Career
Palmer spent 16 years with Wolves, playing 495 times for the club in total. A Wolves fan throughout his childhood, he joined as an apprentice in July 1970 and turned professional on his seventeenth birthday the following year. After remaining in the reserves over the next two seasons, he made his senior debut on in the 3rd/4th Place Play Office against Arsenal.
The right-back retained his place through the rest of the 1973-1974 season at the expense of Gerry Taylor, which culuminated in winning the League Cup after a 2-1 victory over Manchester City at Wembley.
He stuck with the club after relegation in 1982, winning promotion back at the first attempt. However, after another relegation, Palmer left Molineux for Burnley in November 1984.
His stay at Burnley was short-lived though, as he stayed for just over a year, during which time Burnley were relegated to the Fourth Division for the first time in their history, before rejoining Wolves, under his old manager Bill McGarry, in December 1985 in a campaign that saw the club relegated to the fourth tier for the first time in their history. After a solitary final appearance in the Fourth Division in September 1986, Palmer retired to join the police force, where he was employed for 23 years until retirement in 2009.
Palmer now lives in Codsall, near Wolverhampton.
