Career
He is now regarded as the best goalkeeper to wear the colours of "Black and Amber" and his a legend at the club Rodney Slack, United"s best and most popular goalkeeper of their first non-League era, was born in 1940. His speciality was saving penalties, one season stopping seven out of nine faced.
When United gained admittance to the Football League in 1970, however, manager Bill Leivers released him as he considered he would not quite be up to standard.
Bizarrely Slack found out about his sacking by accidentally knocking that days paper out a letter box, picked it up and on the back page was, "SLACK SACKED!" before he"d even been told by Cambridge United. Rodney went on to become president of the Cambridgeshire Colts.
Leicester City
Understudy to Gordon Banks
Queens Park Rangers
He was there for 1 and a half years
Cambridge United.