Wilf NixonWilfred Nixon was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Fulham as a goalkeeper.Personal lifeNixon served as a private in the Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment during the First [World War]. He was captured by the German [Army (German Empire)|Germans] in Oppy on 28 April 1917 and was then interned as a prisoner of war. Nixon died at home in Gateshead on 8 April 1985, at the age of 102.