Career
Farmer was a product of Stoke City"s youth system after being found playing amateur football in his local town of Biddulph. He broke into the first team in 1966 at the age of eighteen and is therefore one of the youngest keepers ever to play for the club He however resisted the chances to switch club"s and remained loyal to Stoke providing useful back-up to Banks.
Farmer reclaimed his starting spot in 1972-1973 as Banks was involved in a car crash which left him blind in one eye and as a result had to retire from playing top flight football.
He played regularly for three seasons until another England "keeper, Peter Shilton joined Stoke in November 1974 for a then world record fee for a goalkeeper of £325,000. Farmer then joined the club that Shilton had come from, Leicester City, and played twice for the "Foxes" before returning to Stoke.
He left Stoke at the end of the 1974-1975 and went on to play for Northwich Victoria.
