley arranged for Ealing to move to Wembley, as an encouragement for amateur football as a whole. The move was not a success and the Argonauts were subsequently abandoned.

Personal life

Sloley was a Cambridge Blue and as of 1911, was working as an assistant schoolmaster in Guildford. He served as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps during the First World War.

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